Aspen, CO – Rocky Mountain Tours, a 47-year-old ski tour operator based in Pennsylvania that does business under the skithewest.com domain, has been acquired by Aspen, Colo.-based Ski.com, North America’s largest provider of ski and snowboard vacations and owner of multiple travel brands including Summer Mountain Travel, Aspen Snowmass Central Reservations, The Travel Agents and CollegeSkiTrips.com.nRocky Mountain Tours will continue to operate independently for the foreseeable future to preserve its brand and relationships with its client base. However, the company will now utilize Ski.com’s lodging and ancillary product inventory and resources, including proprietary reservation system, online booking engine and in-house web development and design team.

“Rocky Mountain Tours nicely complements Ski.com’s business model, allowing us to further grow our market share and distribution opportunities,” said Harry Peisach, president and CEO of Ski.com. “This acquisition strengthens Ski.com’s position as North America’s leading provider of mountain vacations both for our supplier partners and our customers.”

“After a successful 47 years of selling ski vacations, we are very excited that the next chapter is the acquisition by Ski.com,” said Darryl Matevish, president of Rocky Mountain Tours. “Rocky Mountain Tours and Ski.com share the same ideals and we look forward to working with them to ultimately provide an even better experience to our customers.”

With this acquisition, the Ski.com group sales department, combined with Rocky Mountain Tours’ group sales team, becomes North America’s largest provider of mountain travel to ski groups, clubs and councils.