SNOW-BUS
A profitable activity becoming day by day more popular among Alpina users is the organization of snow-safaris and tours in natural areas, in ski-area districts or simply in mountain and snow destinations.
This is possible thanks to the Alpina SNOW-BUS with its exclusive configuration on the market.
Learn more here below and estimate the potential earning power of the Alpina SNOW-BUS with the Gain Calculator.
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Let’s get one thing straight right away: the payback period for a Superclass can be much shorter than what you imagine.
When you purchase a utility vehicle, beside the initial purchase cost, consider all the other economic factors involved: the insurance cost, the driver’s wage, the fuel consumption, the maintenance cost, the lifespan, or number of years it will do the job without needing to buy a new one.
Now consider the Superclass can do from 2 to 3 times the job of one “conventional” snowmobile, for much many years: the costs must be related to the job done, thus divided by 2 or 3 times. When you draw a line underneath these figures, you recognize that the Superclass is cheaper than other snowmobiles and snow-groomers. And this can radically change your point of view. Keeping consistent with the Italian standard of superior quality, Alpina will be sure to provide the best service and parts availability in the industry. You will always have a friendly person to speak with who can address your needs and options, either factory direct or with our preferred network of international distributors.
ALPINA SNOW-BUS
THE ALPINA SNOW-BUS
The Alpina SNOW-BUS is the combination of a snowmobile SUPERCLASS 1.2L VVT 12V configured with:
· Backrest
· Roll-over protection
· Work-lights kit
· 2-seats kit
· Towing ball-hitch
· TRANSALP-BUS trailer with 6 or 9 seats,
so according to the version of the TRANSALP trailer, the SNOW-BUS will totally carry up to 9 or 12 passengers (plus driver).
WHY SHOULD YOU SERIOUSLY THINK ABOUT A SNOW-BUS?
A profitable business becoming day by day more popular among Alpina users is the organization of snow-safaris and tours in natural areas, in ski-area districts or simply in mountain and snow destinations. The tours with the Alpina SNOW-BUS, either in the day or night-time, are particularly sought-after by tourists who don’t want to engage in winter sports but want to enjoy anyway the winter and mountain scenery, surrounded by the stillness of the nature, in the enchantment of a comfortable sleigh ride and in full safety.
This activity can generate a significant revenue without the need of a bulky organization; whereas, for those who already operate an Alpina snowmobile for different purposes (like grooming nordic ski-trails, etc.) this activity will become a complementary income source, operating the same machine when it is not used for other tasks.
The Alpina SNOW-BUS will not only generate an income from tickets sale, but will boost other collateral tourist activities (bar, restaurants and accommodation facilities), attracting new tourists which until now have never considered a snow destination because they do not ski nor find interesting activities in a ski-area. Restaurants, mountain huts and bars which normally would work only during the slope opening hours, can hence extend their business up to dinner time and later, offering the customers a shuttle service with the Alpina SNOW-BUS. They can organize after-ski parties and dinners, and then drive guests home safely with the cosy snow-bus under a starry sky.
Examples
Let’s give some examples
Anders runs a shuttle service with 2 Alpina SNOW-BUS in the north of Sweden. He connects a village to a resort in the back-wood, where tourists reach for accommodation and winter activities. The ride is 6 km long, round trip, and the shuttle service is open from Christmas to 1st of May, transporting an average of 3.100 persons per season with a turnover of 49.900 €, and a revenue of 40.100 € net of expenses (fuel and maintenance costs, vehicle amortization), before taxes.
Mihai is the owner of an adventure park in the Carpathians mountains. Besides ski slopes and other activities he offers snow-safari tours with 2 Alpina SNOW-BUS, on a 7 km ridgy road, where guests can watch the majestic mountain range and the animals tracks on the snow. The snow-bus service is active about 50 days per season, transporting an average of 3.700 persons per season with a turnover of 37.700 €, and a revenue of 27.800 € net of expenses (fuel and maintenance costs, vehicle amortization), before taxes.
These are just two among many successful examples of customers using Alpina SNOW-BUS to generate a revenue and increase the winter business of a resort or an individual. Are you interested to learn more and estimate the potential earning power of the Alpina SNOW-BUS in your case? DOWNLOAD our free SNOW-BUS GAIN CALCULATOR, and enter the requested data in the SETTINGS sections. You will be amazed by the results. Only with Alpina SNOW-BUS you can achieve this level of success!
Gain calculator
GAIN CALCULATOR
As we previously said, the Alpina SNOW-BUS is the combination of a snowmobile SUPERCLASS 1.2L VVT 12V configured with:
· Backrest
· Roll-over protection
· Work-lights kit
· 2-seats kit
· Towing ball-hitch
· TRANSALP-BUS trailer with 6 or 9 seats
According to the version of the TRANSALP trailer, the SNOW-BUS will totally carry up to 9 or 12 passengers (plus driver).
The SNOW-BUS GAIN CALCULATOR is a spreadsheet optimized for PC with MS Excel, which calculates the potential revenue attainable by operating an Alpina SNOW-BUS for transporting persons upon payment of a ticket.
Download the file to your PC and double click on it. You are requested to enter all the GENERAL SETTINGS and the TRIP SETTINGS, which reflect the parameters of your situation and the place where you suppose you would operate your snow-bus activity. Please fill all the requested fields.
The RESULTS section will display some estimated information based on the parameters you have entered, and finally the estimated NET REVENUE per one winter of activity. The estimated net revenue is obtained after paid the fuel cost, the maintenance cost (parts + labor, supposing an average mechanic cost of 50 € / hour), and the depreciation cost. The depreciation cost is the estimated purchase cost of the SNOW-BUS split over 10 years activity. The 10 year depreciation time is a parameter used by convention, however the lifespan of Alpina machines is much longer, proof is most of the machines manufactured by Alpina from its foundation in 1996 are still into service.
DOWNLOAD THE SNOW-BUS GAIN CALCULATOR
NOTE: the calculator does not take into account the driver’s wage, as this can be hardly reckoned due to the infinity of variables. Just two examples: sometimes the driver can be the owner or a relative of him, sometimes the driver it’s an employee who already draw his salary for other appointments in the ski-area, sometimes he can be paid on a daily or hourly basis, etc. If you want to estimate a diver cost on hourly basis, you can use the ESTIMATED OPERATION HOURS / YEAR in the RESULTS section.
DISCLAIMER: the calculator will use your parameters together with some predefined data resulting from statistics on other Alpina customers running a similar business. For this reason Alpina cannot warrant that these data used for the calculations, and hence also the results, fully reflect the reality of the user of this spreadsheet. We suggest to contact your nearest Alpina dealer for a more accurate information.