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Fr a n c e Skiing in France has it all – classic ski areas,
resorts. About twice as many as to the
modern ski in/out areas, high-altitude snow-
country’s nearest rival, Austria.
sure terrain, and more than two-thirds of the world’s biggest ski regions.
It hasn’t always been that way, French skiing has only really come into its own over the past
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Add to the mix the famous French ambience,
few decades, as the purpose-built resorts
a love of good food, and the proximity to the
of the 1960s and 70s matured, expanded
UK – direct from London by rail, Eurotunnel
and interlinked. But, in many ways, that later
and fast French motorways, or by air – and
development has been to the advantage of
it’s no surprise that nearly half of all ski
French skiing, with resort planners enjoying
holidays by British visitors are in French
a blank canvas on which to develop state-of-