About the Author Francis Johnston was born in County Down, Northern Ireland and is the founder and proprietor of Ski-Ride Productions. Francis was previously employed at senior management level in overseas resort operations and travel-trade training/sales with some of the UK's leading Villa, Ski and Lakes & Mountains tour operators; based in Andorra, Portugal, Spain and the UK. He has also worked in or visited most of the leading French, Austrian, Italian and Eastern European ski resorts and personally accompanied well over four thousand holiday-makers and travel industry professionals during that time.
Francis has written numerous magazine and newspaper features on snowsports, Alpine activities and Lakes & Mountains holidays; he created the
SkiSpots
travel guidebook series, published by Thomas Cook, and is a contributing author to the
Ski Atlas of the World, published by New Holland.
