International Sustainability Award 2024
MTS Summit Award 2024
April 2024| Mountain Travel Symposium - Lake Tahoe USA
Every year in April, around 1,000 experts from the winter sports travel industry, ski associations and journalists meet in the USA for the Mountain Travel Symposium, the largest winter sports trade fair in the world. The participants mainly came from the USA, Canada and South America, but many well-known ski resorts from Europe were also present.
The MTS 2024 took place in Lake Tahoe in mid-April. As part of the high-caliber forum, SkiWelt from Austria was awarded the sustainability prize for all its long-standing efforts from among all the nominees (e.g. Ski Utah, Vail, Weisse Arena Gruppe, 3 Zinnen and many more). Vail received a second prize for its special mental health program to prevent mental illness for its employees. The awards were presented to the winners by Brian Roth, Sales Director of United Airlines. For SkiWelt, the MTS was also the official market launch in the USA. SkiWelt became the first European partner ski resort of Indy Pass in October 2023. The Indy Pass is a ski pass network of privately run ski resorts. Founded 5 years ago for the smaller ski resorts in the USA, they are now one of the fastest growing with over 200 ski resorts on 3 continents. You can feel that skiers are looking for the charm of privately run ski resorts. Just 2 days after the SkiWelt season opened, the first Indy Pass holder visited SkiWelt.
"These awards are a real honor for us. After such a challenging yet successful winter, these awards are a reward for the great work of the entire SkiWelt team, all our hut owners and partners on the mountain and in the valley. In the area of sustainability, many small and large initiatives have made us strong, credible and successful in recent decades. We are all working together to become even better in this area and take this award as an incentive for the coming winter season and to continue to be pioneers in the area of sustainability," says Anita Baumgartner.
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