{"id":3190,"date":"2026-04-22T18:19:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:32:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:32:54","slug":"skiing-numbers-continue-to-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/uncategorized\/skiing-numbers-continue-to-climb\/","title":{"rendered":"Skiing Numbers continue to Climb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/planetski.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-21-at-14.30.38.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2024-25 season saw a record 399 million global skier visits, a 7.8% increase from the previous year. While this growth was widespread, the report highlights that the Alpine countries\u2014Austria, France, Italy, Liechtenstein, Slovenia, and Switzerland\u2014collectively account for 14% of the world\u2019s estimated 150 million skiers. This places the Alpine region, including Switzerland, as a key pillar of the global ski market, alongside Western Europe (20%), the Americas (20%), and Asia-Pacific (33%). <br>Notably, the 2024-25 season saw strong demand despite below-average snow in parts of Europe, with snowmaking and operations helping to maintain visitation levels. While countries like the U.S., Italy, and Russia exceeded pre-Covid averages, the report notes that Japan and Germany have not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels. China once again leads the ranking of countries performing above their historic pre-Covid five-year average. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The leading ski nations are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1 United States \u2014 61.6 million (+1.8%)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2 France \u2014 54.8 million (+5.6%)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3 Austria \u2014 51.9 million (+3.6%)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4 Italy \u2014 34.8 million (+8.8%)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5 Japan \u2014 28.2 million (+15.6%)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6 Switzerland \u2014 26.3 million (+13.7%)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">7 China \u2014 26.1 million (+13.0%)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">8 Canada \u2014 19.8 million (+13.1%)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">9 Sweden \u2014 10.2 million (-2.9%)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>The findings were released at the Mountain Planet trade show in Grenoble, France in the The International Report on Snow &amp; Mountain Tourism 2024\/5.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024-25 season saw a record 399 million global skier visits, a 7.8% increase from the previous year. While this growth was widespread, the report highlights that the Alpine countries\u2014Austria, France, Italy, Liechtenstein, Slovenia, and Switzerland\u2014collectively account for 14% of the world\u2019s estimated 150 million skiers. This places the Alpine region, including Switzerland, as a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/uncategorized\/skiing-numbers-continue-to-climb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Skiing Numbers continue to Climb&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[183,325,307,226,99,100,430,40],"class_list":["post-3190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alpine","tag-ba","tag-china","tag-france","tag-high","tag-mountain","tag-russia","tag-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3195,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions\/3195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}