{"id":10831,"date":"2009-09-28T13:48:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T20:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=10831"},"modified":"2009-09-28T13:48:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T20:48:24","slug":"liftopia-adds-major-resorts-to-discounting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=10831","title":{"rendered":"Liftopia Adds Major Resorts To Discounting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/16072v1-max-150x150.png\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/16072v1-max-150x150.png','popup','width=150,height=63,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/16072v1-max-150x150-tm.jpg\" height=\"84\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"16072V1-Max-150X150\" \/><\/a>The bargain lift-ticket seller <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liftopia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Liftopia.com<\/a><\/strong> has added <strong>Whistler\/Blackcomb<\/strong>, <strong>Killington<\/strong>, <strong>Mammoth Mountain<\/strong>, <strong>Winter Park<\/strong>, <strong>Copper Mountain<\/strong>, and <strong>Stowe<\/strong>, to its list of discounter resorts this season, and rounded up $1 million more in funding, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/09\/24\/liftopia-raises-another-1-million-for-variable-ski-resort-ticket-pricing\/\" target=\"_blank\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Liftopia allows ski resorts to offer variable pricing for tickets based on much how traffic they anticipate seeing on the slopes \u2014 in other words, resorts can lower their prices if they think they\u2019re going to have a slow day the same way an airline does if a flight might not fill up. Some resorts have been able to do this to a limited extent with \u2018peak season\u2019 tickets (a ticket for Christmas time would cost more than one a month or two later), but up until now they haven\u2019t had a good way to adjust their pricing on a daily basis. Liftopia gives them this option.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Definitely something worth checking out this season. . . <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/09\/24\/liftopia-raises-another-1-million-for-variable-ski-resort-ticket-pricing\/\" target=\"_blank\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bargain lift-ticket seller Liftopia.com has added Whistler\/Blackcomb, Killington, Mammoth Mountain, Winter Park, Copper Mountain, and Stowe, to its list of discounter resorts this season, and rounded up $1 million more in funding, according to a story on TechCrunch. Liftopia allows ski resorts to offer variable pricing for tickets based on much how traffic they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10832,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831\/revisions\/10832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}