Vermont
Numbers show Vermont ski industry rebounding from pandemic
MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) – The numbers are in and so they present Vermont’s ski trade is starting to rebound from the pandemic.
Information launched on Monday exhibits that 3.76 million folks visited Vermont’s 20 ski resorts this yr, a rise of 6% over final yr.
Some 350,000 folks additionally visited Vermont’s cross-country ski areas.
With quick pandemic challenges within the rearview mirror, resorts can now work on different points. Particularly, constructing extra reasonably priced workforce housing to accommodate employees, and maintaining the ski trade sustainable within the face of local weather change.
“We actually want a bipartisan local weather answer from Congress. It’s a worldwide downside, after all, and we’d like different nations to do their half, however the U.S. must do its half,” mentioned Molly Mahar, the president of Ski Vermont.
She says the trade can be working to broaden snow sports activities to extra individuals who haven’t been capable of entry it.
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