New survey shows number of UK seasonal staff down by 69%
The cost of obtaining visas, work permits and other paperwork after Brexit has been blamed for a huge decrease in British seasonal staff working in the EU. A new survey – ‘Unlocking Travel’s Potential: The importance of UK-EU mobility for jobs and growth’ – commissioned by Seasonal Businesses in Travel (SBiT) in conjunction with ABTA...
ESF La Rosiere tackle ‘ski hosting’ ban by adding new social skiing service
There will be few readers of Skipedia unaware of the ongoing saga between the French authorities and British ski tour operators offering ‘ski hosting’ [for the uninitiated, try the following articles]. With the next stage in the appeal process not due until May 2014, ski hosting will not be offered this winter season. Crystal Holidays...
Crystal Ski Industry Report shows growth in market for first time in five years
Crystal Ski today released their annual ‘Ski Industry Report’ with positive news that the overall size of the market has grown for the first time in five years. Helped by ‘good snow at the right time’ growth was modest at 1%, however Simon Cross from Crystal Ski claimed that it showed “early signs of...
Twelve UK Ski Companies Already Using Facebook Timeline
With the Facebook Timeline deadline for brand Pages coming up on 30 March 2012, we’ve taken a look at how twelve of the UK’s leading ski tour operators are using Timeline so far. The companies are not necessarily the twelve largest. Indeed the UK’s largest ski company – Crystal Ski – has still to make the switch to Timeline....
Where are the ski companies of 1984 today?
Possibly our favourite Christmas present at Skipedia was an original 1984 copy of ‘The Sunday Times Guide to Ski and Apres-Ski’ (in association with Harpers & Queen, don’t you know…). Skiing was in a massive growth phase in 1984Written by Alastair Scott, who had been appointed skiing editor of The Sunday Times by Andrew Neil...