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Because of the credit crunch snowboarding occupancies went down last season.

Notwithstanding cracking early season holiday reservations along with great skiing.

These reductions in vacationers follows six years of development in the snowboarding industry, and the number of vacationers shrunk from 1.1 million two winters ago to 950000 last winter.

This is in part due to vacationers giving the season a miss, and other holiday makers who would commonly have two ski trips, just took the one.

Sales for the independent travel sector fell by 15% with several no frills airlines cutting the no. of routes to certain cities.

Some tour operators witnessed their numbers going down by about the same amount.

Nonetheless, the leading tour operators share of the market continued at just over a healthy 70% and the Alps in France retained its position as the favourite ski destination with about 37% of skiing holidays.

Because of this a lot of tour operators reduced the no. of luxury catered chalets they rent this coming winter.

The luxury chalet market will surely witness a reduction in no.s as a luxury catered chalet costs more in terms of chalet chefs and rental when it is empty.

It seems unlikely we will find the last minute special offers that were on the market last winter.

And prices are likely to increase, prices probably won’t increase substantially.

This winter presents grave issues for the snowboarding industry which is influenced by the outcomes of the credit crunch, weakness of the pound, soaring costs of fuel and large fixed running costs for snowboarding businesses.

This season vacationers will become progressively cost aware, this shall add to a turnabout of the recent years that saw a development in the independent travel sector.