The Outdoor Industry Demands Climate Policy
We encourage all businesses working in the snowsports industry to join this campaign, organised by the lobbying group Protect Our Winters, asking policy makers to catch up and produce policies that support increased sustainability while penalising bad practices. These demands will be presented in an open letter to European policy makers ahead of COP27. A...
5 Things We Learned from The Ski Club of Great Britain’s 2022 Survey
Last week I attended another excellent edition of LISTEX (London International Snowsports Trade Exchange) at The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead. The highlight was hosting the sustainability session. It was evident that this topic needs so much more time as there was an endless supply of questions from the audience at the end. Credit to...
The Ski Podcast offers to become new sponsor of the ‘Emirates Air Line’ gondola in London
[September 2022 update] Very disappointing to see that The Ski Podcast was turned down in favour of the possibly-most-boring-name-ever ‘IFS Cloud Cable Car’… —– I was hugely disappointed to see that Transport for London have failed to find a new sponsor for the ‘Emirates Air Line’ gondola in London. Potential new sponsor: The Ski Podcast...
5 Takeaways from the 2022 International Report on Snow and Mountain Tourism
The 14th edition of this annual report was unveiled by creator Laurent Vanat earlier this year at the International Mountain Planet event in Grenoble. The 2019/20 ski season was considered the worst of the millennium, with only 319.5 million skier-days recorded worldwide. However the limits in 2020/21, reduced this even further to 201.2 million skier-days....
Five Easy Things Ski Companies Can Do Today To Promote Sustainability
This time last week, I was busy hosting a lively sustainability session at the spring 2022 edition of LISTEX, organised by the Mountain Trade Network. Consumers want sustainable travel Hopefully the session was valuable for those who attended. We covered topics as diverse as train travel to wind power, EVs to upcycled clothing, but the...
The 7 Best ‘Ski’ Themed Numberplates
“What’s in a numberplate? A vehicle with any other matriculation would drive as sweet.” Shakespeare definitely did not write these words. But if he had seen these ski-themed numberplates, and had been a keen skier and a worse writer, then there’s the small possibility he might have. Rosiere These are all very well, but we’re...