Three of the world’s seven largest indoor snow centres have opened in China in just the past year and two of these feature indoor gondola lifts. The lifts, at Guangdong Sunac Snow World which opened last summer and at Xiangjiang Joy City Snow World are slow moving and were designed mostly for sight-seers rather than skiers and snowboarders, but they
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A massive new indoor snow centre in China, due to officially open next month, has had its ‘soft opening’. Located in the Southern city of Guangzhou, population around 15 million, the centre 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,
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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
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Plans to build Britain’s biggest indoor snow centre are apparently still live nearly 20 years after the plans for the development at Great Blakenham, near Ipswich, were first announced, and a decade or so since it was assumed they had been shelved. The SnOasis proposals are for a multi-winter-sport indoor snow and sports complex including what It a 415 metre
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The largest indoor ski centre in Chongqing, China has opened. Jihua Park is located in the city’s Liangjiang New Area development. Built on a 22,000 square metre site, the indoor snow area is 13,000 square metres, putting it in the 20 largest in the world to date. The snow area is maintained at a constant temperature of -3 to -5℃
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One of the world’s largest, and most impressive yet, indoor snow centres is due to open later this year in China’s southerly Hunan province. “Xiangjiang Joy City Snow World” will have a 30,000 square metre indoor snow park – placing it in the world top five in size, of more than 90 indoor snow centres that are now open on
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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
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A “snowboarding vicar” has set himself the challenge of boarding at all six 6 UK indoor snow centres in one day in a charity fundraiser. The Reverend Steven Young, Vicar of St Michael and All Angels, Mill Hill, will aim to complete his 478 mile odyssey on Tuesday, January 26th, starting off at The Snow Centre at Hemel Hempstead with
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