Long-standing plans for a new multi outdoor activity centre including a dry ski slope for Preston in Northwest England have been given the backing of Preston City Council planning officers ahead of a vote by councillors. The plans, christened Pheonix Park, are for a large new water sports park on a 10.6 hectare site transforming Preston Docks include the dry
Read moreThe world’s former joint third largest ski area by area, at Nozawa Onsen in Japan, has announced that it’s expanding from 20,000 to 23,000 sqm this summer. It’s now the third largest without an equal. Like the largest, the 1.1km long 44,000 sqm summer dry slope at fellow Japanese ski area Kagura and the second largest, a 38,000 sqm, 800m
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In the second year of fundraising for Disability Snowsport UK (DSUK), a charity whose mission is to open snowsports to all, skiers and boarders booking their holidays through Igluski.com have donated almost ten times the sum raised in the previous, inaugural year of the partnership. At the time of booking, either online or via the Iglu Ski reservations team, those
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The construction of a summer ski training facility for professional athletes in Shenyang City at Liaoning Province in China is expected to be completed later this month and open later this year. The project will be one of the world’s larger dry slope centres, spanning and area of 18,724 square meters and reaching a building height of 20.4 meters. The
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