Plans for what has, in previous incarnations, been priced at a £200 million year-round leisure resort development in the Afan Valley of South Wales have been granted conditional planning approval. Originally unveiled as the Afan Valley Leisure Resort project in spring 2017, the centre was originally slated to offer a range of outdoor sports including white water rafting, rock climbing,

After lengthy planning, the go-ahead has now been given for the construction of the largest dry ski centre in Europe, covering 19,000 square metres. The new facility, built from scratch by the city of Lviv in Ukraine, will be the 4th biggest in the world by area, and the largest year-round facility. Three-larger slopes by area in Japan and South

One of Scotland and the UK’s largest dry ski centres, Glasgow Ski and Snowboard Centre, has replaced the surface of its main slope. The facility, on Bellahouston Park only minutes away from central Glasgow, originally opened in 1968, and was extended in 2008. Glasgow Ski Centre boasts three slopes: a 100m floodlit Dendix main slope, a 60m Dendix slope and

Quebec based venture Adrénaline Urbaine have announced plans for a new facility which will feature a year-round rooftop terrain park. The French Canadian boardsports specialists have been running a mobile skate park across Canada,  encouraging people to get outside and feel the “Adrenaline”. But now they plan a 25,000 sqft permanent base to open at Trois-Rivieres in Quebec, with the

Year-round freestyle ski centres with jumps at the bottom of the run are getting more and more common, some countries now having more than one. These facilities allow freestyle skiers and boarders to practice their tricks in the air whatever the weather, landing either in a pool of water (sometimes even a river) or on to a big air bag.

A new theme park planned for Malaysia will incorporate the world’s longest dry ski slope yet, at 1.2km (3/4 of a mile), descending 220 vertical metres. The new Escape Cameron Highlands theme park in Pahang will also be carbon-neutral and is set to open from 2023.  The “European-themed” park will cover 60 acres initially and be built in to a

Sunkid, the world’s leading manufacturer of moving carpet lifts and supplier to numerous dry ski slopes worldwide is celebrating 25 years in business. The company was conceived in 1996 initially to provide a solution to ski instructors and beginner skiers who had no ski lift really adapted to beginners. As a result everyone spent more time and energy on the

Dry slope produced Proslope have teamed up with four-time Winter Olympian Chemmy Alcott to create a special movable ramp system that can be installed at any existing slope. “Chemmy came to us needing a one stop resolution to her CDC Training teams requirements, and we were more than happy to lend our expertise,” said a Proslope spokesperson. The ramps (fabricated

World famous ski jumper Eddie The Eagle was guest of honour at the re-opening of the dry ski slope  at Folkestone Sports Centre in southern England. The former Olympic ski jumper, real name Michael Edwards, officially opened the centre’s refurbished ski slope which has a new surface and a new sprinkler system. Eddie, who competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics

The famous Italian ski resort of Livigno has added a terrain park with artificial slope surface as an attraction this summer. The Snowpark20 Freestyle area has been created using Neveplast material has begun operating in the centre of the village. It has been designed by the local Snowpark Twenty crew to enable both established and aspiring riders to learn and