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Sustainable Ski Resort Principles: An Uphill Journey
2008As discussed throughout this volume, sustainability has become a stated goal for many tourism businesses and destinations. For ski resorts, there are a number of drivers behind the goal of sustainability (see also Chapter 2 in this volume). There exists a growing, though still incomplete understanding of the impacts ski resorts have on mountain ...
Daniel Scott, Tania Del Matto
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Acromioclavicular joint injuries at a Colorado ski resort
The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 2021Acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) injuries are among the most common injuries in contact and non-contact sports. As winter sports become more popular, there has been an increase in shoulder injuries among recreational skiers and snowboarders.This was a retrospective analysis of all patients who presented to the Denver Health Winter Park Medical Center with
Naomi Kelley +3 more
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Snowed: Deceptive Advertising by Ski Resorts
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009Casual empiricism suggests that deceptive advertising is prevalent, and several classes of theories explore its causes and consequences. We provide some unusually sharp empirical evidence on the extent, mechanics, and dynamics of deceptive advertising.
Jonathan Zinman, Eric Zitzewitz
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Land Degradation at the Stara Planina Ski Resort
Environmental Management, 2012The environmental impacts of ski resorts in the Balkan region are great and can lead to landscape degradation and loss of land functionality. In this study, we present an example of the negative effects of human activities at the Stara Planina ski resort in southeastern Serbia.
Ristić, Ratko +4 more
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Customers' Perceptions of Ski Resorts' Images: Implications for Resorts' Positioning Strategies
Tourism and Hospitality Research, 2008Image is a core element in a communication strategy especially in regards to destination branding and positioning strategy. The present study aims at investigating to which extent French ski resorts can develop different positioning strategies, based on tourists' perceptions of a set of pictures taken from brochures and representing the resorts in ...
Isabelle Frochot, Dominique Kreziak
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Using ski destination choice criteria to segment Finnish ski resort customers
Tourism Management, 2011Abstract The purpose of the paper is to segment Finnish ski resort visitors according to ski destination choice attributes using data-driven segmentation. In addition, segments are compared in order to ascertain possible differences in personal (gender and age) and situation-specific (type of visitor and traveling companion) characteristics between ...
Konu, Henna +2 more
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Should I ski today? The economics of ski resort season passes
Leisure/Loisir, 2016ABSTRACTA multistage decision process is involved when season ticket holders choose to go snow skiing. First, they decide whether to purchase the season ticket. After the ticket is purchased, each day of the season the skier decides whether to ‘hit the slopes’ that day.
Mark A. Holmgren +2 more
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Injuries in Norwegian Ski Resorts 2002 – 2004
Journal of ASTM International, 2006Abstract A central ski patrol-based registration of skiing and boarding injuries was performed by the Norwegian Ski Lift Association during the winter seasons 2002/2003 and 2003/2004. Totals of 7252 injured skiers/boarders and 4.884 million skier/boarder days were recorded during the two seasons, giving an injury rate of 1.5 injured per ...
A Ekeland, A Rϕdven
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Time Block Analysis of Ski Resort Visitors
The Tourism Sciences Society of Korea, 2018Our daily lives are composed of activities that consume time. Few studies have examined leisure behavior or recreation participants by using an analysis based on time blocks. This study presented a time-based analysis of activities undertaken by visitors to ski resorts, collecting data by means of a modified diary-type semi-structured questionnaire ...
Tae-Hun Kim, Young-Hwan Ju
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Increasing customers' loyalty in a skiing resort
International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 2006PurposeThe purpose of this paper is three‐fold: first, to propose a model for measuring service quality in a skiing resort; second, to investigate the contribution of place attachment on the prediction of customers' loyalty, and third, to examine the influence of service quality on the development of place attachment.Design/methodology/approachA total ...
K. Alexandris +2 more
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