Sentence examples for ski operation from inspiring English sources
But if we didn't adapt, the ski operation by itself might not survive".
Effectively giving the ski operation away was an act of desperation on the part of Ernen, which, like hundreds of other small Alpine ski stations at medium altitudes, faces dire times.
The move has fostered resentment among some ski resort employees, whose bonuses have been cut and whose stock options remain worthless as underperforming acquisitions drain cash from Vail's profitable ski operation.
With the wind-chill factor reaching 50 below, John Neal, the general manager of the Bear Creek Mountain Club in Plymouth, Vt., closed his ski operation Friday, the first time he had shut for an entire day.
"We added it this summer," said Chris Ellms, director of ski operations at Bretton Woods.
The result, says Simon Davies, Neilson's ski operations manager, is that "we don't have to wait until the following season to implement improvements".
Mathew Prior, who as the boss of Tui's ski operations is the most important figure in the business, believes that the market has bottomed out.
"That is a legitimate role for private-sector partners," he said, noting that ski operations in national forests were built privately.
But Europe's more densely inhabited and typically steeper mountain ranges have largely proved prohibitive to new commercial ski operations other than heliskiing.
The scorecard, produced by a group called the Ski Area Citizen's Coalition, ranked resorts on 11 criteria that focus largely on issues like expansion and development through new housing, ski trails or ski operations.
Property sales have exceeded ski operations revenues at Intrawest every year since 2001, and the company sells more property at other peoples resorts than it does at its own.
