Saturday, September 3, 2011

Colorado skier visits down 5.5% for the season - Portland Business Journal:

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percent from last year, reported But the state’s ski resorts had an upticj in visits by Front Range andMelanie Mills, Ski Country’s president and CEO, pronounced herself “very happy with where visitation is for this “The travel industry as a whole was put to the test this past Mills said in a “But visitation numbers show not only the enduringh value of a Colorado ski but the strong commitment our resident skiing and riding community has to our state’ss signature sports.” Ski Country is a marketingg and trade group for 22 Colorado mountain resorts. Those member resorts alone recorder 6.79 million skier visits this season, down 6.
9 perceny from the previous year, Ski Countrgy said. Member resort numbers for 2008-09 were down 3.9 percent from the average of the last five SkiCountry said. Ski Country said that in-states resort visits were up 2.5 percent over last as Front Range residents took advantaged of bargains and stayed closer to home to keep down vacatio n andrecreations costs. Ski areas operated by Broomfield-basedx aren’t members of Ski Those resortsinclude Breckenridge, Vail, Beaveer Creek and Keystone. Vail Resorts last week said its total skier visits at all itsresorts — includinf Heavenly in California-Nevada — were down 5.3 percentf from the previous season.

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