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Scottish skier numbers for 2012-3 - best since 2009-10
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Thanks to above-average snowfall (in some cases, such as Cairngorm and Glencoe, exceptional), Scotland's had another great overall winter for business ...

http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/outdoors/features/scots-ski-resorts-see-near-record-breaking-season-1-2985890

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-23146585

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The record-breaking season of 2009-10 resulted in 374,789 skier days. For the following year, 2010-11, the figure was 289,995 and for season 2012-13 it was 290,996.
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Comedy Goldsmith, does that translate into profitability?
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Very good question. If "profitability" is translated to "potential to invest in new/replacement ski lifts" ... there's little news. The only lift construction on Scottish mountains since the recent run of better winters has been the Baddoch chair at Glenshee. This is a big contrast to the 1960s and 1970s, when dozens of the existing lifts went up (and are approaching their life-expectancy). Draglifts - t-bars and Pomas - continue to be the predominant lifts in Scotland, but these have mainly been replaced by chairs in the Alps etc. For Scotland to consolidate its ski industry, the modernisation of lifts (not necessarily by building chairlifts, which can suffer in cross-winds) is an imperative for a good user experience.

That said, plenty of new snow-fencing has been going up. And there's been a growth in Pistenbully numbers. On Cairngorm, there are the new snowguns (perhaps still under experimentation in terms of cost-benefit). Cairngorm continues to do the best business by far ... showing that, despite all the financial headaches with the funicular railway (which opened in 2001), the founders of the lift system and Aviemore Centre in the early 1960s chose a great mountain for natural snow-holding. In many (or most) years it seems to enjoy a 5-month season.

The other ski centres seem to be getting by, and Glencoe is showing innovative enterprise by installing mountainside accommodation (something new in Scotland) and diversifying into mountainbiking.

In unrelated news ... a Scottish wintersports centre which isn't finding tubing very profitable ...

http://www.winterhighland.info/forum/read.php?2,157754
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