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...working on contracts to sell 1,000 more. "The European and U.S. markets are not growing that fast, so we're really excited about the potential in China," says Catherine Cheng, marketing manager for Tecnica's Beijing-based China office. For now, the nation's novice skiers prefer to rent boots. But later, says Cheng, "they will buy their own, and we want to be there when they start doing that...
...easy sell compared with convincing Chinese to vacation at high-end domestic ski resorts. China's northeast may have plenty of snow, but with average temperatures in the -20?C range, this is hardly balmy country. Chinese tourists with enough cash to dedicate to a luxury sport may prefer to go abroad. "South Korea is only two hours away and has great ski resorts," says Wang Hongbin, publisher of China's first ski magazine, Speed Ski. "People like to boast that they have vacationed overseas, not in some poor village in China's northeast...
Clinton remains, by a large margin, the candidate both Democrats and left-leaning independents prefer to win the party's nod in 2008. But she is also the candidate who many believe cannot win in 2008, because she is simply too divisive a figure. Which means she is the party's best and worst prospect...
...working on contracts to sell 1,000 more. "The European and U.S. markets are not growing that fast, so we're really excited about the potential in China," says Catherine Cheng, marketing manager for Tecnica's Beijing-based China office. For now, the nation's novice skiers prefer to rent boots. But later, says Cheng, "they will buy their own, and we want to be there when they start doing that...
...easy sell compared with convincing Chinese to vacation at high-end domestic ski resorts. China's northeast may have plenty of snow, but with average temperatures in the -20°C range, this is hardly balmy country. Chinese tourists with enough cash to dedicate to a luxury sport may prefer to go abroad. "South Korea is only two hours away and has great ski resorts," says Wang Hongbin, publisher of China's first ski magazine, Speed Ski. "People like to boast that they have vacationed overseas, not in some poor village in China's northeast...