Warts in the mountains that need to be gotten rid of or vestiges of an industrial heritage that need to be preserved?
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Two hundred ski areas have disappeared in France since 2013
,” says Vincent Simon, an alpine ski enthusiast who, for ten years, has been listing the resorts that have thrown in the towel and dedicating a blog to them (1).
Enough to arouse fears of seeing the massifs transformed into ski lift graveyards.
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We are of course not talking here about large resorts with an international reputation, but more often than not isolated sites with only one or two ski lifts (70% of cases) and very modest reception infrastructures .
Most of these installations have since been dismantled - for 78% of sites - or left abandoned due to lack of sufficient resources…
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specifies Vincent Simon on his site.
The figure of 200 ghost resorts makes Alexandre Maulin, president of Domaines skiables de France (DSF), a professional chamber bringing together 400 members… jump.
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