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Just how big are ski resorts in the number of visitors they cater for. My rough idea, based upon counting the number of skier under the Grand Col lift in Les Arcs and scaling upwards is that Les Arcs has about 50-60 thousand skiers over the Christmas week but what is the capacity of the resort? Anyone know?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well most publish figures for uplift capacity - as skiers per hour - e.g Les Arcs reckons 86604 skiers / snowboarders per hour. Of course most people will want to do more than one lift per hour, and it does depend upon the length of a lift - and do you count linked areas too? But I've never seen it quoted as vertical metres of uplift/hour which might be more relevant.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Number of beds would roughly do it. Number of ski pass days sold per season might be interesting.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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johnE, The Annual report of Compagnie Des Alpes (who operate Les Arcs among others) is here.
http://www.compagniedesalpes.com/sites/default/files/FY%202011%20Registration%20document_BAT_GB%20BD_Go.pdf
Page 14, under 4.1.2 has visitor numbers of their various ski areas.
For 2010/11 the Paradiski area had 4.5 million skier days. If the season is approximately 150 days, then that averages out at approximately 30,000 per day. So double that at peak times seems quite likely, and your guesstimate probably wasn't too far out.
On page 16, they state that the Paradiski area has 98,000 tourist beds.
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Thanks for that information Alex. After my original post I found the beds statistic on the paradi web site which says Les Arcs and La Plagne has 102,096 beds. A very precise number and I wonder if the factored in the sofa bed in our apartment to give 102,099 beds?
Though I searched the CDA web site I didn't find the fascinating report. Many thanks Alex, Why for example is paradiski 80% bigger than espace Killy. Are CDA not sole owners of espace Killy lift system?
Pub argument now settled 
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However Paradiski, though technically linked, is not really one area like Espace Killy.
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I think I have read somewhere that Tignes and Val D'Isere have about 30,000 beds each 
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