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Using ski destination choice criteria to segment Finnish ski resort customers

Tourism Management, 2011
Abstract 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, Laukkanen, Tommi, Komppula, Raija   +2 more
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Should I ski today? The economics of ski resort season passes

Leisure/Loisir, 2016
ABSTRACTA 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, Vicki A. McCracken, Jill J. McCluskey   +2 more
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Injuries in Norwegian Ski Resorts 2002 – 2004

Journal of ASTM International, 2006
Abstract 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, 2018
Our 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, 2006
PurposeThe 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, C. Kouthouris, Andreas Meligdis   +2 more
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Do Ski Resorts Overcharge for Ski Lift Tickets?

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
Gudbrand Lien, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Iveta Malasevska, Ørjan Mydland   +3 more
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The ski-resorts in reconversion

2006
Cet article s'intéresse aux dynamiques d'évolution des stations de montagne, sous l'angle de l'urbanisation de loisirs. Ainsi, il montre comment, selon le type de stations considéré, stations moyennes ou stations d'altitude, on assiste à des processus de perte de lits marchands au profit de résidences principales, un développement du tourisme de ...
Marcelpoil, E., François, H.
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Plant Invasions Associated with Ski Resorts

2022
Keith McDougall, Lohengrin Cavieres
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The hybridization in the ski resorts clusters: the new challenge for the diversification of the ski resorts

2016
Composées d'un grand nombre d'acteurs économiques et politiques, les stations de sports d'hiver peuvent être qualifiées de clusters touristiques. Longtemps articulées autour des seuls sports d'hiver, elles doivent désormais diversifier leur activité et élargir leur offre touristique, ce qui questionne l'avenir des proximités géographique et ...
Achin, C., George-Marcelpoil, E.
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Hard hits to ski resorts

Nature Climate Change, 2010
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