Analysis of French skiing resorts located in French Alps in relation to their potential use for skiing and snowboarding exkursions organised by The UK FTVS.

Research topic: Analysis of French skiing resorts located in French Alps in relation to their potential use for skiing and snowboarding excursions organised by The Faculty of Physical Education and Sport of the Charles University in Prague (UK FTVS). Aims and objectives: Describe selected French skiing resorts located in French Alps and evaluate their potential use for UK FTVS skiing and snowboarding excursions, based on the criteria set for this study. Data analysis methods: There are several methods used in this research. These are empirical methods of the scientific research, analysis of contents of appropriate literature used for the study as well as analysis of official websites of French skiing resorts. Moreover a comparison method using qualitative and quantitative assessing criteria was applied. These criteria where then compared in each individual skiing resort. Key words: Skiing resort, French Alps, skiing and snowboarding excursion. Findings: General analyses of the chosen skiing resorts were made. Based on these analyses, it was recommended which of the skiing resorts were the most appropriate for the excursions and which of their skiing slopes would have the best potential to be used for particular parts of the training.