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knowledge winter breaks
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Flexible options
While the traditional seven and 14-night
holidays still dominate the winter sports
market, operators continue to offer more
flexible options such as ski weekends and
more unusual durations.
Most ski weekends are inevitably offered in
European resorts due to the short flying time
and range of flights to key gateway airports.
France specialist Lagrange offers a range of
short ski breaks, as do big players such as
Crystal and Inghams.
There is also a growing range of more
flexible holidays to long-haul ski destinations.
Neilson has introduced flexible dates and du-
Verbier, in Switzerland, is among resorts added by Thomson for this winter rations to Canada and the US, while Inghams
has 10 and 11-night ski trips to Canada.
New destinations Seefeld in Austria and new chalets in Finland
Even though capacity has been cut for this and France. DIY skiing
winter, many of the leading operators have Tui Ski’s major brands have all added The decision by major operators to cut ca-
introduced resorts for the coming season. resorts. Crystal has included Hinterglemm pacity has enabled some leading accommo-
Inghams has added the Lapland resort of and Itter in Austria, France’s La Toussuire dation-only players to move into the market
Salla offering learn to ski and snowboard plus Mammoth in the US. Hinterglemm or expand their portfolio of ski properties.
packages alongside reindeer, husky and and La Toussuire have also been added by Hotels4U, owned by Thomas Cook, has
snowmobile safaris, and ice fishing. It has Thomson alongside Austria’s Berwang and launched its first ski programme for 2009-10
also introduced Tatras in Slovakia. Verbier in Switzerland, while First Choice’s with more than 100 properties including ho-
Eight high-altitude resorts in Switzerland new resorts are Valloire and Valmeinier in tels, apartments and chalets in destinations
have been included by Neilson, alongside France, and Winter Park in Colorado. such as Andorra, Austria, Bulgaria, France,
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