| A drop in tourist numbers earlier this year has made | | | | before this season, disastrously no sustained snow |
| the ski country of Andorra realise that they need to | | | | periods arrived until March. |
| do more to attract skiers for the 2008 season and | | | | No official figures have been released yet as to how |
| beyond, and they're investing heavily for future | | | | many tourists visited this year, but some officials are |
| seasons to return the country to a dominant ski | | | | reported to be guessing at a year on year fall of ten |
| tourist destination. | | | | per cent. Private businesses suggest the figure could |
| After several years of attracting some ten million | | | | be closer to forty per cent. Given that private |
| tourists to her ski slopes between early December | | | | businesses see financial figures on a daily basis most |
| and late April, visitor numbers slumped in the 2006/7 | | | | people in the Andorra tourist industry are veering |
| season due to the lack of snow, a problem shared | | | | towards the higher forty per cent figure rather than |
| with many other European ski resorts. | | | | what could be an optimistic official estimate. |
| While the snow would often start in early November | | | | |