Other ski resorts turning to mountain bike parks in summer are Canazei, Pila, Sestola and Livigno.

Many world-renowned ski resorts such as Verbier and Crans-Montana are just over an hour away by car.

The canton of Valais is probably best known for the Matterhorn and ski resorts such as Zermatt and Verbier.

Other parts of the mountains of the canton further west are popular as well, such as the more French-speaking resorts near Verbier and the Evolene and Arolla region.

In winter, Martigny is appreciated for its numerous nearby Alp ski resorts such as Verbier.

During the first week of the Spring semester, students attend a " ski week " in places such as Verbier or Crans-Montana, ski resorts in the Alps.

It is part of the " Four Valleys " ski area, which includes the ski resorts of Verbier, Nendaz, Veysonnaz, La Tzoumaz, and Thyon with a total of 410 km marked runs.

Verbier is one of only a few resorts to have a mountain, Mt Gele, with no pistes coming down it.

Ski resorts such as Les Menuires in France are purpose built for the ski industry and winter tourism.

It also helped develop new ski resorts like Chamrousse, Les Deux Alpes, and Villard-de-Lans.

The Ariege has several of its own downhill ski resorts, the three largest being Ax-Bonascre, Les Monts D ' Olmes and Guzet-Neige.

There are many cross country ski-ing resorts, one of the best being at Plateau de Beille, near Les Cabannes.

Morzine is the centre point and from here one can reach other resorts including Avoriaz, Morgins, Châtel, Les Gets and all by chairlift and cable car.

Les Portes du Soleil is a major skisports destination in the northern French alps ( Chablais Alps ) encompassing thirteen resorts between Mont Blanc in France and Lake Geneva in Switzerland.

Most of the resorts have grown around traditional valley villages-only Avoriaz and the very small Les Crosets and Torgon were purposely built during the mid-sixties.

The area comprises the resorts of Courchevel, La Tania, Meribel, Les Menuires-Saint Martin, Val Thorens and Orelle

The following ski resorts are in Les Trois Vallées:

The Jura escarpment to the south and east is a popular tourist region, with its attractions including the lakes of Chalain, Clairvaux and Vouglans ( at Lect, Jura ), and mountain resorts such as Prénovel and Les Rousses.

There are several mountain and ski resorts in the valley, including Alpe d ' Huez, La Grave and Les Deux Alpes.

The most popular area for downhill in the French alps is the Portes du Soleil including the two more popular resorts of Morzine and Les Gets.

Hugo resorts to extreme measures to portray Louis-Napoléon as ruler with much blood on his hands, and Les Châtiments is littered with references to corrupt and flawed historical figures.

It is close to resorts Les Houches, Les Contamines, large ski area Chamonix as well as the Portes du Soleil region — notably resorts Les Gets and Morzine.

At present the Alps are one of the more popular tourist destinations in the world with many resorts such Oberstdorf, in Bavaria, Saalbach in Austria, Davos in Switzerland, Chamonix in France, and Cortina d ' Ampezzo in Italy recording more than a million annual visitors.

Specialist tour buses are also often owned and operated by safari parks and other theme parks or resorts.

Some clubs and resorts do have caddy programs, although benefits are rarely offered.

This rule does not usually apply to intentional torts ( for example, deceit ), and also has stunted applicability to the quantum in negligence where the maxim Intended consequences are never too remote applies ' never ' is inaccurate here but resorts to unforeseeable direct and natural consequences of an act.

Some hotels are built specifically to create a captive trade, example at casinos and holiday resorts.

This trend now has extended to other resorts worldwide, but the concentration in Las Vegas is still the world's highest: nineteen of the world's twenty-five largest hotels by room count are on the Strip, with a total of over 67, 000 rooms.

Inhabitants of the coastal cities, as well as visitors, seek refuge from the oppressive humidity of the coast by spending much of the summer in the mountains, where numerous summer resorts are located.

The major resorts around the lake are Siófok, Keszthely, and Balatonfüred.

Helicopter charter services to French ski resorts are also available.

The most popular tourist destination in Sinai are Mount Sinai (" Jabal Musa ") and St. Catherine's Monastery, which is considered to be the oldest working Christian monastery in the world, and the beach resorts of Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab, Nuweiba and Taba.

These type of boards are commonly used by people at ski hills or resorts for leisure, entertainment and competitive purposes in the activity called snowboarding.

Their skiing resorts are becoming a budget alternative to the Alps.

These depths and times are typical of experienced sport divers leisurely exploring a coral reef using 200 bar aluminum cylinders rented from a commercial sport diving operation in most tropical island or coastal resorts.

Szczyrk, Brenna, Wisła and Ustroń are the most popular winter mountain resorts.

Vacationing Uruguayans of more modest means were concentrated in smaller resorts such as Piriápolis and Atlántida, which are closer to Montevideo.

There are 33 resorts and hotels located on the Walt Disney World property.

The Disney resorts are classified into five categories: Deluxe, Moderate, Value, Disney Vacation Club Villas, and Campground.

Mountains that support heavy recreational use ( especially downhill skiing ) are often the locations of mountain resorts.

The coastline of the Baltic Sea, including islands such as Rügen and Usedom, as well as the Mecklenburg Lake District are characterised by many holiday resorts and pristine nature, making Mecklenburg-Vorpommern one of Germany's leading tourist destinations.

A common link between the games are Larry's explorations of luxurious and cosmopolitan hotels, ships, beaches, resorts and, more commonly, casinos.

In most ski resorts, the runs are graded according to comparative difficulty so that skiers can select appropriate routes.

As such, they are not classified to an independent standard ; although they are likely to be roughly similar, skiers should be cautious about assuming that grades in two different resorts are absolutely equivalent.