{"id":2436,"date":"2018-11-19T13:16:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T12:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2019-02-09T10:57:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T09:57:15","slug":"world-ski-awards-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/features\/world-ski-awards-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"World Ski Awards 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1993 World Media And Events Limited launched the World Travel Awards and, buoyed by the success of this, launched the World Ski Awards in 2013. It&#8217;s only a bit of fun, although I am sure it brings business not only to the organisers but also the award winners. The approach is straightforward: votes are cast online by professionals working within the ski industry, and by ski tourism consumers, at the World Ski Awards website.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/WSA2018-1024x426.jpg\" alt=\"World Ski Awards 2018\" width=\"525\" height=\"218\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2437\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/WSA2018-1024x426.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/WSA2018-300x125.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/WSA2018-768x319.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/WSA2018.jpg 1493w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><br \/>\nEvery year the awards are associated with a three day networking event, culminating in the awards ceremony, this year held in Kitzb\u00fchel over 16th-18th November. World&#8217;s Best Winners for 2018 included:<\/p>\n<ul>Ski Resort &#8211; Val Thorens (France)<br \/>\nFreestyle Resort &#8211; LAAX (Switzerland)<br \/>\nSki Hotel &#8211; W Verbier (Switzerland)<br \/>\nNew Ski Hotel &#8211; Fahrenheit Seven Courchevel (France)<br \/>\nGreen Ski Hotel &#8211; rocksresort, Laax (Switzerland)<br \/>\nSki Boutique Hotel &#8211; Aurelio Lech (Austria)<br \/>\nSki Chalet &#8211; Chalet Les Anges, Zermatt (Switzerland)<br \/>\nNew Ski Chalet &#8211; Chalet des Cascades, Les Arcs (France)<br \/>\nSki Tour Operator &#8211; Sunweb<\/ul>\n<p>As well as awards for the best in the world, there are also country awards, with votes for the best ski resort in Switzerland going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/verbier.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Verbier<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/verbier.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Verbier from SwissWinterSports\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1993 World Media And Events Limited launched the World Travel Awards and, buoyed by the success of this, launched the World Ski Awards in 2013. It&#8217;s only a bit of fun, although I am sure it brings business not only to the organisers but also the award winners. The approach is straightforward: votes are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/features\/world-ski-awards-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World Ski Awards 2018&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[59,214,226,46,62,371,304,331,37,74,373,113,40,306,10,372,22],"class_list":["post-2436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-chalet","tag-courchevel","tag-france","tag-green","tag-hotel","tag-laax","tag-les-arcs","tag-sion","tag-ski","tag-ski-resort","tag-sunweb","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland","tag-val-thorens","tag-verbier","tag-w-verbier","tag-zermatt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}