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Significant tourism investments are planned in VuokattiThe goal is to develop Vuokatti into one of the most attractive tourist areas in Finland and a new competitive advantage for susta...

The new Blue Grouse gondola will speed some 1,000 patrons per hour to Grouse Mountain's ski runs and attractions at the plateau, with plans to expand summer activities into mountain bik...

On July 31, 2024, Grouse Mountain posted the following update regarding their summer 2024 gondola construction: We are excited to share the ongoing progress of Grouse Mountain’s state-o...

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Snow FlowOn and Off the Slopes with EcosignLandscape Architecture MagazineJan 2020 Vol. 110 No.1...

Dave Brownlie presented three year priorities and 10-20 year plans to Revelstoke City CouncilRevelstoke Mountain Resort shared their plans for the future development of the village over...

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Doppelmayr 8-seater chairlift a first in Canada...

Ecosign Founder & Chairman, Paul Mathews, spoke with Bruce Watt about how the PEAK 2 PEAK Gondola came to fruition.About this podcast:Oral history is important and this podcast capt...

YEREVAN, MARCH 17, ARMENPRESS. In Yeghipatrush village of Aparan community, Aragatsotn Marz, a new multifunctional ski resort is planned to be constructed under the investment program l...

The following is an English translation of the original article from Hallingdølen, Published: Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 04:10After these people went to Canada, the village’s populati...

Ski Arena Andermatt – Sedrun Master Plan prepared by EcosignWhy Now Is the Time to Visit the Swiss Ski Village of Andermatt...

Ropeways.net 2019-01-09 STRATTON MOUNTAIN, VT.– Southern Vermont’s highest peak debuted its new high-speed Snow Bowl Express quad January 5. The new lift is the highlight of Stratton...

A promotional video for Wanda Changbaishan International Resort, posted by Travel Agency Fregat Aero....

Exactly 10 years ago, July 5, 2007, at three o’clock in the morning Moscow time President Zhak Rogge of the International Olympic Committee, slowly got up on stage Real Intercontinental...

Dave Felius, a world-renowned authority on ski-course design, is laughing in front of his slopes-style course at Phoenix Snow Park. [Pyeongchang]“The Olympics will take place for two we...

Quick: What’s the highest mountain in Europe? If you said Mont Blanc, you’re off by 1,740 miles (2,800 km). It’s Mount Elbrus, a dormant volcano that tops out at 18,510 feet (5,642 m) i...

As the number of Chinese taking to the slopes each year grows by leaps and bounds, one local company has positioned itself at the centre of the country’s ski boom. Whistler-based Ecosi...

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...

ECOSIGN is on hand in Beijing for the final submission of the Beijing bid in 2014, a year before it came out on tops to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. It doesn’t need to snow...

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...

The post Ryley Thiessen – A look at the changing face of ski areas through the eyes of one of the world’s leading ski resort designers. appeared first on Ecosign....

The Government of Montenegro has selected the Company that will be preparing a detailed Spatial Plan for the Bjelasica and Komovi region, a mountainous region in northern Montenegro. Af...

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...

When it comes to winter sports in China, Yabuli has long been considered the best. But with the recent opening of a third ski resort, Zhangjiakou has emerged as a serious competitor.  ...

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...

The Jungfrau Railways Group has devised a concept for future access to Männlichen and Kleine Scheidegg. Working together with the Gondelbahn Grindelwald Männlichen AG (GGM), the company...

Even by the big-thinking, grand-planning standards of contemporary China, the under-construction Secret Garden, a $6 billion ski, golf and adventure resort in the country’s northeast, i...

  A Russian àcid trip` The scouting trip was a surreal scene: Private jets, helicopters, senior Russian government ministers, armoured limousines, police escorts, guns everywhere. Drunk...

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...

Master plan will ‘lift’ Niseko The post Master plan will ‘lift’ Niseko appeared first on Ecosign....

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...

At any ski resort, a fast downhill ride is a good thing — unless that describes its sales. Recreational real estate has been on a downward trajectory in most parts of the world since th...

A gondola that glides 480 meters above the Gotthard Pass road, an aerial tramway from Göschenen railway station directly to the Nätschen ski area, more than 200 kilometers of ski slope...

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...

Key Facts Paul Mathews of Ecosign is one of the world’s leading mountain resort planners. The company has played a key role in the redevelopment of several Swiss resorts, including Davo...

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 ...

The Development of a Rural Town into a Ski Resort for the Rich and Famous Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, plans to re-develop the town of Krasnaya Polyana situated in the Southwest ...

“Most ski resort managers are hotel owners, entrepreneurs or lawyers with vested interests in the resort. I offer a neutral, outside look at things.” This December day under the radiant...