NEW YORK: In the wake of the destruction of Two Elks restaurant by radical environmentalists, Vail Resorts has selected New York-based GCI Group for a crisis response program.

The program aims to focus media and public attention back to the many attractions of the mountains as the ski season opens this month.

'All they lost was one restaurant and some collateral facilities,' GCI executive vice president Jim Cox said. 'We focused on the opening of the season.' The Vail program ...