ABOUT SKIARE - SKIING IN ITALY
Skiare
is a ski tour company based in Australia and established in 1997.
Owners & operators, Thomas & Debbie Peintner specialise
in organising personalised & professional skiing tours to
Alta Badia, ITALY.
Skiare has enjoyed considerable growth over the past 10
years with 75% of their clients returning annually. They
have hand picked a select number of local European ski instructors
to ensure you have a great holiday. Having successfully
turned first time skiers into enthusiastic fanatics, it?s
the perfect combination of guiding and instruction that
makes every day and person a winner.
Your total Italian skiing experience awaits you with Skiare.
With a huge variety on ski runs to satisfy every level of
ability and enjoyment, you can ski a new run every day.
As a beginner you will enjoy long cruising runs, but for
those who seek high level adventure, let us take you skiing
where few men and woman dare to go.
it's our pleasure to take you there.

Thomas
Peintner
Born in Bolzano, Italy and raised on the ski fields of
Alta Badia, Thomas was a member of the South Tyrolean racing
squad by age 14. He has been a top level ski instructor
for the past 17 years, having worked in ski schools at Kaprun,
Kitzbuhel, Mt. Hotham and Perisher Blue. As popular as he
is experienced. Thomas’s passion for skiing is highly
regarded and his sense of fun makes the traditional mountain
hut a favourite rest place. His local knowledge, language
skills and professionalism are all important ingredients
that make Skiare such a popular choice.
Debbie
Peintner.
Debbie has 18 years experience in the airline/travel industry
looking after people’s needs. Along with Thomas, Debbie
has travelled to various corners of the world encountering
all kinds of obstacles. This experience has not only given
Debbie a great understanding of travel and people but also
how to fulfill expectations. Her warm, friendly and fun
loving attitude is enjoyable and her ability to work through
the unexpected is commendable. As a working mother filling
the position of Guest Relations for Skiare, her days are
always lively.
Micheal
Tavella
A true Ladino (local to the Badia Valley ), Michael has become
one of our most requested and popular ski instructors. With his
fun loving attitude and his genuine love of ski instructing he
provides all of Skiare Guests with a unique and fabulous skiing
holiday. He is forever going beyond the call of duty and with
his friendly personality he always calls those who ski in his
tracks a friend. Michael is happily married with 2 beautiful little
children. His communication skills are execellent and to our smaller
clientele he certainly is the “King of the Kids”.
Piero
Valpiani
Having completed Austria’s highest qualification in skiing
– “The Staatlicher Skileher Ausbildung” Piero
is a true Professional. He takes enormous pride in his role as
a Skiare Ski Instructor which has made him extremely popular amoungst
our return guests. His attention to detail is admired and his
ability to translate the theory of skiing into practise is excellent.
Piero grew up in Italy and Sweden and spends his winters between
Alta Badia, Italy and Kitzbuhel, Austria. His passion and enthusiasm
for skiing is contagious. He is ‘Pratically Perfect in Everyway’!!!!!!!!!
Mikki
Berg
Or as he likes to call himself, Mikki Montagna (Italian for Mountain)
is our resident Snowboard Instructor and twin-tip freerider. The
only thing that rivals his Scandinavian coolness is his winter
surroundings. His sense of humour and the ability to see the funny
side of life makes skiing with Mikki a real treat. Mikki was ranked
in the Top 20 on the FIS Snowboarding World Cup Circuit but now
enjoys passing on his experience to all snowboarding enthusiast.
He currently lives in Bolzano with his wife and 3 gorgeous daughters.