With its famously warm welcome and an unrivalled range of traditional resorts served by the world's best lift systems, Austria comes a close second to France in the UK ski holiday market - and it continues to grow, helped by reasonable prices. The book:- covers Austria's top 80 resorts in detail- is fearlessly frank and uncompromisingly impartial in its assessment of resorts- meets the needs of the many, not the few - rates resorts for every standard of skier- includes scores of photos and 30 mountain maps- is designed to be used, with sewn binding and cover flaps for convenient page markingConceived by the editors of Where to Ski and Snowboard, these new guides - researched and written to the same high standards - have less of the ephemeral detail that people can now get from the web, and more in-depth analysis of the merits of resorts - and coverage of more resorts, too.