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More scrutiny for Wolf Creek ski
village
08/08/08 19:40 from
Rocky Mountain News Stories: Skiing &
Tourism
The U.S. Forest
Service has begun a fresh review of the
potential environmental impact of a developer’s
plans to build a road to a proposed village next
to Wolf Creek Ski Area.
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Gambling stakes increase on state
ballot
08/08/08 17:55 from
Rocky Mountain News Stories: Skiing &
Tourism
A proposed amendment
that would allow Colorado’s casino towns to
decide whether to increase bet limits to $100
from the current $5 has been approved for
November’s ballot.
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Aspen ski pass
prices going up
01/08/08 17:34 from
Rocky Mountain News Stories: Skiing &
Tourism
Skiers and riders will
pay $25 to $70 more for the most popular season
ski passes at the Aspen Skiing Co. resorts next
winter, the company announced Thursday.
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Out-of-way spots like Colo. hit
as travelers stick closer to home
05/07/08 03:05 from
Rocky Mountain News Stories: Skiing &
Tourism
Judy Curtis and her
husband hoped to travel to Venice, Italy, this
summer as a reward for paying off the mortgage
on their Boulder home.
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Foreign tourists not flocking to
U.S.
05/07/08 03:05 from
Rocky Mountain News Stories: Skiing &
Tourism
Despite the weak U.S.
dollar, a boom in international travel around
the world hasn't translated into an explosion of
foreign tourists to the United States.
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Passengers adjust course as fees
soar, service plummets
05/07/08 03:05 from
Rocky Mountain News Stories: Skiing &
Tourism
Tardy flights, cranky
workers, missing bags and cramped cabins often
top the list of consumer complaints against
airlines.
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Vegas-style casino ups the stakes
in tiny Cripple Creek
04/07/08 03:05 from
Rocky Mountain News Stories: Skiing &
Tourism
Placing bets and
taking chances has been a way of life in this
historic mining and gambling mecca for more than
a century.
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Telluride gets deed to Valley
Floor
27/06/08 15:39 from
Rocky Mountain News Stories: Skiing &
Tourism
After years of court
battles that ended in the Colorado Supreme
Court, the town of Telluride finally received
the deed to its prized Valley Floor, a 3-mile
strip of land along the San Miguel River just
south of town.
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Car-sharing companies fight
taxman
19/06/08 17:05 from
Rocky Mountain News Stories: Skiing &
Tourism
In cities around the
country, fans of Zipcar Inc. and other
car-sharing companies are seeing prices rise for
those jaunts to the grocery store. For that,
they can blame the taxman.
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Tourism hits record heights
17/06/08 16:13 from
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Tourism
The trend could prove
difficult to sustain as soaring fuel prices and
a struggling economy take their toll on
Colorado's travel industry.
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Vail Resorts buys airport shuttle
17/06/08 15:43 from
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Tourism
Vail Resorts is buying
Colorado Mountain Express, the airport shuttle
business, for about $40.5 million.
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It's still ski season in Aspen
13/06/08 23:11 from
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Tourism
Aspen Skiing CEO Mike
Kaplan ducked out of an industry board meeting
in Mount Crested Butte this week to get his
first kayaking fix of the season on a nearby
river. But that doesn't mean he's anywhere near
ready to put winter behind him. Th..
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Colorado Ski Country regroups
13/06/08 02:00 from
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Tourism
Colorado Ski Country
USA named its longtime public policy chief to
lead the organization through wrenching changes
that include a slashed budget and a sharply
scaled-back focus on marketing and advertising.
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Ski trade group slashes budget
12/06/08 18:47 from
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Tourism
Colorado Ski Country
USA, faced with dramatically reduced revenues
after Vail Resorts Inc.’s defection, has cut
more than a third of its staff and eliminated
most of its domestic marketing activities.
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Skier visits fall a bit short of
record
12/06/08 18:22 from
Rocky Mountain News Stories: Skiing &
Tourism
Colorado ski areas
drew almost 12.54 million visits in the 2007-08
season, falling about 30,000 short of last
year's record season, according to the trade
group for the state's mountain resorts.
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Snowboarding tops outdoor
activities for visits to the ER
11/06/08 07:31 from
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Tourism
The first national
study to estimate recreational injuries shows
snowboarding accounts for a quarter of such
emergency room visits.
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Snowboarding tops outdoor
activities for visits to the ER
11/06/08 02:24 from
Rocky Mountain News Stories: Skiing &
Tourism
More people are
injured snowboarding than any other outdoor
activity, accounting for a quarter of emergency
room visits.
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Aspen Mountain firing up the ski
lifts this weekend
10/06/08 03:37 from
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Tourism
With 3 feet of snow
still covering the upper slopes of Aspen
Mountain, the Aspen Skiing Co. will open the top
of the mountain to midday skiing this weekend.
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Vail Resorts' profit increases
05/06/08 16:46 from
Rocky Mountain News Stories: Skiing &
Tourism
Vail Resorts Inc.
reported a bigger profit in the third fiscal
quarter, but its stock fell more than 5 percent
as its results came in below Wall Street
forecasts.
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Limo operators win battle to keep
vans in fleets
05/06/08 00:00 from
Rocky Mountain News Stories: Skiing &
Tourism
Local limousine operators won a battle to keep
conventional passenger vans in their fleets, a
victory for the industry as the Democratic
National Convention draws near.
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