SAM Coverage
Conferences & Trade Shows
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Buzz Words Highlight Travel Symposium
“Synergy” and “quality control” were last year. The 410 people who attended the 18th Annual Ski Travel Symposium at Vail this April exchanged a…
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Nepa Process May Be Revisited
A better method for assessing the environmental impacts of ski development? Or a Trojan horse that will undermine approvals and increase compliance costs? That…
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Ski Historians Meet At Sun Valley
They came from as far as Norway and Australia, they ranged in age from mid-thirties to mid-eighties and they skied like demons. The occasion…
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Ittab Explores Colorado Resorts
Colorado was the scene in August of the first-ever meeting in North America of the international organization of cableway supervisory authorities, known as ITTAB…
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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 held, with…
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Convention ’92
Riddle: What is 118 hours long but fits into a 36-hour time slot? Answer: the 32 information-packed seminars, workshops, panel sessions and presentations and…
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NSAA Convention: Highlights And Headlines
To paraphrase Mark Twain and a seminar participant, the reports of alpine skiing’s demise are greatly exaggerated. That was the message managers from more…
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Growth Issues At Colorado Ski Country Annual Meeting
Something Henry Ford said years ago may have set the tone for the wrap-up session of the annual meeting of Colorado Ski Country USA,…
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Attendance Down, New Ideas Up At Cross Country Convention
Cross Country Ski Areas Association headed to the Wasatch this spring for the thirteenth annual convention, April 19-23. The Prospector Square Convention Center in…