News Search

Push to The Latest: No
SAM Magazine—Denver, Dec. 18, 2014—A town hall-style roundtable featuring insights from Bill Jensen, former CEO of Intrawest, Harry Frampton, managing partner of East West Partners, and Steve Rice, senior vice president and senior managing director of the CNL Financial Group tops the bill for The Assembly 2015. Now in its third year, The Assembly, which aims to collect the broadest possible perspective on the winter sports industry, will be held Jan. 28 at the Colorado Convention Center in conjunction with the SIA Show Snow and the Industry + Intelligence seminar series. SAM Magazine—Denver, Dec. 18, 2014—A town hall-style roundtable featuring insights from Bill Jensen, former CEO of Intrawest, Harry Frampton, managing partner of East West Partners, and Steve Rice, senior vice president and senior managing director of the CNL Financial Group tops the bill for The Assembly 2015. Now in its third year, The Assembly, which aims to collect the broadest possible perspective on the winter sports industry, will be held Jan. 28 at the Colorado Convention Center in conjunction with the SIA Show Snow and the Industry + Intelligence seminar series.

The one-day forum kicks off with an overview of the latest industry data on mountain travel, lodging and reservation activity, retail sales, and skier and snowboarder visitation and demographic trends, as presented by Tom Foley, director of operations of DestiMetrics, Kelly Davis, director of research for SIA, and Nate Fristoe, RRC Associates Director.

Included on the agenda is a state of the industry assessment from Michael Berry, president of NSAA, Melanie Mills, president and CEO of Colorado Ski Country USA, Nathan Rafferty, president of Ski Utah, and Parker Riehle, president of Ski Vermont.

Afternoon sessions include consumer trends, emerging online reservations channels and related challenges, marketing technology, and the economics of summer operations and mountain tourism.

Find more information on The Assembly 2015, including the now-full agenda, at assembly.destimetrics.com.