In This Issue
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Supplier Directory
Names, addresses and key contacts for suppliers of products and services to the ski industry.
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1993 Directory Of Products And Services
A listing of products and services and their suppliers within the ski industry.
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Computers For Small Areas: Four Marketing Uses.
No doubt about it, computers can help small ski areas in conducting business and probably no other segment of the daily operation…
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Computer Catalog Errata
Following are two more additions to the listings in “The Second Ski Industry Computer Software Catalog” (pages 30-36, July SAM 1992).
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Computer Fairs Launched at Loon and Snowbird
The ski area industry’s first Computer Fairs were launched in October, the first two-day session held at the Mountain Club at Loon…
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Taking Away The Fun
by Donald McKay, Chairman and General Manager, Tyrol Basin, Wisc. I have been involved in the ski industry for over 25 years…
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Quality Counts At Risk
We’ll go right to the point: the Quality Counts program our industry is trying to get off the launching pad is important.…
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Let’s Not Throw The Baby Out With The Water
by Bill Stenger, President and General Manager, Jay Peak Resort, Vt. The recent vote by SIA may have taken some people by…
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Views On The Demerger
Go fast. Go slow. Do away with the national convention. A national convention is an absolute must. Make marketing the top priority.…
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Ski School: Children’s Program Supervisors
Help Wanted Progressive ski school seeks manager for growing children’s program. The applicant must be capable of the following: Understand children and…
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Usia Dies; NSAA Reborn
USIA Dies; NSAA Reborn With Michael Berry as CEO Almost exactly three years after merger, the union dissolves. NSAA Chairman, Chris Diamond,…
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The Legacy Of The Tenth
The setting alone told the story of the Tenth Mountain Division’s impact on the world of American skiing. Meeting for their fiftieth…
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Usia Snowboard Operations Manual For Ski Areas
Having completed surveys and submitted information from my files to USIA for the development of the new “Snowboard Operations Manual,” I looked…
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Lift Specialists Gather At Steamboat Symposium
The Fifth OITAF/NACS Symposium, August 30 to September 2, at Steamboat, Colo., was widely viewed as one of the most successful ever…
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Yield Management / Ski Management
“Yield Management” has been responsible for increasing revenues 5% to 10% in some capacity constrained hospitality industries. What is yield management? How…
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Old Lift Gets High Think
Skiers visiting Winter Park this winter will find a new lift — well, it’s actually rather an old lift, and one with…
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Colorado Children’s Rush
A child under six who pays to ski in Colorado is paying too much — almost every ski area in the state…
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1991-92 Economic Analysis
Professor of Marketing, University of Colorado at Boulder While the 1990-91 ski season was one to forget because it was the second…
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Steamboat And Its Martens
The American marten, Martes americana, is a reclusive arboreal carnivore of the genus Martes, about 2 1/2 feet long, with 9-in. bushy…
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The Wherefores Of Wire Rope
Wire rope installation is a topic that provokes a wide range of opinions and brings about differing responses from lift manufacturers, wire…
