France has a huge variety of ski options

Alan — Sun, 29 May 2011 07:39:54 +0000

For those across the United Kingdom and Europe skiing holidays in France are incredibly popular. The reason is due to the varied skiing options in the regions in France and the ease of access to get to the options. Plus the country has completely embraced skiing as a tourism market and ensured that a skiing holiday wherever it is in France will be extremely enjoyable.

For the avid ski lover one of the best places in France with the greatest to offer is Paradiski ski area. The area has an array of beginner’s runs, intermediate and of course expert level for those that have expertise in the sport. Located in the Tarentaise Valley the region is a link between La Plagne, Peisey-Vallandry and Les Arcs. The valley itself is in the region of Savoy in southeastern France’s heart of the Alps.

La Plagne, Les Arcs and Peisey-Vallandry all offer a myriad of choices for any type of skiing holiday in France. Les Arcs gives access to four of the high altitude resorts with over 20 runs for beginners, over 190 for the intermediate and close to 30 for experts. They are accessed by over 170 chair lifts. Peisey – Vallandry is included in those available runs and acts as a center hub for La Plagne and Les Arcs.

There are six high altitude resorts available in the La Plagne region with access to an additional four alpine villages in the area. One thing the locals boast about in the area is access to an Olympic bobsleigh run that is open to anyone with enough intestinal fortitude to get into the sleigh and head down the run. For ski holidays, there are over 244 runs with over 140 ski lifts. France continues to improve upon their already excellent infrastructure with so many offerings across the Alps.

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French Ski resorts booming

Alan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:09:36 +0000

The ski season last year from 2008-2009 has been great for France due to excellent ski conditions combined with cold weather that kept the snow falling.

As a result, France ski resorts saw their visits increase by about 6.6%, which partially may be due to the fact that the season set of record of 58.6m sky days. Overall the total revenue for operators of French increased over 8.9%.

However, not all ski areas saw the benefits of the increase in skiers over the season, since the ski resorts that benefited the most from the great season were locations such as Plancher Les Mines found in Franche Cornte, Metbeif in Jura, and Le Lioran in Massif Central.

Areas such as Massif Central, which only contributes to about two percent of the skiing activity in France, saw an increase of visitors by over 63% over the last season, while areas that usually attract the most skiers from Britain such as the Alps only saw an increase of about 6.6%.

There are three possible explanations for this occurrence, the recession which caused skiers and holiday goers in general to stay closer to home, the second because there was better snow in the less popular ski areas, and the third because many international resorts suffered from the foreign markets contracting.

The SNTF report showed British skiers are of major importance to resorts in France with about 21% of all skiers in visiting the country of British origin beating out all other nationalities

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