SAM Coverage
Departments: Lifts & Ropeways
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Heavy Lifting
Insights about operating lifts year-round. For many resorts, adding spring, summer, or fall operations means running lifts thousands of additional hours per year. A…
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Staying Connected
As connectivity plays an increasingly important role in resort operations, here’s what to know about improving your communications infrastructure. At ski areas, cellular and…
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Summertime is not Slumbertime
Resorts look to weddings, mountain biking, and more to bolster summer operations, a small but growing piece of the revenue pie. In early June,…
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WHAT GUESTS WANT
Guest experience is the latest battleground for ski area market share. Here’s how to determine and measure what matters most to your guests. Most ski…
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Mountain Spy :: July 2024
The Spy asks resort chatbots, “Do you have ticks? How do I avoid them?” The chatbots struggle to respond. For this mission, the Spy…
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New Products :: July 2024
A host of new technology, equipment, and goods aimed at helping operators optimize business and operations. SKIDATA SMOVE SkiData’s sMove frictionless access-solution gate utilizes a…
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News And Views :: July 2024
An interview with new NSAA board chairman Chip Seamans; global perspectives from the Mountain Planet expo, and more. DAWN OF NEW LEADERSHIP FOR NSAA…
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LMOE Draws Record Attendance, Adds Vehicle Maintenance
SAM Magazine—South Lake Tahoe, Calif., June 27, 2024—The 2024 Ski California Lift Maintenance and Operations Education (LMOE) conference set a record for attendance, with…
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Leitner-Poma of America Opens New Skytrac Facility in Utah
SAM Magazine—Tooele, Utah, June 25, 2024—Leitner-Poma of America (LPOA) opened a new $27 million, 130,000-square-foot Skytrac manufacturing facility last week in Tooele, outside of…
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Annual ISAA Conference Draws Record Attendance
SAM Magazine—Red Lodge, Mont., June 25, 2024—The 2024 Intermountain Ski Areas Association (ISAA) Conference, held June 10-12 in Red Lodge, Mont., attracted a record…