Indonesia, which was one of the first countries to get a (short-lived) indoor snow centre back in the early 1990s, now has indoor snow again. Trans Snow World opened on Sunday, March 24th in a shopping mall at Bekasi, a city of nearly three million people in West Java, and is located only a few hundred meters away from Bekasi
Read more
The world’s 5th longest indoor snow slope is due to open at Guangzhou in China on 15th June. The development, originally named ‘The Cultural Tourism City’ was initiated by the Wanda Group, the same company that built the world’s largest indoor snow centre (by snow area) in Harbin, Northeast China, which opened in 2017. Wanda has since been restructuring and
Read more
China has opened what is believed to be Asia’s first year-round ski tunnel for cross-country skiers. The new Beishan All-Weather Cross-Country Ski Resort in northeast China’s Jilin Province features a 1,308-metre indoor ski run and a 1,616-metre outdoor ski run. The facility is reported to have cost 990 million yuan (148 million U.S. dollars) to construct. The opening of the
Read more
Benny Wu, author of the authoritative guide to rapidly expanding ski industry, reports that there are now 26 indoor snow centres open across the country, a rise of five during 2018 compared to the 2017 figure. Several more are under construction. Mr Wu’s China Ski Industry White Book 2018, available to download via the download section at industry consultant Laurent
Read more
Malaysia’s Snowalk indoor snow centre, which first opened in 2011, has had a major upgrade and has doubled in size. Located in the futuristic I-City, ‘Snowalk’ was already home to igloos, ice houses, ice slides, snowmen, ice sculptures and millions of LED lights for special effects including recreating the aurora borealis. However the centre has been expanded to cover 4,500
Read more
indoorsnownews.com 