The Top Ten Fastest Growing French Ski Resorts
Montagne Leaders have recently launched their latest look at the French ski industry, analysing all the data from the 2013/14 winter season. Among the many statistics available, one of the more interesting was an insight into those resort that are reversing the trend and are growing fast. The Fastest Growing French Ski Resorts The following...
Five Nuggets of Snowsports Marketing We Noticed This Week
We find them so you don’t have to. Here are five nuggets of snowsports marketing we’ve seen recently… 1. Why Serre Chevalier should make shorter videos This cute video was published by Serre Chevalier this week. It starts with a spoof of Serre Che employees mucking around: pisteurs dynamite a snowman; snow groomers race each...
The Top 40 Ski Resorts on Facebook (Relatively)
We have previously looked on Skipedia at which ski resorts in France, Austria and Italy and across Europe have the most Facebook fans. But how useful are absolute figures? Surely you would expect a resort with more visitors to have more Facebook fans? We thought we’d look more closely at the figures to find out who is...
19 Social Media and Digital Facts about Val Thorens
Val Thorens has had a remarkable year, winning a number of awards, most significantly ‘Ski Resort of the Year’ at the World Ski Awards. When we interviewed Gregory Guzzo director of the tourist office in December 2012 about their rebrand to ‘Val Thorens United’ it was evident that this was a resort with a plan....
Folie Douce bring more ‘sweet madness’ to Megeve
It was in 1969 when Luc Reversade, a former ski instructor, founded the first La Folie Douce in Val d’Isere. The restaurant and bar soon built up a reputation as the place in Val to go for apres-ski. As has been clear for years at the Krazy Kangaruh and Moosevirt in St Anton, apres-ski doesn’t have to...
Val Thorens engage via social media with #WantToSki campaign
Some images capture your attention more than others, and this unusual photo we saw on Facebook this morning was one of those. Val Thorens use #WantToSki hashtag The picture piqued our interest, so we took a look at Twitter to see what was happening around that #WantToSki hashtag. It turns out Val Thorens have built a...