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Racing
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Industry Reports :: July 2015
U.S. SKI TEAM TO MANAGE NASTAR… SEASON’S VISITS DROP TO 53.6 MILLION… HEAVENLY SUMMER PLAN WINS APPROVAL… PEOPLE… OBITUARIES… CORRECTION: MUELLER LIFTS LIVES U.S.…
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Embezzlement
You might be surprised—and the staff at our decades-old small ski area can guarantee it will more than ruin your entire day—if you find…
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Congratulations To Nastar
Congratulations to NASTAR on its 25th Anniversary. This, the world’s largest race program for recreational skiers, has played an important role, adding to the…
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Widening The Window
Whether it’s health care, financial services, electronics or any other business, a manager’s ability to get information quickly from all aspects of an operation,…
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The Marketplace – Press Kits: Looking Better, But Still Overweight.
Congratulations! As a whole, ski area press kits are definitely better than they were when I wrote a jaundiced review of them in the…
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Software Overkill
“The recurrent theme in this (computer) business is smaller, faster, cheaper. Except for software, which gets bigger, slower and costs the same,” wrote Bill…
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Computer Products
Hand held computer Data General’s model 5221 series hand held point of service computer is a small (7.5″x3″x1″), lightweight (14.4 oz) device that allows…
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Ticketing And Access Control
As John Dendy, ticket manager of Red River, New Mexico, puts it, “the day of selling tickets out of cigar boxes has long past.”…
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Ticketing And Access Control
As John Dendy, ticket manager of Red River, New Mexico, puts it, “the day of selling tickets out of cigar boxes has long past.”…
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Ticketing And Access Control
As John Dendy, ticket manager of Red River, New Mexico, puts it, “the day of selling tickets out of cigar boxes has long past.”…
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Ticketing And Access Control
As John Dendy, ticket manager of Red River, New Mexico, puts it, “the day of selling tickets out of cigar boxes has long past.”…
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Ticketing And Access Control
As John Dendy, ticket manager of Red River, New Mexico, puts it, “the day of selling tickets out of cigar boxes has long past.”…
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Telephone Trials
“If you know your party’s extension, please press 1. If you want this, press 2. If you want that, press 3. If . .…
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Accessing The Weather
A recent article in the Computer Shopper reviewing software that can download weather data caught my interest. After a telephone call, plus a $60…
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Ski Schools Coming On Line
Over the next few years, computers will have a great impact in how ski schools are run. From simple stand-alone PCs on the ski…
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U. S. Ski Team Development
by Tom Kelly, Communications Director, U.S. Ski Team In comparison to the ski industry as a whole, ski racing may appear to be very…
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Computers For Small Areas: Computer Phobia
Space … the final frontier for Starship Enterprise. Mountain Operations may well be the final frontier for computerization at small ski areas. Although computers…