The Mount Hotham Alpine Resort Management Board (RMB), appointed by the Victorian Government, is responsible for the management of the Hotham Alpine Resort. The Hotham Alpine Resort operates all year round and is located within the Alpine National Park only four and a half hours drive from Melbourne and eight hours from Sydney. Hotham Alpine Resort covers an area of 3,450 hectares and has 245 hectares of lifted terrain serviced by 13 lifts, with an elevation of 1,861 metres. The ski field currently has 25 hectares covered by snow-making. During the winter season there are more than 500 staff employed across the resort by various operators. Hotham Alpine Resort is regarded as Australia’s premier alpine experience and as the skier’s mountain, with reliable natural and manmade snow, and some of the most challenging skier terrain in Australia. Hotham Alpine Resort is home to the highest alpine village in Victoria and is believed to be one of only three ski resorts in the world that has its village located on a ridgeline rather than in a valley. It is the only ski resort in Australia that has an airport located less than 20km from the Resort. The village, which has an area of 15 hectares, contains 4,375 beds. In 2018 there were 389,401 visitor days recorded in the Resort.