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- BUSINESS, Page 85Business NotesRESORTSThere's No Biz Like Snow Biz
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- Kamori Kanko Co. is heading downhill -- and happy about it.
- Early this month the Japanese tourism firm said it had agreed to
- buy Heavenly Valley, the ski resort near Lake Tahoe, for an
- estimated $90 million. The sale would mean that Kamori Kanko
- will play host to more U.S. skiers than any other company. The
- firm, controlled by Sapporo businessman Katsuo Kamori, 83, and
- his son Kimihito, 47, also owns the ski resort of Steamboat
- Springs, Colo., which the Kamoris bought last year for a
- reported $110 million. The elder Kamori has not confined his
- interest to the slopes. Besides owning amusement parks and golf
- courses in Japan, he has converted an Australian farm to a
- wildlife sanctuary, earning him the nickname Mr. Koala.
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