In Light of the Recession Many Skiing Companies Will Be Cutting down Their Number of Catered Ski Chalets
Thanks to the credit crunch ski occupancies fell this season.
Even with cracking early on bookings along with brilliant skiing.
These falls in no.s follows on from 6 seasons of growth within the ski industry, and the numbers reduced from 1.15 million in 2008/9 to under a million last season.
This is in part due to holiday makers giving their annual snowboarding trip a miss, whilst other skiers who’d usually take two or more ski vacations, just had the one.
The independent travel sector fell by 15% with several low priced airlines reducing the no. of airplanes to certain airports.
Tour operators saw the numbers decreasing by around 15%.
Even so, the top 6 operators share of the market rested at 72% and the Alps in France retained its position as the most visited ski destination with nearly 40% of the market.
Due to this several ski operators slashed the amount of catered chalets they lease this coming season.
The luxury ski holiday market especially will see a drop in numbers as a luxury catered chalet incurs more costs with regards to hosts and chefs and rent when it is not sold.
Therefore it’s unlikely that we shall witness the last minute special offers which were on the market last winter.
And prices are expected to increase, costs probably won’t rise much.
