And how Aspen provides for worker accommodation will be one subject of interest to Queenstown leaders.
Aspen Mayor Steve Skadron will be joined by assistant city manager Sara Ott, Julia Theisen, from the Aspen Chamber Resort Association, Kristi Kavanaugh Bradley, of Aspen Skiing Company and Elise Cohen, representing the Sister City office.
Their visit is a follow-up to a visit from Queenstown representatives, including Chamber of Commerce chief executive Ann Lockhart, to Aspen last year and was organised in co-ordination with the chamber.
Ms Lockhart said one of the first orders of business would be a rededication of the "Aspen Leaf" on the Village Green, erected to acknowledge the 25-year sister-city relationship.
The delegation would spend the remainder of the first three days in meetings with a variety of business, tourism and community representatives.
"[There will be] a number of presentations at council — everything from sustainability, environmental issues, traffic, infrastructure, transport [and] tourism."
They would also meet Central Otago winery representatives planning to invite some vintners to attend next year’s Aspen Wine & Food Festival, visit Queenstown Airport to learn about its master plan, meet skifield representatives and visit Wakatipu High School.
"We’re both obviously very well known resort areas, that’s why we’ve got the sister-city relationship because we do have a lot in common, but a lot of the issues that we’re facing they have already faced and continue to do in some way.
"Housing is a big issue for them as well, especially worker accommodation, because the downtown of Aspen is largely unaffordable for workers, so they have workers living out of town," Ms Lockhart said.
"Their housing issue is not sorted, but they’ve got quite a complex way — it’s almost like a ... multi-layer programme — to assist people into housing there, so those will all be very worthwhile conversations."
She also believed the Aspen delegation would learn a lot from Queenstown’s tourism marketing and promotion.
"They’re very interested in that and also to see what new ideas that we might have."
