The sport of snow kayaking, essentially racing down a snow slope in a kayak, has an illustrious history. Believed to have been invented by whitewater kayakers in the Alps as a winter alternative when the rivers were frozen under snow, the first recorded official race was held in the Austrian resort of Lienz. The first Snow Kayaking World Championships were
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Reports from Norway indicate that the huge new indoor snow centre under construction at Lørenskog outside Oslo, is, or soon will be, wind and water tight with walls and roof completed. The new ski hall will include 40,000 square metres of indoor snow space, making it the world’s second-biggest at present after the recently opened centre in Harbin, China. The
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Bart Dohmen has been appointed CEO of Unlimited Snow Development, part of the Unlimited Leisure Group. Unlimited Snow Development has a new project opening in the first-half of 2019 and many other projects in the pipeline, and is constantly enlarging its team. Kees Albers, founder and Chairman of Unlimited Leisure Group, said: “With his long experience in management roles in
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ski~mojo has launched a dedicated fitter service to assist at UK indoor snow slopes ski~mojo, a ski support that helps people with knee, leg and hip issues stay on the slopes for longer, has established a number of official representatives across the UK. They are available to help potential customers try and test the ski~mojo support at indoor snow slopes, before
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The world’s biggest indoor snow play park is to open next year A giant new mall in Abu Dhabi, which will host the world’s biggest indoor snow play park, is set to be completed by the end of 2020. Reem Mall, which has a $1.2bn price tag, was first announced in 2015, and work commenced on site in 2017. Artist’s renditions
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A new refrigeration system is helping an indoor snow centre dramatically cut power bills and CO² emissions Snozone Milton Keynes, one of the UK’s six indoor snow centres, has improved usage, profitability and functionality, whilst cutting power bills and CO² emissions, by installing a new refrigeration system. The UK’s leading refrigeration manufacturer, Star Refrigeration, have helped Snozone save 56% on
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The UK’s seventh indoor snow centre has got the go ahead from planners The operators of The Snow Centre Hemel Hempstead, London’s closest real-snow indoor skiing and snowboarding destination, are to run a second facility at Swindon. Full planning consent has now been given to the long-standing proposals for the facility, with 15,800m² of indoor snow space within Swindon’s North
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Unlimited Snow has won the WSTOPS Award for “Best Foreign Design of Indoor Snow/Ice Park” in China In order to organize the 2022 Winter Olympics, discover and cultivate outstanding brands of ice and snow industry, and provide more detailed and accurate information for industrial development, the third Winter Sports Tops Awards (WSTOPS) expert review meeting met in Beijing . The
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SnowWorld is taking overs more indoor snow centres in the Netherlands and Germany SnowWorld, which already runs two major indoor snow centres in the Netherlands (and has plans for more in France, Italy and Spain) has announced it is taking over the operations of another Dutch centre: SnowPlanet in Amsterdam, as well as Alpenpark Neuss in Düsseldorf, Germany. The company
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