Vail Resorts Severes Ties With Colorado Ski Country

mike lewis

May 28 2008
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Vail Resorts officials announced to Colorado Ski Country USA (CSCUSA) today that it is pulling Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, and Keystone out of the group, which serves as the representative for Colorado’s ski industry. The move is expected to seriously impact the trade group’s finances and its status as Colorado’s industry representative.

Vail Resorts officials stated they had “philosophical differences” with other members of CSCUSA about the group’s role of marketing versus public policy work.

“We had hoped to be a catalyst for positive change, but unfortunately, a number of the other members did not agree with our vision and we were unable to resolve these differences,” Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz said in a press release.

Vail said it wants CSCUSA to focus on “a more traditional public policy role,” and leave marketing efforts to collaborations with the state tourism office, according to Katz.

Revenues for Colorado Ski Country are currently based on season pass sales, of which Vail sells the most in the state.

For more information, check out the Vail Daily’s article

here

6 Comments For This Post

metal Says:
May 28th, 2008 at 9:41 pm

Just another case of the big guy bullying the little guy. Vail doesn’t stand to lose anything but all the other resorts do. Selish slobs. And to announce this on the same day that all the ski are heads meet up at NSAA - what a bunch of crap!

slidr Says:
May 28th, 2008 at 11:45 pm

Maybe their planning on merging with QUIK to win the jack ass off award

nigheist Says:
May 29th, 2008 at 4:29 am

I wonder if this is why Rob Perlman quit CSCUSA and went to work for Steamboat?

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May 29th, 2008 at 6:46 am

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