In Light of the down Turn Numerous Skiing Businesses Are Cutting Their Amount of Catered Chalets
Due to the credit crunch ski sales fell this season.
Even with strong early sales coupled with first class snow conditions.
These drops in no.s comes after 7 winters of sequential growth in the ski industry, and the numbers went down from 1.15 million in 2008/9 to 950000 last ski season.
This is partly due to holiday makers giving the season a miss, and additional skiers who would normally have 2 skiing holidays, only had one.
A fall of 15% was experienced by the independent travel sector with numerous no frills airlines slashing the no. of routes to some destinations.
Some tour operators saw the numbers falling by about the same amount.
Notwithstanding, the top operators market share continued at a healthy 73% and a France ski holiday retained its position as the top holiday destination with 37% of holidays.
Due to this many tour operators cut down the no. of ski chalets they operate this coming winter.
Luxury catered chalets will surely see a fall in no.s as a catered ski chalet costs the operator more with regards to staff and rental if it is unoccupied.
Therefore it is unlikely that we shall benefit from the last minute deals that were available this season.
And prices are likely to go up, they probably won’t increase substantially.
