Fantastic snow, increasing foreign and French attendance. In Courchevel, the season started off with a bang. At the beginning of March, Jean-Pierre Lalanne, commercial director of the Société des Trois Vallées (Courchevel and Méribel) spent an exceptional winter. Rise in turnover, enthusiasm of skiers for the most expensive packages in the Three Valleys ... everything looked good for the future, after a record winter 2019.
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Everything collapsed on March 14. "We suddenly learned that ski resorts had to close, like all other non-essential activities," says Alexandre Maulin, president of Domaines skiables de France. The previous days, the information we had was that the stations were not affected by a closure. ” Tens of thousands of customers had just arrived. In a few hours, it was necessary to close more than 300 stations, organize the reimbursement for those who had bought passes ...
"The priority has been to manage
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