{"id":10466,"date":"2014-01-28T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10466"},"modified":"2014-01-28T07:24:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T12:24:47","slug":"how-ski-resorts-are-reinventing-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/how-ski-resorts-are-reinventing-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ski Resorts Are Reinventing Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/012814_1222_HowSkiResor1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Economist looked at the greying ski resort business:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The average skier is getting older and ski resorts are looking to attract younger blood.<\/li>\n<li>One ski resort offers a ski-in ski-out Starbucks.<\/li>\n<li>Others are looking to make resorts more family-friendly with play zones, yoga lessons, and snowmobiles.<\/li>\n<li>This has the added benefit of making ski-resorts destinations that can be visited all year and has led resorts to consider activities such as zip lining.<\/li>\n<li>Vail Resorts offers an app that lets users track their skiing statistics and share them with their friends.<\/li>\n<li>Terrain Parks are areas where skiers can perform tricks, record videos of them, and share them online.<\/li>\n<li>One terrain park has a barn with foam pits, trampolines and half pipes for more spectacular tricks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about how much skiers have aged, how ski slopes are being redesigned and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/united-states\/21595027-who-will-replace-grays-trays-old-cold-and-splurging-gold\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/united-states\/21595027-who-will-replace-grays-trays-old-cold-and-splurging-gold\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist looked at the greying ski resort business: The average skier is getting older and ski resorts are looking to attract younger blood. One ski resort offers a ski-in ski-out Starbucks. Others are looking to make resorts more family-friendly with play zones, yoga lessons, and snowmobiles. This has the added benefit of making ski-resorts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/012814_1222_HowSkiResor1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10469,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466\/revisions\/10469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}