Cooperation Partners

Our network consists of highly professional and dedicated team members and cooperation partners. We offer our clients a wide range of competence at Cologne, Germany, and Nenzing, Austria. Our consultants have long-term consultancy experience and thorough knowledge of the tourism industry.

Christoph Schrahe

Christoph Schrahe travelled ski resorts all over the world and worked for some time in a Swedish ski area after studying geography and obtaining a degree in business administration. He was then employed as a senior executive in the travel industry. In 1996 he became a product manager for navigation software at Bosch company. As a side job he set up a ski area project in a German low mountain region in the course of which he developed the SnowPlan simulation programme in cooperation with the SLF in Davos. In 1999 he returned to the travel industry as a consultant.

As a senior consultant at ift Freizeit- und Tourismusberatung he managed numerous projects relating to regional and product development. He carried out winter sports studies for the Ministry of Economics of the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Thuringia relating to profitability, development of measures, economic effects and especially snowmaking systems. He initiated a master plan for ski areas in the Sauerland in the course of which 70 million Euros were invested into improvements of the ski area infrastructure. He carried out several feasibility studies in the field of snowmaking in the Sauerland and Harz mountains as well as in the Alps and in Eastern Europe. For several years he acted as a consultant for the Postwiesen ski area in Winterberg which could increase its turnover by 800% in this period – without building a single new lift.

At the University of Applied Sciences in Ravensburg Christoph Schrahe has been lecturer of the course for ski resort management. He has also been a keynote speaker at the International Forum on Skiing Industries Cooperation that was held in Harbin, the capital of the booming winter sports region Heilongjiang in north-eastern China. Most recently he was a keynote speaker at the first World Winter Forum in Vienna in October 2005. Christoph Schrahe was also a keynote speaker at the World Winter Forum in Vienna and is a regular speaker at the German Seminar for Tourism.

Christoph Schrahe is one of Germany's best known travel writers specialising in winter sports and has visited more than 300 ski areas in 28 countries on six continents, including several ski areas in Chile and Argentina about which he published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Ski Magazin and other publications. Further to publishing several books such as »Ski Weltweit« (1994) and »Vista Point Ski Guide Nordamerika« (2005), he published hundreds of articles in renowned German, Swiss and Austrian daily newspapers and magazines such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Hamburger Abendblatt, Kölner Stadtanzeiger, Die Südostschweiz, Stern, ADAC Reisemagazin, Lufthansa Magazin, Fit for Fun, Max, Brigitte, Schweizer Familie and Men's Health.

He also contributes to all ski guidebooks on the German market. For the »DSV Ski Atlas« of the German Skiing Federation (Deutscher Skiverband) he is the responsible editor for all American and Scandinavian ski resorts, for the »ADAC Ski Guide« (German Automobile Club) he contributes all editorials regarding ski resorts outside the Alps. Christoph Schrahe also reported about ski resorts around the world on various TV- and radio channels (ARD, ZDF, WDR, SWR etc.).

Markus Gamon

Mag. Markus Gamon MSc (Managing Director Gamon & Partner) has joined the team of Montenius Consult.

He studied electrical engineering, law, economics and social sciences. Moreover he acquired additional qualifications in the fields of controlling, network management and human resources management. After working as a controller for Hilti in the principality of Liechtenstein he worked for eight years as a business and marketing manager for Silvretta Nova Bergbahnen AG, one of the leading ski areas in Austria. Since 1995, he has also been a member and representative of the region of Vorarlberg within the marketing forum of the Association of the Austrian Cable Railways. In 1998 he acquired the Diedamskopf ski area for Silvretta Nova Bergbahnen AG and was appointed as managing director of the Diedamskopf ski area. He rebuilt it with a total investment of 25 Mio. Euros and the visitor numbers more than tripled under his successful management. He also dealt with planning processes in ski resorts within the European GIS-research project Catesian.

Since 2001 Markus Gamon is a self-employed business consultant and entrepreneur and since 2006 he is lecturer for controlling at the University of the Principality of Liechtenstein in Vaduz. His company runs several hotels and restaurants and Markus Gamon is a certified Basel-II Consultant.