Cardrona Alpine Resort snow sports manager Bridget Legnavsky told the Otago Daily Times the international recession had impacted on funding programmes for some northern hemisphere-based teams.
Funding cuts had been felt "across the board" by many national snow sports team headquarters after an economically lean northern winter, she said.
The Norwegian ski team has dropped its traditional New Zealand off-season visit, while the Swiss and United States teams had also been forced to scale back some aspects of their training programmes, she said.
However, international snowboarding and free-skiing teams were still arriving "en masse as they usually do", to take advantage of New Zealand's winter.
Cardrona had expanded its facilities this year to take this into account, she said.
Coronet Peak ski area manager Hamish McCrostie said the Queenstown skifield would host four international alpine ski teams for training this year.
While he was unsure whether numbers would be affected by funding cuts for racing programmes, he could say Coronet Peak had attracted teams because it was the alpine ski base for the Winter Games.
Skiers from the world champion US team, Canadian, Swiss, and Swedish national teams would train at Coronet Peak's specialist alpine downhill course, he said.
"The lanes are booked and we have no indication [the teams] intend to change their mind," Mr McCrostie said.
Coronet has a training area, specifically prepared and exclusively set aside for alpine racing, so commercial operations were not affected, he said.
Hosting alpine ski teams was often a juggling exercise, to ensure their requirements did not impact on skifield visitors, Mrs Legnavsky said.
Cardrona would host the Swedish and Canadian alpine ski teams, again, at separate times, she said.
Treble Cone acting managing director Tim Hudson echoed Mrs Legnavsky's sentiments about "the customer coming first".
He dismissed speculative reports that his skifield had "dumped" international ski teams after a management change.
The Austrian ski team had cancelled ski lane bookings with Treble Cone in February as a result of funding cuts, he said.
The German snowboarding team is coming to hold their training camp, while individual registrations for the Treble Cone Ski Racing Academy, "many of them from overseas", had more than doubled.
Treble Cone had told international alpine ski teams they were welcome, but they would come second to the requirements of paying customers, he said.
The Remarkables ski area manager Ross Lawrence said the skifield did not have international ski and snowboard teams visit for "organised training programmes".
