SAM Coverage
Lifts & Ropeways
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Summit Series :: Finance and Revenue
The third installment of the SAM Summit Series leadership mentoring program focuses on managing expenses and, more importantly, how to drive revenue. This is…
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Finding Lost Forest
Aspen Snowmass put a great deal of thought, and plenty of investment, into its broadly appealing summer business attractions. Back in 2013, a team…
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Ski California LMOE Conference, June 5-7, 2018
Lift Maintenance and Operations Education Conference Brings Consortium of Experience to Squaw Valley By Dave Zook Interest in progressing lift safety is sky high,…
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Diamond Peak STOKE Certified
SAM Magazine—Incline Village, Nev., June 4, 2018—The community-owned Diamond Peak Ski Resort near Lake Tahoe was recently recognized as being STOKE Certified for its…
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SAVMI 2018: Educational Value Continues to Draw Crowds
The annual conference of the Ski Area Vehicle Maintenance Institute (SAVMI), held May 14-17, drew 316 attendees to Grand Junction, Colo., including 179 resort…
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NSAA Honors Blann, Wieringa with Lifetime Achievement Awards
SAM Magazine—Marco Island, Fla., May 8, 2018—The National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) presented its 2018 Lifetime Achievement Awards to Jerry Blann, the former longtime…
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Mountain Creek Unveils New SnowCloud Software
SAM Magazine—April 24, 2018, Vernon, N.J.—Mountain Creek is debuting a new ecommerce and point-of-sale solution called SnowCloud this summer. Aimed at simplifying guest transactions,…
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Mountain Spy :: May 2018
For this issue’s Mountain Spy, we asked a guest-service savvy resort staffer—Kimberly Meeker, the regular Spy’s better half—to mine through the last decade of…
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Statistical Disarray in 2018
SAM has been encouraging greater coordination of industry data for 35 years. How much has changed? Thirty-five years ago, a Speak-Out by SAM founding…
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Life in the Fast Lane
Tubing can be spectacularly profitable. Night tubing turns the dial to 11. Ski areas of all sizes agree that adding a snow-tubing park is…