For many of us winter means short days, long scary drives to work in the snow and ice. It means leaving for work in the dark and getting home long after the sun has faded away for the day. When this time of year comes around, you have two choices. You can either choose to hibernate all winter long where the only real light you get comes at the flick of a switch or you can cast off the doldrums and book yourself one of the many fantastic ski trips you can find to any one of dozens of ski resorts in North America or Europe.

With a minimum of looking around you can find ski trips to some of the best ski resorts in the world, this is the easy part and as long as cost is not an issue you can head of to ski Italy by connecting with your local travel agency or contact the Banff ski resort directly and make your own arrangements. However, very few of us can afford to book any kind of ski vacation in this manner.  Unless you happen to actual live in a ski resort town or are close enough to take a day trip to go skiing, you are going to have to look for the best ski deals you can find.

There was a time when you could walk into your local travel agency and ask them to take care of making those reservations and expect to get a reasonably good price. Today you are going to find that there are two problems with this process. First, you are going to be hard pressed to find a travel agency unless you live in a bigger town or major city and secondly, even if you can find one chances are very good that you are not going to like the prices they are going to quote you.

With the advent of the Internet, the vast majority of small travel agencies that used to exist in almost every town of decent size have ceased to exist. They have been replaced by a slew of online travel sites that have sprung up. Being online sites, they have far less overhead and can afford to offer ski deals at prices far lower than any bricks and mortar agency could ever dream of offering.

Lower overheads are only one reason why online travel sites can afford to keep the prices on their ski trips so low. The other is volume. As they are an online site, companies like World on Skis have access to a virtually endless customer base, whereas the traditional travel agent is limited to the local area around them. In much the same way as those membership warehouse stores buy in huge quantities and pass the savings on to you, an online travel site operates in much the same way.

Places like the Aspen ski resorts count on full occupancy all winter long in order to make a profit and while they would like to rent out every room, every day at full price, they are smart enough to know that in today's economy, this just is not going to happen. In fact most of them know that if they were to try and rely on this, they would be closing their doors. This works heavily to your advantage when you are looking for the best ski deals.

Because these resorts know that it is far better to make half as much on fully occupied rooms than it would be to try and make on 30-40% occupancy at full rate, they make special deals available to online travel sites that are far lower than you can get by yourself. They do this because they know that they can count on these travel agencies to help keep their rooms fully booked throughout the entire ski season.

As they get these incredibly low accommodations rates, these online travel agents will also negotiate with major airlines to get reduced rates. Once again the airlines are willing to offer cut rate prices to keep their seats as full as possible during the time of year when travel is traditionally lower.

The net result is that whether you want to ski in Italy of hit the slopes of the Banff ski resort, World on Skis can offer you the best ski deals you are likely to find anywhere either in an offline travel agency or at an online travel site. This way you can enjoy a great winter ski vacation this year when the snow flies.