Prices are high everywhere, to say the least and many are starting to use phrases suchlike exorbitant, mad, silly; even unaffordable.
All that doesn’t bode well for travel companies, who have enjoyed affluent clients and favourable interchange rates for various years. Both of these factors have helped to make foreign trips become the norm for many uk families, couple and individuals.
So how will these new financial constraints wreak havoc on the traditionalistic ski holiday? Well a week or ten days spent enjoying the slopes in the alps or the dolomites was never a bargain basement holiday, not unless you go back twenty years or more.
Those distinctively capable to afford the sporting winter break could never be classed as individuals on the breadline, but that doesn’t mean skiing holidays are exempt to the effects of the financial downturn. Disposable income was something these individuals would at all times have taken for granted and the pricing of a ski holiday, with all its add-ons of equipment hire, lift passes and lunchtime mountain restaurant stops were just share of the territory.
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