A group has been launched that aims to re-open the only indoor snow centre in the country. Snow Factor, located at XSite Braehead near Glasgow closed around six months ago in late 2022 after the company that ran it went into liquidation last year.  The rest of the mall around it remain open. Snow Factor opened on April 6th, 2006

The first ice rink, complete with a small real snow indoor play area, has opened in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad And Tobago. Christened the Ice Caribbean Entertainment District (or ‘ICED’ for short), the facility is located at  La Romaine. A sizable crowd are reported to have gathered outside the facility ahead of its scheduled opening. The ICED building has

A large indoor snow centre has opened as part of a huge new mall in Wuhan, Hubei Province, Central China. Dubbed “the first urban centre indoor ski resort in central China” the ‘Wushangmeng Era Hot Snow Miracle’ is a four-season ice and snow era located on the 8th floor of the mall which, although its ground footprint is 102,500 square

Axis Leisure Management has announced that it’s working on one of the planet’s flagship new indoor snow centres, currently known as Snow World Shanghai. The building, described by Axis as, “one of the largest and most technologically advanced indoor snow and ice venues in the world” is currently scheduled for opening in Q4, 2023, the company says. According to Axis

A small indoor snow centre has opened in Indonesia, with snow provided by one of the world’s leading manufacturers of conventional snowmaking systems, TechnoAlpin. The Italian company also makes ‘all-weather’ machines for use at outdoor areas where natural snow cover can’t be guaranteed and three of these SnowFactory machines are in use at the new Trans Snow World Surabaya. Trans

A new renewable-energy powered indoor snow centre planned to be built near Sydney has unveiled its final architectural designs. The exterior architectural designs for Winter Sports World, which is proposed to be built at Penrith in New South Wales, were created by boutique Sydney architecture firm Collins & Turner, who describe it as, “a snow cloud above a hill”. In

A huge indoor snow centre in Moscow is to be demolished after major structural flaws were found. The SNEZH.COM slope at Krasnogorsk, just northeast of the city’s limits, was built at a rumoured cost of about $100 million and opened in March 2008. It was closed in late 2021 after failing a long list of health and safety checks by

China’s Sunac Group, which operate the three largest indoor snow centres in the world, has soft  opened a seventh centre this month and already received more than 26,000 guests. It will have its grand opening on 28th October. The new WS Bonski indoor centre Wuhan is not one of the biggest with just over 15,000 square metres of indoor snow

The energy crisis in Europe resulting from the Ukraine War has led to concerns about high-energy using non-essential businesses like indoor snow centres being able to operate this winter. Germany is one of the three largest operators on indoor snow centres along with The Netherlands and the UK and the country’s centres have begun clarifying whether they will be able

The 2021-2022 edition of the China Ski Industry White Book compiled each year by Wu Bin (Benny Wu) reports that China now has 42 indoor snow centres – about a third of the world total. “The indoor ski resort business has exploded in China, which is the most noteworthy phenomenon in the domestic ski industry in recent years,” The only