Partly Due to the down Turn Many Ski Companies Will Be Cutting down Their Number of Catered Chalets
In light of the recession snowboarding sales lowered this season.
This is even with strong early season holiday reservations and first class snow conditions.
This reduction in vacationers follows six years of sequential growth in the ski industry, and the numbers came down from one million in 2008 to 950000 last ski season.
This is partly due to vacationers giving the season a miss, whilst additional snowboarders who would generally take two or more snowboarding holidays, only had one.
A fall of 15% was felt by the independent travel sector and some no frills airlines slashing the amount of airplanes to several cities.
Some ski holiday package operators also saw the reservations going down by about the same amount.
Even so, the top tour operators market share rested at a healthy 73% and the Alps in France remained the most popular destination with around 37% of skiing holidays.
Because of this several operators cut the amount of luxury chalets they run this year.
Luxury catered chalets will surely see a drop in holiday makers as a catered ski chalet costs the operator more in terms of chalet chefs and lease when it is unoccupied.
It seems unlikely we shall witness the last minute deals which were on the market this season.
Prices are in all likelihood to go up, prices probably won’t increase much.
