Skiresort Service International Publish Top Resorts For 2008-9
Skiresort Service International Publish Top Resorts For 2008-9
Published : 18-May-2009 02:53
The German based Skiresort Service International has announced its three TOP-Resorts of the season 2008-9 in their annual Awards, staged since 1998/1999."It was a fantastic season, with a lot of snow, mostly good weather, a new world record and a lot of new test reports. We visited 70 different ski resorts in eight countries and a sand ski area in Doha/Qatar." said Oliver Kern of Skiresort Services International.
There are 15 categories in which a resort is graded. The maximum of stars a ski resort can achieve are five in each category, or a total maximum profit of 75 stars.
Skiresort Service International put SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser-Brixental in the Austrian Tirol top with 71 stars, commenting,
"The SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser-Brixental expanded and modernized the already perfect area every year with new trains, improvements to the slopes, and connections in the ski area. In the last season there were three new eight person gondolas and a new high speed six person chair lift in operation and Westendorf has been completely integrated into the SkiWelt."
In second place Italy's Val Gardena in the South Tirol region and included in the Dolomiti Superski pass, scored 69 stars.
"In Val Gardena you can ski or ride on endless slopes below the Sassolungo and thanks to the famous Sella Ronda in Val Gardena, you can also reach many other ski resorts of Dolomiti Superski around the Sella massif. Every year old lifts are modernized and slopes are improved." said the judges.
Ski-optimal Hochfügen-Hochzillertal was placed in joint second with 69 stars, "With the merger of the two areas Hochfügen and Hochzillertal in December 2004 and due to the modernization and world class mountain restaurants the resort can again be a TOP-Resort."
Seven other resorts in the top ten included five more Austrian Ski Resorts (Mayrhofen, Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis, Hintertuxer Glacier, Warth-Schröcken and Großglockner Resort Kals-Matrei) as well as Mammoth Mountain in the US and Val d´Isère (Espace Killy) in France.
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