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The story of Ruka and the Aho family began in 1967, when Doctor Juhani Aho bought his first little piece of Kuusamo: a site on Lake Kitkajärvi shore, and a permanent room at Hotel Rukah...

Georgia’s most popular winter resort is undergoing a transformation to equip the facility with the latest technology and infrastructure ahead of an anticipated busy winter season. Today...

Meet the man who designs ski resorts No fewer than 370 ski areas have been developed with the help of Ecosign, the company founded by Paul Mathews, the architect of Sochi. Ben Clatworth...

To Watch Video, click here In China, winter is no longer just about big dinners with family and late night mahjong. China’s ski market is entering a golden period with millions of ski f...

Ecosign Mountain Resort Planners, the international firm that calls Whistler home, can add another Olympic feather to its cap — Beijing 2022. Ecosign has designed the snow cluster venu...

Canadian Paul Mathews is the world’s pre-eminent ski resort designer, having created more than 400 of them around the world. He explains the principles behind a perfect trip to the snow...

Submitted by Paul Mathews Sochi ski course Ecosigns’ Paul Mathews presents plans for Rosa Khutor to members of the IOC in February 2007. Had it not been for some homegrown Whistler expe...

Whistler`s Ecosign Designs the World`s Snowy Playgrounds As Eric Callender thundered across a mountain plateau, high above Beirut, he made sure his snowmobile stayed right in the tracks...

Skiers and tourists at the train stop on the Kleine Scheidegg in the Bernese Oberland(Keystone) One of the biggest and best known Swiss ski areas needs a major revamp if it wants to mai...

As a young man, Paul Mathews 64, disliked the indifferent attitude of American ski resorts towards the environment. He was about to join the field activists’ opposing side, but decided...

International man of the mountains From a base in Whistler, B.C., Paul Mathews’ Ecosign has designed more than 300 resorts in three dozen countries. Ski hills used to be built on gut in...

Whistler Olympic Park designer Paul Mathews has helped craft 320 ski areas in 34 countries, including Switzerland, where being a ski bum inspired his life’s work. The 62-year-old Americ...

Give her the facts and figures – topographical contours, roads, rivers, lakes, tree lines, proposed building footprints, parking lots and lifts and perhaps a few photos – and she’ll giv...

The last time Russia hosted an Olympic event, the world was a very different place. It was the Moscow Summer Games of 1980, and some 24 countries boycotted, including the U.S., because ...

2014 Olympic bid putting Sochi on the map On July 4, the 111 members of the International Olympic Committee will gather in Guatemala City to decide who will host the 2014 Winter Olympic...

He’s the Forrest Gump of the ski business. And like the fictional movie character, he’s never forgotten his roots. Although Kiwi Roger McCarthy is now considered one of the most influen...

Whistler-based Ecosign Mountain Resort Planners Ltd has been assigned by the Serbian government in charge of a major development Stara Planina. Horwath Consulting Zagreb, member of Horw...

The Sochi 2014 delegation celebrated their selection as Candidate City for the Olympic Winter Games in 2014 as the news was announced today at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerl...

Few things are more European than Alpine skiing, which was developed in the Alps a century ago. But today, many of these old-style, resorts rich in tradition are being redesigned by a m...

The ski resorts of Hasliberg, in the Bernese Oberland, with Engelberg-Titlis, and the Melchsee-Frutt ski area in Central Switzerland are planning to connect their ski slopes. In connect...

One of the great laments of most people who have “discovered” Whistler in the last decade is that they weren’t in on things before the resort became huge. Since then, many people have ...