29 January 2018 /Tourism & Leisure

The British ski holiday market

How many Brits go skiing each winter? Who are they? Where do they ski? What is the real size of the British ski holiday market?

Moving Minds Research (fka LHM Marketing) conducted extensive research to get an accurate picture of the UK ski holiday market. Two state-of-the-art consumer surveys were backed up by third party data (visitor numbers and airport surveys in different destination countries) and desktop research.

(An explanation of the method used is provided below.)

 

Results : Size of the British ski holiday market


‘How many Brits go skiing each year ?’ Findings show that each winter 1.5 million UK residents go on at least one ski holiday. 29% of them will go on two or more ski holidays during the same winter season. As a consequence, the 1.5 million holidaymakers produce a total of 2.2 million ski holidays over the course of a full ski season. (these results were confirmed by data from third parties such as visitor numbers in ski countries, skier flow data from airports, nationwide airport surveys and nationwide ski resort surveys in some of the destination countries).

Not all skiers have the opportunity to travel each and every year. This leads to the observation that the UK ski holiday market is bigger than 1.5 million Britons. The survey shows 3.5 million UK residents are ‘in the market’: some of them ski every year, others will ski every second or third year.

The survey mapped a high number of variables related to the UK ski market and ski holidaymakers’ profiles :

  • Chosen ski destinations,
  • Ski holiday budgets,
  • Income,
  • Gender,
  • Age,
  • Family structure
  • Skiing level,
  • Booking channels, accommodation and travel arrangements,
  • A comparison between British and French skiers,
  • A comprehensive inventory of British-run catered accommodation in France,
  • Attitude and habits with regards to UK Tour Operators and catered accommodation,
  • Attitudes and first reactions towards Brexit and the current as well as expected impact on their ski holidays.

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Survey and research Method : 

2 On-line surveys were conducted, one in October 2016 and the second one in October 2017.

Each sample of approx. 1000 respondents is composed of adults between 18 and 70 y.o., and is representative of UK residents who went on a ski holiday at least once in the last 3 years before the time of interview. The chosen sample size is very common for this kind of research.

Respondents are drawn from a large consumer-research panel containing people of all walks of life, ages, opinion, occupation, income, region and they are representative of the British adult population. (No customer or direct-marketing database and no social media source or newsletter subscriber database was used.)

More on :

The reputations of ski resorts

Brexit & the British ski holiday

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