Andorra’s ski areas stepped up their constant slope safety and security campaign by staging a special ‘Saftey On the Slopes’ weekend on 24 and 25 January. “We are always looking for new things for our guests, especially for their security.” said SkI Andorra spokeswoman, Marta Rotés.

During the weekend resort staff handed out leaflets detailing the rules of safety on the slopes and containing a little mini-quiz with prizes of 20 five day Ski Andorra passes to be won, valid at both the principality’s ski regions – Vallnord and Grandvalira.

The importance of checking your ski bindings were working properly and correctly set was also emphasised with many of Andorra’s ski shops offering a free binding check as part of the campaign.

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Many of the world’s leaders and thousands of related BGO and other parties are gathering ion the Swiss ski resort of Davos for the annual World Economic Forum. The event is ranked second only to the G8 meetings for world political significance and this year’s is being staged at a crucial time for the world economy.

Over 40 political leaders and 35 finance ministers and central bankers and other corporate leaders will attend the Forum and look for collective strategies to tackle the global downturn.

Leaders from Britain, Germany, Japan, Russia and China will attend, although the new US president will not.

The Kinderhotels chain has launched a range of fully equipped ski schools in its ski centre resort hotels, mostly in Austria.

Smiley’s Tiny Tots Ski School accepts children from the age two and provides supervision of children from two years of age in small groups (maximum five children per group), either at the hotel or quite close by (up to a maximum of 300m from the hotel).

The schools employ qualified ski instructors, have easy to use “magic carpet” conveyor lifts to help children up the slope, a fun ski slope with pipes, mogul piste and so on, special smallest style skis and boots available for hire in the hotel or close by, at least one taster day to see if the child likes it and a snow guarantee.

The Smiley Tiny Tots Ski Schools even offer their own specially developed concepts for teaching the very smallest children. The ski school is part of a wider family-centre complete holiday package.

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