{"id":1327,"date":"2018-05-22T07:48:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T07:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2018-05-22T07:51:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T07:51:26","slug":"courchevel-meribel-host-the-2023-alpine-world-ski-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/05\/courchevel-meribel-host-the-2023-alpine-world-ski-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Courchevel &#038; Meribel to host the 2023 Alpine World Ski Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was great news last week when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courchevel.com\/\">Courchevel<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meribel.net\/\">M\u00e9ribel<\/a> were confirmed as the joint hosts of the 2023 Alpine World Ski Championships.<\/p>\n<p>FIS confirmed the win for the two resorts in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/france\/les-trois-vallees\">Les 3 Vallees<\/a> at their international conference in Costa Navarino, Greece.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the International Ski Federation chose the French submission ahead of a competing bid from the Austrian resort of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/saalbach-hinterglemm\">Saalbach Hinterglemm<\/a> by nine votes to six.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1328\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/worlds2023.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/worlds2023.png 180w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/worlds2023-149x190.png 149w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/worlds2023-60x77.png 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FIS President, Gian-Franco Kasper said that the Courchevel-Meribel bid \u2018was very appealing with two top level resorts offering men&#8217;s and ladies&#8217; venues\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first time France has hosted the World Alpine Ski Championships since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/val-d-isere\">Val d&#8217;Is\u00e8re<\/a> in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s candidacy started way back in February 2016 and was led by Michel Vion, the President of the French Ski Federation. Their slogan \u2018Together for 2023\u2019 and the teamwork between the resorts was enough to persuade the delegates that theirs was the best proposal.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1330\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1330\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed.jpg 500w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed-190x127.jpg 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed-60x40.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The winning team gather around Michel Vion, with the mayors of both resorts Thierry Monin (M\u00e9ribel) &amp; Philippe Mugnier (Courchevel) Photo : Agence ZOOM<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The FFS (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ffs.fr\/landing.html\">French Ski Federation<\/a>) is hoping that the 2023 Alpine World Ski Championships will unite the entire country around skiing and promote France\u2019s mountain resorts, especially with children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/france\">France<\/a> has always been popular with British skiers and recent Ski Club of Great Britain research has shown that 48% of all UK ski holidays are taken in France.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.les3vallees.com\/en\/\">Les 3 Vallees<\/a> is probably the most famous ski area in the world and is certainly the largest. Many of the events in the Albertville Winter Olympics in 1992 were held in the region, including the Men\u2019s Slalom in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/les-menuires\">Les Menuires<\/a> and the Women\u2019s Downhill in M\u00e9ribel.<\/p>\n<p>For details of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/meribel\/catered_chalets\">catered chalets in M\u00e9ribel<\/a> and Courchevel, or indeed anywhere in France, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/contact.php\">contact the Chaletline team<\/a> for expert independent advice.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cou-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cou-logo.jpg 250w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cou-logo-190x57.jpg 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cou-logo-60x18.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/05\/courchevel-meribel-host-the-2023-alpine-world-ski-championships\/\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/worlds2023-149x190.png);\" class=\"thumb_crop\">https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/worlds2023-149x190.png<\/a><p>There was great news last week when Courchevel and M\u00e9ribel were confirmed as the joint hosts of the 2023 Alpine World Ski Championships. FIS confirmed the win for the two resorts in Les 3 Vallees at their international conference in &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/05\/courchevel-meribel-host-the-2023-alpine-world-ski-championships\/\">read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,38,353,140],"tags":[81,357,356,29,354,30,355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}