Vail Resorts is honored to obtain 5 awards from the Nationwide Ski Areas Affiliation (NSAA), the commerce affiliation for ski space house owners and operators. It represents over 300 alpine resorts that account for greater than 90% of the skier/snowboarder visits nationwide. The awards have been introduced on the 2024 NSAA Nationwide Conference and Tradeshow in Frisco, Texas. Beforehand, Vail Resorts obtained the Golden Eagle for Local weather Change Affect in 2023 and the Golden Eagle Award for Environmental Excellence in 2019 for its daring environmental sustainability program, Dedication to Zero.
In 2024, Vail Resorts is honored to win:
Mountains are for Everybody Award, the Gondola Gallery by Epic:
The Gondola Gallery by Epic sequence launched for the 2023/24 season at Park Metropolis Mountain, Stowe Mountain Resort, and Whistler Blackcomb. It options one-of-a-kind artwork installations and a movie sequence celebrating the backgrounds of artists who love the mountains. According to Vail Resorts’ core worth of Be Inclusive, this challenge is meant to create significant dialog round illustration, range, inclusion, and entry for all skiers and riders.
Finest Social Media Marketing campaign Award, Keystone Resort:
The 2023/24 season was a particular one for Keystone. The Resort launched its brand-new Bergman Specific chairlift, including 500+ acres of lift-served terrain and making Keystone’s excessive alpine terrain elevate accessible for the primary time ever. Heading into the season, Keystone’s social media group noticed a possibility to focus on the grandeur of one of many trade’s largest initiatives and, extra importantly, inform the human tales and lesser-known work behind the challenge. In “Bergman Unlocked,” the Keystone social media group laid out the individuals and the method behind the Bergman Bowl challenge.
Golden Eagle Hero of Sustainability Award, Kate Wilson:
Kate Wilson, Vice President of Environmental & Social Duty, brings over twenty years of sustainability expertise to Vail Resorts. Kate leads the newly fashioned Environmental and Social Duty group overseeing sustainability, inclusive entry, exterior DEI work, neighborhood assist, and our worker basis. Beneath her management, Vail Resorts achieved 100% renewable electrical energy for the second consecutive yr, reached its 15% power effectivity financial savings objective forward of the corporate’s 2030 goal, and achieved the Dedication to Zero subgoal of fifty% waste diversion throughout the enterprise in 2020.
Finest Collision Prevention Program Award, Heavenly Ski Resort:
NSAA’s Collision Prevention Award acknowledges campaigns that successfully talk the crucial message of collision consciousness and prevention. This previous season, Heavenly Ski Resort rerouted the Mombo run and reconstructed the Lakeview Terrain Park to redirect skier site visitors and cut back collisions.
Security Champion Award, Kolina Coe, Keystone Resort:
Director of Mountain Operations at Keystone Resort, Kolina Coe, brings a profession of ski patrolling and varied different roles within the Tahoe area to Colorado. Kolina led the Keystone group by means of the Bergman Bowl terrain enlargement challenge – a excessive alpine elevate and terrain enlargement that offered many logistical challenges. Due to Kolina’s management, the group accomplished the challenge with no accidents or security incidents for workers or contractors, aligned with the Vail Resorts’ core worth Be Protected. Kolina created a tradition of security for the challenge and held everybody accountable for upholding security expectations, requiring all challenge managers to finish weekly security audits. The tradition she created was infectious, and the whole group was dedicated to security day in and day trip.
Along with the winners above, we additionally acknowledge and congratulate the hardworking groups throughout Vail Resorts who have been named finalists within the sustainability, security, and advertising award classes:
Finest Worker Security Program Finalists: Wildcat, Stowe Mountain Resort
Finest Social Media Marketing campaign Finalists: Crotched Mountain
Finest Use of Video Finalists: Keystone, Stevens Cross
Total Environmental Excellence Finalist: Vail Resorts
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