Released on: October 23, 2008, 6:32 pm

Press Release Author: O.B.S. d.o.o.

Industry: Entertainment

Press Release Summary: Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 23, 2008 - Since yesterday, web
surfers can view the first part of the series 12 Steps to Ski like a Pro. First
episode covers Long Carving Turns. Series is made by online booking website
www.MountVacation.com. The series, intended for intermediate level skiers who want
to improve their technique, is presented by the ski champions Urska Hrovat and
Christian Mayer.

Press Release Body: Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 23, 2008 - Since yesterday, web
surfers can view the first part of the series 12 Steps to Ski like a Pro. First
episode covers Long Carving Turns. Series is made by online booking website
www.MountVacation.com. The series, intended for intermediate level skiers who want
to improve their technique, is presented by the ski champions Urska Hrovat and
Christian Mayer.

It is common knowledge among ski instructors that intermediate skiers who sign up
for ski classes want to improve their technique for two distinct reasons: to ski
better of course, but also to look better on the slopes. It is in that mind-frame
that the 12 videos, each lasting from three to four minutes, have been designed. In
every video, a different technique is presented by Urska Hrovat or Christian Mayer,
and a few on-slope exercises are also suggested and demonstrated. At the moment,
video is available at http://www.youtube.com/user/MountVacation.
Later, this video and 11 following clips will be released weekly and made available
in the Our Community section of the website. Just in time for the opening of the
2009 season, regular viewers will learn various carving techniques to make their
skiing more efficient, and also jumps, skiing in formation and other fun technical
elements to impress fellow skiers on the mountain. This week's clip, Step 1, is
about long carving turns.

The Slovene Urska Hrovat and the Austrian Christian Mayer are certainly well
qualified ski instructors. In career, Urska has cumulated at the F.I.S. Slalom World
Cup 14 podiums and was 62 times among the top 10 racers. Christian, for his part,
has won two Olympic medals and 7 victories in 29 podiums at the F.I.S. Slalom World
Cup. He thinks that intermediate skiers form one of the most important groups to
address: " When they reach the intermediate level, skiers are at a critical stage of
their development. They ski well enough to enjoy themselves on the slopes, but can
still greatly benefit from additional training. That little extra can allow them to
refine their style and efficiency, and thus to reach the advanced level. "

MountVacation.com - Global Mountain Vacation Specialist was the initiator and is the
official sponsor of this project. For Dejan Romih, CEO of MountVacation.com,
producing and featuring 12 Steps to Ski like a Pro on the website were the obvious
choices: " MountVacation.com is not only about selling ski packages but also about
making the ski tourism industry grow. We believe that the production and diffusion
of that series will contribute to that objective. " The website, in operation since
the end of 2007, is more than just about online booking of mountain accommodations
and packages. It is a real Web 2.0 generation website that allows users to review
the ski resorts and accommodations they visited to help others make their choice of
mountain destination. It also enables users to share with their peers their mountain
vacation photos and videos.

But MountVacation.com is foremost a booking platform of mountain accommodations and
mountain vacation packages, even if it presents on its website a diversified offer
of goods and services intended for the ski enthusiasts (and some are free). At this
time, more than 35 000 offers are available in 400+ ski resorts of Andorra, Austria,
France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland. Visitors can search and
complete their purchase in four languages and can count on an online customer
service in that many languages.

The shooting of the 12 steps took place last September in the Netherlands in an
indoor winter sport resort. The SnowWorld in Landgraaf, also a sponsor of 12 Steps
to Ski like a Pro, boasts five slopes, accessible by eight lifts, with great
year-round snow conditions. Furthermore, like in any alpine resort, skiers at the
SnowWorld have restaurants and bars to choose from to spend a pleasant apres-ski,
and can even stay on-site at the all new Sporthotel. The ski ans snowboard
manufacturer Elan also contributed to the project.

Part of OBS d.o.o., MountVacation.com is among the first, and one of the few,
mountain resort online catalogue and booking system. Founded in November 2007 by
Dejan Romih, the company has won many awards, among which are the Best Business Plan
2007 Competition organized by the main business institutions of Ljubljana, Slovenia,
where the company's offices are located, and the Best Business Idea competition
organized by the newspaper Finance. It is also one of the promising start-up
companies members of L.U.I. and it received investments from the Business Angels of
Slovenia.

For further information contact: OBS d.o.o., Maude Choquette, at +41 44 586 03 40 or
maude [at] mountvacation.com.


Web Site: http://www.mountvacation.com

Contact Details: O.B.S. d.o.o.
Vojkova 63
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
+41 44 586 0340
http://www.mountvacation.com
mountvacation@gmail.com