SAM Coverage
Category: SAM Headline News
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Registration Opens for the 21st Gathering of Cutter’s Camp
SAM Magazine—Natick, Mass., Jan. 30, 2025—Registration is now open for SAM’s Cutter’s Camp, May 5-9, 2025, at Timberline, Mt. Hood, Ore. The five-day program…
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Investment Firm Calls for Major Changes at Vail Resorts
SAM Magazine—Charlotte, N.C., Jan. 27, 2025—Late Apex Partners, LLC, an investment firm whose largest holding is Vail Resorts, is calling for transformational change at…
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Homewood Master Plan Revision Approved
SAM Magazine—Homewood, Calif. Jan. 27, 2025—The saga of Homewood Resort took another turn last week when the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) governing board…
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Crested Butte Lift Maintenance Workers Threaten to Strike
SAM Magazine—Crested Butte, Colo., Jan. 27, 2025—Lift maintenance workers at Vail Resorts-owned Crested Butte voted for a strike authorization following negotiations in which Vail…
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Weather Dictates Variable Business Over MLK Holiday Weekend
SAM Magazine—Jan. 22, 2025, Ludlow, Vt.—As usual, snow, both manmade and natural, played a major role in shaping business over the three-day MLK holiday…
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Hotel Fire in Turkish Ski Resort Kills at Least 66
SAM Magazine—Istanbul, Turkey, Jan. 21, 2025—A predawn fire at a hotel in the Kartalkaya Ski Resort in Turkey killed at least 66, with another…
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Lift Failure Injures 15 at Spain Ski Area
SAM Magazine—Barcelona, Spain, Jan. 20, 2025—A chairlift failure injured more than a dozen people Saturday morning at Astún resort in the Spanish Pyrenees. The…
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A-Basin Ski Patrollers Vote to Unionize
SAM Magazine—Arapahoe Basin, Colo., Jan. 20, 2025—Members of the Arapahoe Basin ski patrol voted 30-22 in favor of unionizing. If the results are certified…
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The Good, Bad, and Ugly in Vail Resorts Early Season Results
SAM Magazine—Broomfield, Colo., Jan. 17, 2025—Vail Resorts reported that season-to-date total skier visits for North America were down 0.3 percent while lift ticket revenue rose…
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Rates, Occupancy Remain Steady at Western Resorts
SAM Magazine—Winter Park, Colo., Jan. 16, 2025—December daily rates nudged up a bit, occupancy edged down a bit, and lodging results among the participating properties…