Leadership Exchange Travel

North American & European Mountain Destinations

Move beyond your own mountain range, your own state or even your own continent to learn and share ideas with other community and business leaders from across North America and Europe. In a world of virtual experiences and remote meetings, there remains no substitute for the knowledge, ideas and team building gained through travel exchanges with your peers.

Through Mountain Strategies, your staff, future leaders or your Board members and elected officials will gain lasting relationships and witness best practices in some of the most iconic mountain destinations in the world. Areas of focus during peer-visits often include; village planning and ski/gondola operations, business development, arts & culture, workforce housing projects, short-term rental policies, visitor management, multi-mode transportation solutions, and special event planning and execution.

During the trip-planning phase, Mountain Strategies will work with prospective attendees to build a trip that caters to the specific learning and experiences desired by the group.

Summary of the Town of Vail visit to St. Moritz, Switzerland in 2022:

https://www.vail.gov/Home/Components/News/News/578/

Mountain Strategies specializes in facilitating travel logistics, scheduling and facilitating business meetings along with planning a broad range of adventure/cultural experiences desired between communities. Whether you’re a leader from the Rockies, Northwest/BC, the Sierras or East Coast mountain resort destinations, we curate unique learning and adventure experiences that brings innovators together and offer fee structures that can meet diverse organization’s budgets.

Leadership exchange trips are curated and limited to small groups to maximize learning and excursion opportunities, generally between 8-10 individuals per trip maximum. Travel groups will be made up of attendees who have similar subject matter learning interests and a desire to learn from one another as well have some mountain adventure! Interested small groups or pairs will be matched with other small groups from various other North American mountain communities, or your organization can book an excursion for 8-10 individuals that is exclusive to your group.

A leadership exchange trip is currently planned for late-Winter 2026. Maximum group size of ten (10) local government leaders, business and nonprofit executives and innovative business or arts/cultural leaders. Final itinerary based on attendee list and desired destinations which may include several of the following mountain resort destinations: 

• Chamonix, France

• Verbier, Switzerland

• Zermatt, Switzerland

• St. Moritz, Switzerland

• Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy

• St. Anton/Lech, Austria

Contact us for more information and anticipated pricing:

scottgrobson@gmail.com