Plan for year-round Fort Worth ski park underway

[Colonâ„¢]

There are 3 indoor ski slopes in Belgium already, 5 in the Netherlands and twice as much in the rest of Europe. Do you really believe they'd be building those things if money can't be made of it?

[Flubber]

The thing might work but if the slope is all super easy runs, an experienced skier type couldn't be bothered IMHO even if it were very close and cheap. So the market is probably amusement park types and maybve even some people that want to try skiing without incurring the major costs of travel to a major resort.

I could see that if they had losts of cool rides or games it could be sorta a snow Disneyland and get lots wanting to escape the heat. Itr may succeed commercially on that basis . . I don't have the background to know-- Plus maybe aerobatic skiiers and halfpipe boarders could have a decent facility in limited space

But for actual skiing?? I'm pretty new to the sport and I think I would be bored with those little slopes with little variety.

So could work but I wouldn't think that experienced skiiers would be a huge market for them except to the extent they would want their lesser ability spouse or friends to go and practice so they don't hang up the crowd when they go to a real mountain

[SlowwHand]

Thank you, Colon.
I knew I could count on you as a voice of reason.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Colonâ„¢
There are 3 indoor ski slopes in Belgium already, 5 in the Netherlands and twice as much in the rest of Europe. Do you really believe they'd be building those things if money can't be made of it?

Whose money are they using?

Actually, scratch that. Investors decide to put down tons of their own money for terrible ideas all the time.

[Colonâ„¢]

The European Organisation for the Development, Promotion, Exploitation and Harmonisation of Indoor Skiing in Snow-scarce Regions their money, of course.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Colonâ„¢
There are 3 indoor ski slopes in Belgium already, 5 in the Netherlands and twice as much in the rest of Europe. Do you really believe they'd be building those things if money can't be made of it?

Belgium and the Netherlands have

1. much cooler weather than Texas
2.a very different culture than Texas

I wouldn't think that success in one place would say much either way about the chances for success in the other.

I do however believe that most peoople investing that kind of coin would have done adequate due diligence to have a good sense of the market

[SlowwHand]

You think there are no skiers in Texas? Are you munching loco weed?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Colonâ„¢
The European Organisation for the Development, Promotion, Exploitation and Harmonisation of Indoor Skiing in Snow-scarce Regions their money, of course.

I think you're missing a verb.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Flubber
I do however believe that most peoople investing that kind of coin would have done adequate due diligence to have a good sense of the market

You'd think so, wouldn't you, until you look at the Internet.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
You think there are no skiers in Texas? Are you munching loco weed?

Who was that aimed at?

If me, I know there are Texan skiiers . . . probably a lot of them. I just don't see a hardcore or skilled skier hitting a bunny hill destination more than once. If pricing is reasonable it might get decent usage from its immediate area. If it has enough attractions, it could become a stand-alone destination like a Disneyworld

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


You'd think so, wouldn't you, until you look at the Internet.

Actually I KNOW so. I said MOST people investing that kind of coin would require the due diligence. MOST do.

However even if reputable otrganizations have done the marketing and engineering studies and done them well, it doesn't mean their projections will be borne out. The problem with doing something that has never been done before in a given location is that a lot of the marketing research would necessarily involve a lot of extrapolations

[Kuciwalker]

Even if most people investing in large projects have done due diligence, that doesn't mean most people investing in these have. Or that they've found any realistic projection of revenue.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Flubber


Who was that aimed at?

If me, I know there are Texan skiiers . . . probably a lot of them. I just don't see a hardcore or skilled skier hitting a bunny hill destination more than once. If pricing is reasonable it might get decent usage from its immediate area. If it has enough attractions, it could become a stand-alone destination like a Disneyworld

This isn't a bunny hill.

[Asher]

It's also not a ski hill, which again display how Texans know nothing on the subject...

[Patroklos]

You realize several Arab states in the gulf already have this, right? Dubai's had it for years.

I've been to the Dubai ski slope, it isn't all that bad when you consider what/where it is.

And Dubai is the only such slope in the Middle East, and it just opened along with the Emirates mall a little over a year ago. BEST MALL EVER! Anything you want is there, annd cheaper than the US/Europe.

Dubai in general just rocks. Been there four times now and it never gets old.