Around 650 delegates arrived throughout the duration of the weekend at the Grand Fiesta Americana Coral Beach Cancun, with Saturday and yesterday having been the official arrival days.

The remaining participants are expected to arrive today.

More than 80 Member Associations are due to be represented at the Congress, the 50th in the world governing body’s history.

The opening day has seen the FIS Council begin the process of meeting with their Technical Committees, Sub-Committees and working groups, with their meetings scheduled to draw to a close on Wednesday (June 8).

Tomorrow will offer candidates for the 2020 FIS Ski Flying World Championships and the 2021 FIS Alpine, Nordic, Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships a chance to show off their concepts to delegates when they present to the Council.

Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy is set to host the 2021 International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine World Ski Championships after being confirmed as the only candidate last May.

FIS had also revealed last year that bids had been received for the 2021 Nordic World Ski Championships from Oberstdorf in Germany, Trondheim in Norway and Planica in Slovenia, which has also applied for the 2020 Ski Flying World Championships.

A final decision is set to be made on Thursday (June 9).

The FIS Congress itself is due to take place on Saturday ( June 11), where a summary of the decisions made by the governing body’s various Committees’ will be presented.

Among the items on the Council’s agenda are approving the budget, electing the 16 FIS Council members for a two-year period and ruling on a proposal which would see the representative of the Athletes' Commission, which is elected by the athletes themselves, becomes an ordinary Council member rather than an observer as is presently the case.