Saudi Arabia has submitted a bid to host the 2029 Asian Winter Games at a ski area it plans to build in the Sarawat mountains, about 50 kilometres (31 miles) east of the Red Sea coast. However work on the ski area has not yet commenced. Trojena Sports City has been promoted as an “all year ski village” but it

The UK’s six indoor snow centres are proving a haven as temperatures top 40 Celcius in England as the climate crisis continues to take hold.   ITV made a film of skiers at the Chill Factore centre near Manchester switching from T shorts and shorts to thermals as they experienced a 40 degree drop in temperature from the high 30s

The long-awaited indoor snow park at Reem Mall in Abu Dhabi will finally open its doors before the end of summer, according to the mall’s Instagram account. The centre, is now known as ‘Snow Abu Dhabi’ and “will be the perfect getaway for the UAE summer,” the caption on Instagram declared.  A specific opening date has yet to be announced

Social media has got very excited at billionaire Kim Kardashian taking to the slopes of Big Snow, the only indoor snow ski and boarding centre in North America. The 41 year-old moth-of-four posted a TikTok video of herself on the slopes, winning positive reaction to her skiing skills and the fact she was skiing in a crop top. “It turns

The Sunac Group, which runs the three largest indoor snow centres in the world and a portfolio of more indoor snow centres than any other operator worldwide, has had its stock suspended from trading after it failed to post its results. Having reported profits of $3.7 billion in 2019, an increase of 57% from the previous year, it has recently

The Big Snow indoor snow centre in New Jersey has re-opened after eight-months of closure following fire damage last September. “We are excited to reopen Big SNOW to guests this Memorial Day Weekend,” said Trish McLeod, Director of Resorts Marketing & Sales, SNOW Partners. “We thank our visitors and team for their patience as we’ve worked diligently to resume the

A major indoor snow centre planned near Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales will enter its Pre-Application Consultation (PAC) period next month with the planning application to be submitted once that is completed, the team behind the complex has announced. They say that the all year round indoor resort at Rhydycar West will include one of Europe’s longest indoor snow slopes,

Alpine-X, the company that has been planning an indoor snow centre in Virginia for several years and has recently added the famous alpine ski racer Bode Miller to their team, have announced plans to build two more indoor snow centres, this time in Texas. Alpine-X, who have always said that their intention is to build around 20 indoor snow centres

Saudi Arabia have announced plans to build a ski-resort in the desert as part of the Kingdom’s Neom megacity project. The ski resort, named ‘Trojena’, will contain a “folded vertical village” and a three-kilometre man-made lake. “Trojena will redefine mountain tourism for the world by creating a place based on the principles of ecotourism, highlighting our efforts to preserve nature

Reports from China, where the focus is on in imminent Winter Olympics and Paralympics around capital Beijing, indicate that a new “world’s largest indoor snow centre”, including an indoor Olympic standard ski run, will be completed in the country’s second city, Shanghai, before the end of 2022. Now known as WintaStar Shanghai, the spectacular project was first unveiled as Winterland