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About World Ski and Snowboard Festival

The World Ski and Snowboard Festival WSSF is a yearly festival of snowsports, music, expressions and mountain culture. The Festival is held every April in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada and has been perceived as the biggest yearly winter games and music celebration in North America. It has been known as the snowsport business' iant of Burning Man. The World Ski and Snowboard Festival was made by Doug Perry in 1996. The celebration was produced in an association between Perry, Tourism Whistler and Whistler/Blackcomb. In 2006 the responsibility for celebration was solidified in a joint securing of Perry's proprietorship stake by Tourism Whistler and Whistler/Blackcomb.

The debut WSSF in 1996 comprised of 22 sports occasions and rivalries. In consequent years it experienced exponential development in participation and media scope, bringing about Whistler turning into the busiest mountain resort in North America in the long stretch of April. At its pinnacle, yearly participation came to an expected 250,000 resort visits. An Economic Impact Assessment8 directed amid the 2006 occasion found that the WSSF created $37.7 million in monetary movement for the territory of British Columbia, with guest spending and operational consumption infusing more than $15.7 million into the Whistler economy. More than 28,000 inn room evenings were sold amid the Festival, with 86% being straightforwardly credited to WSSF.

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