I’ll Show You How To Get Your Hands On Some Bargain Ski Holidays This Winter

When doing the research for this piece, I found a ski holiday business that offers just what you are after. If you are young and laid back, this would be the cheapest method of arranging your ski holiday. Just to put you in the picture I run my own site selling catered chalet holidays, but [...]

Tahoe ski resorts looking for local employees

Tahoe ski resorts looking for local employees By Kara LaPoint, Reno Gazette-Journal It’s only September, but the time has come for those seeking resort employment this ski season to start thinking about winter. “We’re at that transition point, where summer operations are winding down, and we’re looking ahead to winter season,” said Kirt Zimmer, director [...]

H2b Visa ? Key Things Seasonal Workers Must Know

If you wish to travel to America and work over the summer in a hotel, theme park or on a cruise ship, or if you want to work in a restaurant or as a ski instructor over the winter – then the H-2B visa category is for you. The H2B working visa is a nonimmigrant [...]

How to Make a Living as a Ski Bum

So your favorite thing to do is ski, and your least favorite thing to do is go to work. And of course you are under the impression that there is no possible way to combine both and make a decent living. Sure, you can become a ski lift operator and live in a small apartment [...]

Vail Valley Voices: Recovery could be prolonged

Vail Valley Voices: Recovery could be prolonged Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the Vail Homeowners Association monthly report for August. The Daily publishes weekly excerpts from the association, which keeps a close eye on economic and political trends in and outside of the town. Read more on Vail Daily

Ski Runs Close Early In Andorra – Worst Season For 20 Years

After investing millions of Euros in their ski facilities, popular ski country Andorra has been left reeling from her worst season for twenty years, with initial official suggestions of a ten per cent drop in tourists this year, and private ones of closer to 40 per cent. The season was so bad that it [...]

Learn to Ski – Rising to the Challenge

With so many satellite cable and terrestrial television channels available, it’s hard to miss downhill slalom or ski jumping coverage and absorb the electric atmosphere that radiates from spectacular winter sporting events. If regular yearly coverage leaves you yearning for more then you can look forward to the Winter Olympics, which are a four-yearly reminder [...]

Autumn Snow Brings 2008 Ski Season Hope

The summer weather in northern Europe was a strange mix, with different countries experiencing greatly differing weather patterns. In southern Europe Mediterranean countries such as Greece saw temperatures soar over the hundred farenheit mark, while in Britain floods caused misery for hundreds of thousands of people. The floods affected large parts of England [...]

Ski Resorts Fear Greenhouse Will Melt Away 2008 Tourists

With ski holidays increasing in popularity over the last twenty years, Andorra has been increasing her visitor numbers to over ten million per annum for ski holidays and happily investing for the future to ensure she remains as one of Europe’s top ski destinations but that came to a screeching halt this year when the [...]

What A Beautiful Tan! Did You Just Ski Aspen?

Ski tans are in and skiing is big business. Last year, just the State of Colorado enjoyed a record 12.53 million skiing days and took in some 2.5 billion dollars, and they are expecting even more this skiing season. That is big and still growing. This winter there will be millions of healthy, athletic, beautiful [...]

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