A dry ski slope at Folkestone in Kent on England’s south coast appears to have been saved from closure, although full details of its rescue have not yet been disclosed. The dry slope is part of the wider Folkestone Sports Centre, a popular leisure centre that shut unexpectedly last July after former operators Folkestone Sports Centre Trust ran into financial

The Dry Ski Slope Project at China’s Hebei Sport University has been a leading facility for ice and snow sports teaching and training since 2017. The ski run was scientifically designed, stretching 106 meters in length and 18 meters in width, with a slope gradient ranging from 9 to 18 degrees. This design not only meets the training needs of

Greece’s Minister of Tourism, Mrs. Olga Kefalogianni, has approved €9.9 million (€9,795,181.50 to be precise) in aid for upgrades to the country’s long-established Karpenisi Ski Centre.  The plan is to include a new dry ski slope. This project, which is part of Greece’s Development and Resilience Fund, is the fifth application approved under the Ministry’s program to upgrade ski resort

A new snow park has opened in Berlin, one of the first cities in the world to offer indoor snowsports almost a century ago. The German capital’s popular ‘Drop In’ Skater Hall has installed a state-of-the-art snowpack using a Slopetrax surface, supplied by Skitrax World, to deliver that real snowboard feeling! As its name suggests, Skatehalle Berlin is popular with

From November 7 to 17, Milan hosted the second edition of the Swiss Winter Village in the Porta Nuova district. The initiative by Switzerland Tourism was designed to offer a preview of the Swiss winter with skiing, Christmas markets, and snow activities. The star of the event was a Neveplast ski slope, set up in Piazza Gae Aulenti, where adults

The Snowtrax dry ski slope centre in Christchurch, Dorset, has announced that it’s hosting a ski show over three days from next Friday November 29th, through to Sunday December 1st 2024. The free-to-visit Southern Snow Show, at Snowtrax Alpine Activity Centre, will be a “winter sports extravaganza” its organisers promise. “We’re incredibly excited to bring the Southern Snow Show to

More information has been published on a new dry slope ski machine that has been installed at a location in Wiltshire, which we first reported on back in July. It transpires that the slope, which opened on the 17th, is the brainchild of Nick Jenkins, Moonpig founder, former BBC Dragon and Wiltshire local. He has had the machine imported and

A record will be set this winter with a new 68-dseater chairlift going into service in Austria capable of carrying more people up the slopes than any chairlift that has gone before it. The new Eibergbahn chairlift in the giant Austrian SkiWelt region above the resort town of Scheffau is also set to be largely energy self-sufficient thanks to solar