This was on Oliver’s Travels, ranking the top 5 apres-ski places in Europe. As a medical person , i am curious on the methodology (What is the ranking of best ski places based on.)

Methodology

To determine the most luxurious ski resorts in Europe, we first collated a list of the best-rated and most popular ski resorts across the continent and then analysed each on the below factors:

  • Number of Michelin Guide restaurants

  • Number of spa and wellness centres

  • Number of well-known high-end designer shops

We used a variety of credible sources* to find data for each of the above categories and then ranked the ski resorts based on this data. Ski resorts where a full dataset was not available were omitted from the index. Only the top 40 ski resorts were included in the final list. The full dataset and source list are available upon request.

*Sources include The Michelin Guide, Booking.com, The Telegraph and Conde Nast Traveler.