Ski hosting in La Rosière

This season, La Rosière is offering ski hosting to their guests.  Many resorts in North America already offer free guided tours of their slopes, but this is the first resort in France to offer such a service.

La Rosière will … Read More

Crystal promotes benefits of ski holiday by rail

Crystal Ski is promoting the benefits of their ski holiday packages travelling by rail rather than flying. Here at FSN, we’re look at some of the ways Britain’s number one ski tour operator is making it appeal to their customers… … Read More

Olympic torch breaks new underwater record

The Olympic Torch for the Sochi Winter Games in 2014 has broken yet another world record as it was taken underwater in deepest freshwater lake in the world – Lake Baikal.

The torch has already travelled aboard an icebreaker to … Read More

Val Thorens voted world’s best ski resort

Val Thorens won the prize for ‘best overall ski resort in the world’ this weekend at the inaugural World Ski Awards, which took place in Kitzbühel.

The French resort has already won the award for the ‘Most Improved European Resort’ in … Read More

Ski hosting – ESF and Le Ski back in court

British company Le Ski was back in court on Wednesday in the French town of Chambery to appeal against a ban on ski hosting.

The Court of Appeals has agreed to defer the hearing about social skiing being illegal, until mid … Read More

Vertigo buys Ski Famille

Vertigo Holidays has acquired the small specialist family ski tour operator, Ski Famille, for an undisclosed sum.

Vertigo is a new company run by Peter Dyer, founder of both Crystal and Enigma (owner of Esprit and Total Ski).

Dyer said of the … Read More

Bell brothers win World Snow Award

Ski brothers and ex-Olympic racers Martin and Graham Bell jointly won the Lifetime Achievement award for  Outstanding Contribution to UK Snowsports at the second annual World Snow Awards ceremony in London last night.

The editor of the Telegraph Ski and Snowboard magazine, Henry … Read More

Crystal wins Best Ski Company award

Crystal Ski, the UK’s leading ski holiday tour operator, has once again won’ Best Overall Ski & Wintersports Operator’ at the prestigious 2013 British Travel Awards.

Crystal has previously won the award in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011.  This year they beat … Read More

Fun, fun, fun… at the London Ski Show

Editor, Teresa Fisher reports…

Yesterday, I took my kids (aged 10 and 11) to the opening day of the London Ski and Showboard Show.

As I had a full diary of press meetings, I needed them to entertain themselves, so I … Read More

Learn to snowboard in London

If your children are desperate to try out snowboarding, be sure to take them to the London Ski and Snowboard Show this half term (from 30 October-3 November).

The brilliant kids’ snowboarding school, Burton Riglet Park, will be attending the … Read More