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Europe has beautiful alpine villages with cobblestone streets, quaint mountain huts to enjoy goulash lunches and classic mountain scenery. North America has long groomed runs without crowds and extreme challenges, as well as a high service and accommodation standard unmatched elsewhere in the ski world. Plus, the build-your-own burgers are good. New Zealand, of course, has heli-skiing. So what does Australia offer? With the snow season opening this weekend, Ski 09’s experts spill the beans on the best of Australian snow, with the things they love about skiing and snowboarding Down Under.
1 Ski-in, ski-out accommodation is a feature available at most Australian snowfields but …Â Details
The tourism industry helped draw more than one million Australian visitors across the Tasman in the year to May, and it now wants extra marketing dollars for other markets.
Visitors arriving at Christchurch airport from Melbourne and Sydney were welcomed yesterday with a party hosted by top brass from Tourism New Zealand and Christchurch & Canterbury Tourism.
Australia is New Zealand’s biggest market, contributing about $1 billion in visitor spending a year.
In March, the Government gave an additional $2.5 million for promotional work in Australia. Such campaigns, combined with cheap airfares have drawn Australians to New Zealand for a holiday rather than traditional destinations such as Bali or Britain…Â Details
Snowboard Skiing – SKI SEASON OPENS IN CHILE
Resorts Equipped With US$10 Million Improvements
The wait is over for ski enthusiasts across the world. Following a weekend of heavy snows in the Andes, Chile’s ski resorts opened to the public this week. Resort owners expect Chilean skiers and snowboarders – as well as northern hemisphere tourists looking for “summer†skiing – to soon flock to Chile’s ski-mountains, which received more than US$10 million this year in improvements…. Details