Compagnie Des Alpes Report Record Winter Business
The Compagnie des Alpes, the world’s largest ski lift and resort operator by passenger numbers, has announced record lift ticket sales for the 2007-8 winter season.
Reporting on the company’s third quarter of the current financial year, a company spokesman commented,
“The third quarter was affected by a slow month of April. This was due to an Easter weekend that fell in the month of March this year, and to an unfavourable spring holiday schedule in France. “
However overall during the first nine months of the company’s financial year, and including all of last winter, ski area sales grew by 23% on a real basis, largely because of the consolidation of STVI (Val d’Isère) and SFB (Saas Fee) lift companies as of October 1st last year. Sales grew 6.6% like for like, with lifts sales showing growth of +8.5%. Visitor numbers reached a record of 13.7 million skier-days (+6.8%) for the season overall. This performance makes up for much of the drop in land sales transactions (0.8 million vs. 6.4 million).
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