Ever since a child, she dreamed about traveling around the world and therefore pursued a career in the Travel Industry.

Daniela's first job was as Hotel Receptionist in Mürren, one of the most romantic villages in the Swiss Alps. Since snow-covered slopes were her only view for months, learning how to ski became a must!

In 1992 she worked for Switzerland Tourism at the Swiss Pavilion at Expo'92 in Genoa, Italy. The following year she was selected as Chief Hostess/VIP Guide for the Swiss Pavilion at Expo'93 Taejon in South Korea.

Later on, while an Office Manager in Italy, and during her vacations she traveled to Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Mexico and the United States.

Daniela speaks four languages and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Languages and Literature. She joined SkiEurope/SkiCanada in 2000 and is now Marketing Manager.

Jean grew up near snowy Cleveland, Ohio, but has been warming up on the Gulf Coast for almost 25 years. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Communication from the University of St. Thomas in Houston and also studied international affairs at the university. In addition to writing, Jean enjoys a hobby in nature photography.

Jean joined the SkiEurope staff in July 2001.

Patrick lives in the Scottish Highlands and has offices overlooking Loch Ness.

He has worked as a ski journalist for 17 years, has had 14 travel books published as well as hundreds of articles and his contributions to atlases, CD ROMs and international guidebooks in Europe and North America. He was recently named "Travel writer of the year" in the Sports and Travel category of the North American Ski Journalists Association.

In 1991 after working on the staff of British ski publications, Patrick set up his own business Snow Hunter ltd, with the objective of finding every ski center in the world. He was surprised, ten year later, to discover he'd found 6000 in 80 countries, twice the previously acknowledged total.

In the process he'd built up the world's largest database of winter sports resorts, with over 3 million items of information and 500,000 words of resort description. This database, along with nearly 10,000 images, maps, logos, videos and web cam images will soon be online at: www.snow24.com.

Patrick's company now supplies many of the world's leading online companies including AOL, BBC, Microsoft and RSN with their winter resorts content. It also researches and publishes around 500 news stories yearly from the winter sports world.

The National Ski Club Newsletter publisher, Bob Wilbanks, began the publication in 1987 as a means for America's ski clubs to exchange ideas, and receive news and information about running ski clubs and ski club trips.

He has been a member of a ski club for the past 22 years and on the board of directors of clubs in Texas and Colorado as well as serving on several ski industry panels and committees. His articles about ski clubs and the singles ski market have appeared in Skiing Magazine, Ski Business, Ski Area Management and the National Ski Areas Association Journal.

The National Ski Club Newsletter is a trade journal read by 4,000± annually elected officers of 2,500+ ski clubs that contain one million± members located in all 50 states. The publication is an associate member of the National Ski Areas Association.

In fact as a travel writer, my "business" trips are usually as or more pleasurable than the trips I take on my own accord. Growing up with a mother determined to broaden my horizons far beyond the Rocky Mountain West where I was born and raised, my childhood trips didn't really qualify as "vacations." A "vacation" is something you come back from tanned, fattened-up and relaxed. I returned from Mom and my expeditions dirty, 10 pounds lighter and kissing the first available piece of my native soil.

In 20 years of traveling Mom and I have been interrogated in Columbia, hung out with headhunters in the jungles of the Borneo, bargained our freedom from raiders out in the Sahara desert, swum with piranhas in the Amazon and driven in Cairo during rush hour.

As a travel writer my biggest challenge is often saving room for desert at a swank mountain lodge.

Although I've been a freelance ski writer in my native Colorado for more than a dozen years, I'm still getting over the fact that I get paid to ski.

My travel writing appears on-line, in print and on the airwaves. As a freelance journalist I covers breaking news and regional trends for the Boston Globe. I have a nationally syndicated lifestyle column that appears in papers across the country, including The Washington Post and am working on my first novel. I'm also an adjunct professor at Colorado State University. My biggest challenge is keeping work from interfering with my mogul time. I feel incredibly lucky for the times that the two are one in the same.