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Issue September 2008 Author Katie Bailey Volume 47-5 Page 45 Subject Environment It's not easy being green, especially when you're little. Search "sustainable" and "ski" on the Internet and you find a wide selection of celebratory articles on what the Aspens and Whistlers of the world are doing to green their operations, but not a...
Issue September 2008 Author Samantha Rufo Volume 47-5 Page 51 Subject Marketing In today's competitive business environment, it's more important than ever to discover new ideas. And where better to find them than in your colleagues' playbooks? Here we highlight resorts that used a unique approach in their m...
Issue July 2008 Author Linda Goodspeed Volume 47-4 Page 16 Subject Business, Energy In China the character for "crisis" can mean either chaos or opportunity. In North America, most winter resorts see "opportunity" rather than crisis in rising gas and fuel prices. "I'm an optimist," says John Stultz, VP of sa...
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Issue July 2008 Author Jim Spring Volume 47-4 Page 38 Subject Marketing, Public Relations/ Publicity, Media Lindsey Vonn returned home to Utah this spring with about as much fanfare as the return of a Monarch butterfly to the mountains near her home in Park City. The world's best woman skier, winner of this y...
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Issue July 2008 Author Peter Blais Volume 47-4 Page 42 Subject Area Management, Business In a country that seems to favor big operations over the little guy, small ski areas have to be at their nimblest and craftiest in order to survive. Here's what some shrewd operators are doing to keep the cash registers r...
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Issue May 2008 Author Katie Bailey Volume 47-3 Page 84 Subject Safety, Terrain Park At the start of the 2007-08 season, terrain park safety was red-hot news. A major guest injury court case involving Summit at Snoqualmie, Wash., had reached a verdict that awarded $14 million to the plaintiff-the now-famous Salvini case-and the res...
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Issue May 2008 Author Jeff Harbaugh Volume 47-3 Page 67 Subject Business, Finance, Research View this article in pdf format. Click Here To Order...
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Issue March 2008 Author Nicole Voth Volume 47-2 Page 43 Subject Business, Personnel Issues With all the change occurring in our industry and the world right now, change is a big topic. So big, in fact, that the trick is to figure out what part of change to focus on. Here, we're going to zero in on what drives change in our industr...
Issue March 2009 Author Katie Bailey, Elizabeth Eren and Rick Kahl Volume 48-2 Page 48 Subject New Products Download the article in pdf format. Click Here To Order...