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No Business Like Snow Business: The Economics of Big Ski Resorts
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Interesting piece in The Atlantic.
No Business Like Snow Business: The Economics of Big Ski Resorts
Shows why it makes sense for big resorts in the US to heavily discount season passes. In short because once they've got you there even if the conditions are poor then the same company owns all the accommodation, bars and restaurants to makes money out of you whatever happens (possibly more if you are in the bar rather than on the slope).
As the article says the same monopolies are less prevalent in Europe (and the season pass issue is less relevant for most UK based skiers though certainly works well if you live in for example Austria).
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A snowHead on Sat 11-02-12 12:57; edited 2 times in total
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, Scandinavia have this kind of monopolies, "Skistar" owns the most resorts in sweden and the two biggest in Norway, hemsedal and Trysil
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The monopoly model is also quite common in Japan. For example the Prince Hotels and resorts. Owned by Seibu (which also owns a lot of railways). Which is owned by Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, who lobbied hard for the Nagano Olympics. And who is terrifically rich (and had a slight scrape with the law).
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France, for example, has horizontal monopolies in vertical markets.
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