In Part Due to the Global Recession Several Ski Companies Will Be Cutting Their Number of Catered Chalets
Posted on 08 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: Lots Of Travel Resources, World Of Leisure
Partly due to the credit crunch snowboarding reservations lowered this season.
Even with very good early on bookings coupled with great snow.
This fall in snowboarders follows 5 winters of continuous growth within the skiing industry, and the numbers reduced from 1.25. 1.3 million in 2008/9 to 900000 last season.
Partly due to holiday makers giving their annual ski trip a miss, and additional snowboarders who’d commonly have two ski vacations, merely had one.
Sales for the independent travel sector fell by 15% with several cheap airlines reducing the amount of their routes to certain airports.
However tour operators also saw their bookings falling by about the same amount.
Notwithstanding, the top 6 operators market share rested at 70% and France carried on as the most popular holiday destination with about 37% of the skiing market.
Because of this a lot of tour operators cut down the amount of luxury ski chalets they rent this year.
Catered chalets in particular are going to witness a drop in holiday makers in light of the fact that a catered chalet costs the operator more in terms of chalet chefs and lease when it is empty.
It seems unlikely we shall see the last minute ski deals Chamonix that were up for grabs this season.
Prices are likely to go up, they probably won’t go up substantially.
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