Laurent Vanat

Laurent Vanat is an independent consultant and a general practitioner who can also quickly turn into a specialist. Holder of a master in commercial & industrial sciences of the University of Geneva, he has over 25 years of professional experience, as business consultant as well as senior executive involved in management positions. He has on the one hand experience of executive functions in the sales, financial and general management. On the other hand, he advises companies and organizations of all horizons and is well acquainted with numerous industries. Involved in the field of tourism, hospitality & leisure, he has followed closely for several years the ski areas industry. He publishes every year an overview of the market. This report examines in a broadly approach the European and World markets, in the search of new information. It thus enables to follow its evolution and furthermore to provide ideas to the operators. This overview, selectively distributed, was already appreciated by large organisations active in alpine tourism. One of its objectives is to feed the reflexion of the industry and to render the local actors sensitive to the evolutions and the new ideas. In its search for information on the ski areas, he was quickly got sensitive to the issue of accounting skier visits and collection of statistical data. Noting the difficulty of consolidating this information for the Swiss market, he found a way of contributing to the industry by taking the initiative to try a systematic collection of the attendance data. For several consecutive years, this document has been an acknowledged reference for Switzerland. In order to analyse the competitive position of major players, upon invitation by leading industry bodies and tourism conferences, he extended the range of the search, to produce an overview of the key industry figures on a worldwide perspective. For several years now, the International report on mountain tourism has been a reference source. Its coverage is extended every year, together with the update of major figures.