A new complex, Boulevard Riyadh City, has opened as part of  a festival known as Riyadh Season 2021. However Boulevard Riyadh City will not end when Riyadh Season 2021 does and will instead become a permanent entertainment hub in the Saudi capital. Boulevard Riyadh City covers about 900,000 square meters and contains nine areas, each with its own set of

Singapore’s only indoor snow centre, Snow City, has opened the country’s first ‘Ice Hotel Gallery’ experience offering the chance to see, if not actually stay in, sdome of the facilities found at ice hotels in Scandinavia. Like most countries travel opportunities to cold weather destinations still look limited this winter and one media outlet described the opportunity to stay in

Florida’s first snow themed park, Snowcat Ridge, which debuted last autumn despite the impact of the pandemic, re-opens in October for its second winter season and has new attractions promised. Snowcat Ridge’s main attraction is outdoor tubing hill with dry ski slope surface, some 60 feet (17 metres) high and 400 feet (122 metres) long, but there’s an arctic igloo

Big SNOW American Dream, North America’s only indoor real-snow ski and snowboard centre, has announced it will be staying closed into the new year. The centre, located in New Jersey, was damaged by an internal fire high up in the facility in the early hours of 25th September.  Nobody was harmed in the blaze.  It was initially hoped the resulting

The world’s second largest indoor ski area, Guangzhou Snow World in China, is reported to have had 6,500 skiers visits in a single day in May, believed to be a world record for indoor snow centres. 6,500 skiers is also more than all but the very largest conventional ski areas are likely to see in a day, and more than

Norway’s huge SNØ indoor snow centre which opened shortly before the pandemic has been highlighting the fact that despite the image of indoor snow centres needing to use a lot of energy to keep the snow in shape year-round, it is actually a so-called ‘plus building’ – generating more green energy than the power it needs to operate. The surplus

The Big Snow indoor snow centre is making headline in the US as it continues to offer a cool, snowy interior whilst the outside world bakes in extreme heat. The state of New Jersey, where the snow centre is located, is in the middle of what’s officially termed a ‘heatwave’ with temperatures over 90F (32C) for more than three consecutive

A Dutch design company has released its concept for redeveloping a former aircraft carrier into a super yacht. The company’s plans for the 60 year old former French Naval ship would see the boat’s large surface area switch to ‘interchangeable decks’ which could include a ski slope, as well as a golf course. Design company Mitsi Studio are behind the

A planned new indoor snow centre, Winter Sports World, proposed for Penrith near Sydney in Australia will be entirely powered by a 1.2 megawatt power supply of photovoltaic solar cells on the roof, the team behind the project say. That’s the equivalent of powering 220 homes with photovoltaic panels, feeding into an on-site battery storage facility.The $300 million development will

The Italian-headquartered snowmaking company Demaclenko has created a new all-weather snowmaking machine which the company says offers, “…an unprecedented solution for efficient and powerful snowmaking when it’s not freezing.” Working with the Austrian-based company 3CON, a specialist in interior production systems, Demaclenko has christened their technology ‘Snow4Ever 200’ and states, “What’s revolutionary about Demaclenko’s technology is that real technical snow,