Trysil Ski Resort Expands Range of Summer Attractions
Eine solche Tubby-Rutschreifenpiste gibt es nun auch im norwegischen Skigebiet Trysil.
(eap) With a total of 71 km of slopes, Trysil is the largest ski resort in Norway. With dedicated areas and slopes for children, beginners, advanced and professionals on skis & snowboards, the winter sports destination, located an about 2.5 hours’ car drive north of Oslo, has something to offer for many. For breaks in between the sportive activities, numerous restaurants and cafes are available on site. To encourage guests to visit Trysil during the summer months as well, new “good weather” attractions are now increasingly being built to provide recreational fun for the whole family.
This summer, for example, will see the first opening of a Mountain Coaster in its advanced 2.0 version (by Sunkid) and also a “Tubby” tubing track from Neveplast. While summer toboggan runs and their further developments (track-guided models) can generally be integrated into the surrounding natural environment without any problems, artificial ski slopes, tubing slides and similar attractions are coming under increasing criticism because of the environmental impact of plastics. Measures such as the establishment of a circular waste management system are intended to counteract this problem.
Manufacturer Neveplast comments: “Our goal, with a view to increasingly green development, is to find the right balance between renewable sources and secondary raw materials with increasingly sustainable products. Two years ago, we launched a new version of our flagship product for ski slopes ‘NP30FreeskiSustainable’ with the project being carried out in Stockholm,” comments Neveplast CEO Niccolò Bertocchi, and adds, “In recent years, plastic has been subject to a sort of demonization. However, it remains a fundamental material in many sectors. It is an intelligent and often irreplaceable material. The problems, from an environmental point of view, are rather related to its management. We at Neveplast, in such a delicate historical moment for the environment, believe that engaging in a policy of active responsibility does not only mean focusing the production of our products on ‘green’ choices, but making sure that it becomes a component of our corporate identity.”
Whether with plastic or without, the range of attraction types for and the diversity of ideas for the creative design of mountain adventure worlds with a focus on the warm months of the year are in any case steadily increasing. Look forward to our trend report on this topic, which will appear in EAP issue 4/2023 (published on July 1st)! ■
