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Presentation of the 2012 International report on mountain tourism, at the 7th World Congress on Snow and Mountain Tourism, held on April 2012 in Andorra. Featuring an update on the industry statistics, the recent evolution of the main regional markets and then some considerations about the market drivers. The presentation then supplies some facts and figures in response to the question "Will mountain tourism go global thanks to the web?"
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2012 International report on mountain
tourism
Will it go global thanks to the web ?
7th World Congress on Snow and Mountain Tourism - Andorra – 11.04.2012
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� State of the industry
� Recent market evolution
� Market drivers
� Internet as a market driver ?
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The state of the industry today
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t The world ski market
80 countries 2’000 ski resorts
6’000 places of practice 27’000 lifts
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� A limited number of countries concentrate most of the attendance
Others
22%
Majors
78%
7 countries
70 countries
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RomaniaChile
New ZealandSlovenia
ArgentinaAustralia
PolandAndorraFinland
CzechRussia
SlovakiaChina
NorwayKorea, South
SpainSweden
GermanyCanada
ItalySwitzerland
JapanAustriaFrance
United States
In million skier visits
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Country Argentina Bulgaria Chile Poland Russia Slovenia
Number of resorts 22 32 21 72 170 44
Number of major resorts (>1 mio SV)
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Number of lifts 145 94 122 832 414 217
Skier visits (million) 2 1 1 4 3 1
Population (million) 40 7 16 39 141 2
Ranking in world tourism 44 39 #N/A 19 13 #N/A
Arrivals of international tourists (million)
4 6 3 12 19 2
Proportion of foreign skiers
25% 25% 15% 10% 2% 17%
SV / inhabitant 0,0 0,1 0,1 0,1 0,0 0,6
SV / foreign visitor 0,1 0,0 0,1 0,0 0,0 0,1
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� At national level, a limited number of ski areas concentrate most of the attendance
Example : Switzerland
Other resorts
13%
Resorts >
100'000 SV
87%
63 resorts
142 resorts
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� Strength of national customer base of most of the big players. Foreign visitors concentrate on a few top international resorts.
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Canada
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Spain
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Japan
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Share of foreign visitors
Domestic Foreigners
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� Share in the number of skiers of foreign visitors is less than one sixth of total participants
Internationals
14%
Nationals
86%
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Recent market evolution
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2010/11
Skier visits (million)
- 4.7 %
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� Attendance is still on a growing long term trend in some countries – really ?
Evolution of the 5 years average attendance
(million skier visits)
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2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11
Austria
France
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� ... while on a rather declining trend in some others, with a reversal of tendency for Italy
Evolution of the 5 years average attendance
(million skier visits)
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Switzerland
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2001/02
2002/03
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2005/06
2006/07
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2008/09
2009/10
2010/11
Skier visits (million)
+ 1.4 %
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� Mature markets; USA however successfully fighting against decline in visitation
Evolution of the 5 years average attendance
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Canada
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2010/11
Skier visits (million)
- 6.1 %
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� Norway still showing some real growth trend, while Andorra suffering
Evolution of the 5 years average attendance
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Sweden
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Skier visits (million)- 5.2 %
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� Decline in Japan, growth in China and South Korea, maturity in Australia / New Zealand
Evolution of the 5 years average attendance
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Australia
New Zealand
China
Japan (right)
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New lifts deliveries by regions
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Europe
East
Asia
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Alps
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2001-2010 renewal rate
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Armenia
Belarus
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Latvia
Serbia
Korea, South
Georgia
Italy
Austria
France
Switzerland
Canada
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Market drivers
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Slovenia
Norway
New Zealand
Korea, South
Germany
Finland
China
Australia
Andorra
United States
Switzerland
Japan
Italy
France
Canada
Austria
Skier visits of top players
(in million)
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� Majors : despite GDP growth and tourism still developing, skier visits follows and other pattern
on a 100 basis
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International touristsarrivals
Overnight stays
Skier visits
GDP
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� Challengers : pace of development of ski has been stronger than the other indicators !
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Skier visits
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� Sunny days do not guarantee a good ski season
Switzerland
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� Visitation at ski resorts is not so well correlated with snowfall either (example : USA)
RRC Associates
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� Weak GBP has globally low impact on attendance; strong CHF may have some (to be confirmed)
Alps (Eurozone)
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2011
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skier visits Austria / France / Italy rate GBP/EUR
Switzerland
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2011
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So is Internet the market driver ?
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� ... does not seem to correlate with development of attendance at ski resorts !
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Estimated Internet users (mio)
Skier visits (mio)
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� Nice to have, but still not the market driver !
Facebook fans in % of skiers in resorts > 1 mio skier visits
0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12%
Italy
France
Switzerland
Korea, South
Austria
Spain
Sweden
Canada
Andorra
United States
Survey 1.4.2012
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� Only 3% of tickets sales done online in Switzerland (survey 2009/10 winter season)
others
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online
sales
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� Internet may bring positive aspects ... But they are limited and mitigated by negative ones.
– Marketing operation mode has changed, but this does not enable enough market development (swaps !)
– Internet is before all a powerful sales and promotiontool towards existing customers
– Mountain destinations can take advantage of it, but not all do well (conservative environment)
– Competition increased and has been enhanced by Internet
– The benefits of Internet are also available to all competing industries
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Positive aspects
� Enhances communication
� Facilitates bookings and travel arrangements
� Facilitates daily packages sales
� Make snow conditions more transparent for daily skiers (with some drawbacks !)
Negative aspects
� Increases competition (direct / indirect)
� Web is by itself competing
� Increases the impact of soft factors (psychological effects)
� Does not help to learn skiing and does not facilitate the praxis !!!
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� International connexions
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� Globalisation does not bring more clients at ski resorts !
� Mountain tourism is before all local, the web will not make it global :
– Traditional industry
– Weigh of international customers is limited for most ski destination countries
– International catchments areas are limited
� Markets size
� Issue of transportation
� Travel time & cost
� Saturation of airport at ski destinations
– Overseas skiers have always been anecdotic minorities
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� Ski market is peculiar
� Not globally correlated with variation of worldwide tourism & economy
� Internet is a new sales & marketing channel mostly towards existing customers
� So what is the driver of attendance at ski resorts ?
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La combinaison gagnante
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� www.vanat.ch
– Page « Publications »
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Laurent Vanat
19, Margelle
CH - 1224 Geneva
Tel / fax / voicemail : +4122 349 8440
E-mail : [email protected]
Website : www.vanat.ch
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