Every year from December to March, many Vail Resorts rely heavily on J1 Visas mostly from South America.
One of the reasons is that they can’t find enough people to staff many roles.
When these employees leave, many ski areas struggle to find good employees, or employees at all.
Ski areas are in no way cheap to run.
Even just the money that goes into snowmaking is staggering.
Insurance also not cheap.
That said many of these ski areas are not exactly hurting.
The cost of housing and living in general is not at all cheap in many mountain towns.
These restaurants pay more in ski towns because it costs more to live across the board.
They have to, or they will have extreme difficulties finding employees.
Constantly having to train green employees, or struggling to even find any employees isn’t fun.
If the wages and working conditions don’t improve, this will be a constant battle.
A few corporate donations and some greenwashing to raise public opinion do not cancel out the other issues within.
Some places legitimately care about the environment and are looking to do something to make a difference.
Many are looking for a way to advertise, and improve public opinion of their company.
In 2017 Vail announced it’s journey to 0 campaign.
A campaign designed to reduced its net emissions to 0 by 2030.
I watched a guy finally get connected after an hour and forty seven minutes last year.
That’s just getting connected to the people he needed to reach.
Local doesn’t always mean things are all fine and dandy but it’s worth checking out.
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