In light of the depression skiing occupancies dropped last season.

This is even with good early season reservations and fantastic snow.

This reduction in numbers follows on from six seasons of continuous growth in the skiing industry, and the numbers went down from 1 million in 2008 to under a million last ski season.

Perhaps due to snowboarders giving their annual snowboarding break a miss, and other snowboarders who’d generally have 2 ski holidays, just took the one.

The independent travel sector fell by 15% and a handful budget airlines reducing the amount of their routes to some airports.

Tour operators saw their bookings decreasing by around 15%.

Nonetheless, the top 6 ski holiday package operators market share continued at a healthy 73% and the Alps in France continued to remain the most visited holiday destination with around 37% of the skiing market.

Because of this several major tour operators cut the number of luxury chalets they operate this year.

Catered ski chalets will see a reduction in clients due to the fact that a luxury catered chalet costs the operator more with regards to hosts and chefs and rental when it is unoccupied.

It’s unlikely therefore we shall benefit from the deals which were up for grabs last winter.

And prices are likely to augment, prices probably won’t go up substantially.