Dec 17, 2020
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In an email to travel advisors and wholesale partners, Vail Resorts said it will not be paying commissions on lift tickets and ski lessons for select dates. Photo Credit: Jack Affleck
In what one ski specialist said appears to be an industry first, Vail Resorts is eliminating commissions on lift tickets and ski lessons booked for the upcoming holidays and other high-traffic dates.
Hannah Peterson, international sales manager for Vail, Beaver Creek, Keystone and Breckenridge, cited pandemic-related capacity limits at ski resorts in announcing the new policy in an email to travel advisors and wholesale partners Wednesday. We understand that this is a change from previous years, and we look forward to winter 21/22 when we can resume normal operations and eliminate any sort of commission blackout dates, she wrote in the email that was forwarded to Travel Weekly by several advisors. We are hoping you ll be able to sell around these commission blackout dates to conti