While Chinese teenagers are still struggling with standardized test scores, winter skiing and summer sailing have long been traditional extracurricular activities or even lifestyles for many young people abroad. In 2018, Taiwu Ski Resort partnered with Beijing Sailing Center to establish the country’s first joint teaching base for winter skiing and summer sailing, and launched the “Winter Skiing & Summer Sailing” program, offering campers year-round premium outdoor sports experiences.
The highly anticipated 24th Winter Olympic Games will be jointly hosted by Beijing and Zhangjiakou, marking the first time China has held a Winter Olympics in its history. The government advocates for 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports, and youth involvement in winter sports and snow culture studies has become a growing trend. The “Winter Skiing & Summer Sailing” program is a collaborative effort between Taiwu Ski Resort and Beijing Sailing Center, leveraging their brand strengths to provide an experiential education platform for youth in both skiing and sailing. This winter and summer camp package is designed to help parents choose the best ski and sailing bases for their children (each season), offering high-quality “skiing & sailing” camp activities and a healthy, sunny lifestyle.
For years, “gaps and disconnections” have been a pain point in camp education. The “Winter Skiing & Summer Sailing” camp delivers a powerful solution: one registration, two skills, multiple levels of advancement. It creates exciting, year-round, progressive, and sustainable camp experiences for children and teens, while providing parents with thoughtfully curated full-season services. Kids will experience the Olympic atmosphere in dual international-standard venues, broadening their global perspectives. Through theory and practice, they will gain valuable skills and earn recognized certification, making achievements visible. Meanwhile, diverse camp activities and multicultural experiences are designed to enhance critical thinking, emotional intelligence, leadership, teamwork, and other soft skills—comprehensively elevating children’s inner qualities and nurturing them into globally minded “little citizens” equipped with both hard and soft skills.
The combination of winter skiing and summer sailing not only offers youth premium camp experiences but also represents an innovative move in the camp education industry. As a council member of the China Camp Education Alliance (CCEA), Taiwu and Beijing Sailing Center have integrated their camp resources, joining forces amid differences to set an example for promoting diversity and prosperity within the camp education sector.
Taiwu Natural Camp is one of the first institutions among national ski resorts to focus on camp education. It is a council member of the CCEA China Camp Education Alliance and a member of the ICE China Camp Education Research Institute. It regularly provides high-quality camp courses and activities for youths aged 5–18. The Taiwu Winter Camp leverages superior natural snow resources and abundant facilities to run skiing programs for children and teens, creating a diversified camp experience centered on mountain skiing combined with art, foreign languages, and technology. Beijing Sailing Center (BSC) is a camp education institution based on sailing, located in Beijing/Beidaihe. It is China’s first sailing camp organization and a founding council member of the CCEA. With a mission to “perfectly integrate camp education with sailing to support the physical and mental growth of youth,” the center brings 12 years of successful operational experience and has cultivated a strong sailing camp culture, serving as a benchmark brand for domestic summer sailing camps.
As a joint creation by top-tier domestic camp education institutions, this “Winter Skiing & Summer Sailing” product is highly anticipated. In the future, Taiwu Ski Resort will continue to deepen its involvement in the field of camp education, setting an example and contributing to the development and growth of China’s camp education industry. For more details, please contact the official customer service of Taiwu Ski Resort or Beijing Sailing Center.