Not just an author, I'm also an experienced travel and wintersports' journalist.

My first ski trip was in 1973 when I fell in love with the mountain lifestyle in the Alps at the age of 12. After 47 ski seasons (never missing a winter) and 14 years of ski journalism, I'm thoroughly versed in most aspects of the ski and snowboard industry and love researching and investigating new developments in wintersports. I write a non-profit ski blog, ‘One, Two, Ski!’ (http://www.onetwoski.blogspot.com/) and I'm the co-author of Winter Sport Tourism (http://www.goodfellowpublishers.com/wintersporttourism) as well as several other tourism textbooks all included on this site.

Since 2005 my ski and general travel articles have been published in multiple outlets both in print and online. For example in Canada: Ski Canada Magazine, Globe and Mail, Calgary Herald, SnowOnline News for skicanada.org, Ski Pro Mag, canada.com network, Calgary Sun, canoe.ca network, Calgary’s Child Magazine, More Magazine, Alberta Hospitality, BC Inn Focus and Eat.Drink.Travel magazine. In the USA: SNOW magazine (thesnowmag.com), LA Times, Boston Globe, The Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, Sheen Magazine, HotelExecutive.com and Huntingdon Beach News. And in Europe: StyleAltitude.com for which I am the North American correspondent, Silver Travel Advisor, ABC magazine, travelmag.co.uk and www.tripedia.info. There have also been many more over the years.

Every season my ski adventures take me to Canada, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Tahoe - and in the past I have lived, worked and skied all over Europe in ritzy resorts such as Verbier and Meribel. My latest tourism textbook was published November 2019:A Worldwide Guide to Retirement Destinations - published by Cambridge Scholars.

I'm living in Sun Peaks, BC, Canada for the winter, skiing every day. If you need content or someone to make a story about of your business or products, contact me at louise.hudson2011@gmail.com for snappy, sizzling suggestions.

With an eclectic background in the ski industry, retail, and British and Canadian academia, Simon is a fount of international experience, amusing anecdotes, and comprehensive customer service and hospitality information. He gets his cosmopolitan and creative ideas from a background at the University of Calgary, Canada, and the University of Brighton, England as well as visiting positions in Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Fiji, New Zealand, the United States and Australia. What a great job!

Between traveling, teaching, researching and writing academic papers, Dr. Hudson has managed to fit in 11 books: Snow Business; Sports and Adventure Tourism; Marketing for Tourism and Hospitality: A Canadian Perspective; Tourism and Hospitality Marketing: A Global Perspective; Golf Tourism; Customer Service for Hospitality & Tourism; Marketing for Tourism, Hospitality and Events; A Worldwide Guide to Retirement Destinations; and two books on the impacts of the pandemic on travel called COVID-19 & Travel and International Case Studies on Tourism Destination Management and COVID-19.

With his strong background in marketing, sales and advertising in both the travel and the fashion industries, Dr. Hudson is always interested in the bottom line. The marketing of tourism is the focus of his research and in addition to the books he has written more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters from his work.

If you need to pep up your next conference, invite Dr. Hudson as keynote speaker - especially if it is going to be in an interesting location!