Snowcarbon (snowcarbon.co.uk), the website specialising in train travel to the Alps, has just launched a new journey planner which is set to revolutionise the way skiers and boarders plan travel journeys to winter destinations. The planner shows recommended train travel itineraries further in advance and more easily than anywhere else online.
Powered by a unique database, assembled in conjunction with leading rail companies, the Journey Planner enables skiers to view and compare the best daytime and overnight journeys for 32 ski resorts in France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Andorra, up to 12 months in advance, and includes transfer information from train station to resort.
“We’ve designed it so that ski resorts, tour operators, travel agents and accommodation providers, who want to proactively communicate train options to clients, can now do so, because the Journey Planner can be used as an iFrame within their website travel sections,” says Snowcarbon Director Daniel Elkan. “Skiers can view train schedules, powered by an accurate, updated, comprehensive central information source, without needing to leave the travel page of the ski website that they are on.”
Eric Chevalier, Director of Les Arcs ski resort in France, one of the first resorts to pioneer the Journey Planner, says: “Les Arcs is the perfect resort to travel to by train, with both direct and indirect options from the UK. Rail access is one of our important strengths and we’re really pleased to be able to communicate this to the British market with Snowcarbon’s Journey Planner.”
Photo: Daniel Elkan
