Ski-france.com

What Ski-france.com does

Ski-france.com is a private online travel agency specializing in ski holiday accommodations across French and Swiss Alpine resorts. The company operates a direct-to-consumer booking platform that aggregates over 10,000 apartments, chalets, ski lodges, holiday flats, and holiday homes across ski areas including Les Trois Vallées, Paradiski, Tignes/Val d'Isère, Portes du Soleil, Grand Massif, Espace Lumière, Forêt Blanche, Serre Chevalier, and others, spanning the Northern Alps, Southern Alps, and Pyrenees regions. Its customer base consists of individual travelers, couples, families, and groups seeking ski holiday packages.

The platform is built around a real-time availability search engine and a secure SSL-encrypted online booking system supporting credit card and bank transfer payments, with the service accessible in 20+ languages through dedicated domain variants. Beyond accommodation, Ski-france.com offers ski pass booking as an integrated add-on with discounts of 10-55 euros per pass and free cancellation prior to arrival, and bundles ski and snowboard equipment rental via a partnership with SKISET at up to 50% discount. The platform is operated from Bayreuth, Germany with multilingual phone and email support.

Revenue is generated on a commission basis from accommodation bookings and ancillary ski pass sales. The company operates as a privately held entity with 11-50 employees, no disclosed funding rounds, and no public revenue figures. Marketing is conducted primarily through its multilingual website, organic social media presence on Facebook and Instagram, and multilingual SEO across European source markets.

Name

Ski-france.com

Legal name

Ski-france.com

Website

https://ski-france.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Ski-france.com is a private German-based online booking platform specializing in ski holiday accommodations across 10,000+ apartments, chalets, and lodges in French and Swiss Alpine resorts, serving individual travelers, families, and groups seeking ski vacations with bundled ski pass and equipment rental services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Ski Holiday Accommodation Booking

NAICS

Other Traveler Accommodation (72119), Other Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services (56159), Recreational Goods Rental (532284)

SIC

Hotels, Rooming Houses, Camps & Other Lodging Places (7000), Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Mountain & Ski Homes (THAMAAAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Snow & Mountain Unique Stays (Chalets, Ski Cabins) (THAMADAL)

Keywords

• Ski accommodation booking
• Vacation rental platform
• Ski resort marketplace
• Ski pass booking
• Holiday apartment rentals

Headquarters

HQ city

Bayreuth

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Operations

Revenue model

1. Accommodation Bookings: Commission-based revenue from booking apartments, chalets, and holiday homes across French ski resorts. Customers pay for their accommodation through the platform.
2. Ski Pass Sales: Ski passes sold through the platform with 10-55 euro discount per pass. Payment collected with final accommodation payment, no deposit required. Ski passes can be cancelled or modified free of charge prior to arrival.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Ski-france.com operates an online booking platform that aggregates 10,000+ apartments, chalets, ski lodges, holiday flats, and holiday homes across French and Swiss ski resorts. Customers use the real-time availability search engine to find accommodations, complete bookings online via SSL-secured credit card or bank transfer payments, and can optionally add discounted ski passes (10–55 euro discount) and rental equipment through a SKISET partnership. The service is available in 20+ languages to serve international ski holidaymakers.

Product overview

Ski-france.com is an online ski holiday booking platform offering a comprehensive suite of services for ski vacations. The core product is an accommodation booking system with over 10,000 apartments, chalets, ski lodges, holiday flats and holiday homes across major French ski areas (Northern Alps, Southern Alps, Pyrenees) and Switzerland. The platform integrates a real-time search engine, an online booking system with secure payment processing (credit card and bank transfer via SSL), ski pass booking with 10-55 euro discounts, and ski equipment rental through SKISET partnership. The service is accessible in 24 languages and operates as a booking intermediary connecting travelers with ski resort accommodations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 10-55 euro discount on ski passes purchased through the platform

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SKISETminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSKISET is a ski and snowboard rental partner offering up to 50% special discount on winter sports equipment rental for customers booking through ski-france.com. This partnership allows the platform to offer bundled accommodation and equipment packages.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• VRBO (Expedia): VRBO is a major vacation rental marketplace owned by Expedia with strong inventory in French ski destinations. It competes with Ski-france.com for the same family and group ski travelers booking larger chalets and apartments.
• Airbnb: Airbnb is the dominant global vacation rental marketplace with extensive inventory in French and Swiss ski resorts. While not ski-specialist, it competes directly for the same end-customer booking occasion and sets the benchmark for the short-term rental experience.
• Booking.com: Booking.com is the largest OTA globally and lists a significant share of French ski apartments and chalets. It competes with Ski-france.com on the same accommodation SKUs and benefits from enormous direct traffic and a mature app ecosystem.

Direct peers

• Peak Retreats: Peak Retreats is a UK-based ski holiday specialist offering self-catered chalet and apartment accommodation plus ski packs across the French Alps. Directly comparable to Ski-france.com in product, geography, and customer base.
• PowderBeds: PowderBeds is a UK-based ski specialist OTA focused on chalet and apartment bookings across the French, Swiss, and Austrian Alps. It targets the same international (especially British) ski holidaymaker that Ski-france.com reaches through its multilingual site.
• Le Ski: Le Ski is a UK chalet operator offering catered chalet holidays in French ski resorts including Val d'Isère, Tignes, and La Plagne. Comparable because it sells bundled ski accommodation in the same French resorts, even though its model leans more toward operated chalets than apartment rentals.
• HomeToGo: HomeToGo is a meta-search and marketplace for vacation rentals operating across Europe. It competes with Ski-france.com for the same international ski holidaymaker audience and aggregates inventory from many of the same French Alpine resorts.
• Interhome: Interhome is one of Europe's largest specialist vacation rental operators, focused on apartments and chalets in Alpine ski resorts. It is the most direct functional competitor to Ski-france.com given the shared model of brokering curated ski accommodation across the same French/Swiss resort set.
• Sunweb Group: Sunweb is a leading European package holiday operator with a strong ski holidays vertical across the French, Swiss, and Austrian Alps. It is comparable because it packages accommodation and ski passes into a single ski holiday, overlapping directly with Ski-france.com's bundled offering.

Emerging players

• Snowplaza (Skiinfo): Snowplaza/Skiinfo is a European ski content and booking platform covering French and Swiss resorts. Comparable because it funnels the same ski holiday searcher audience toward accommodation and lift pass bookings, often overlapping with Ski-france.com's SEO footprint.

Market position

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks1 record

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/skifrancecom
• Instagraminstagram.com/skifrancecom

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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