Affiliate disclosure

SkiCortina is a ski guide that sometimes links to things you can buy or book. This page is the plain-language account of those links: which ones can earn money, which ones cannot, and what we refuse to do with either. It sits in the footer of every guide. If a product box and this page ever disagree, believe this page and treat the box as the thing that needs to be fixed.

Amazon Associates

The gear guide and the packing list link to products on Amazon.com. Every one of those links is built the same way: https://www.amazon.com/dp/ plus a ten-character ASIN, plus the Associates tag matteo029-20. There is no other tag in this project, and there is no link to a different Amazon storefront. A reader in Europe may find different availability on a shop local to them. That is their choice to make at checkout. Our link is the .com listing we checked.

The tag means SkiCortina may earn a commission if you buy through the link, at no extra charge that we control. Amazon sets the price, the shipping, the returns, and whether the size is still there. We do not. We also do not publish the price next to the product. A copied price is stale as soon as the listing changes, and a stale price is worse than no price. The sentence on the gear page is the one that matters for stock: each linked variant was in stock on the Amazon.com buy box on 15 November 2026. Stock is a fact about that day. It is not a promise about your travel day. If the size has sold through, pick another size of the same product.

The products are ordinary ski-trip objects: a helmet, a children’s helmet and goggle set, over-the-glasses goggles, ski gloves, a merino base layer, ski socks, a neck gaiter, hand warmers, a mineral sun stick, and a boot bag. They are not a complete kit, and they are not better than something you already own that fits. The rental page tells you to rent skis and, usually, boots. An affiliate link is a poor reason to buy a second pair of skis.

The relationship is Amazon Associates. The operator of this site is responsible for adding skicortina.org in Associates Central so the tag is valid on this domain. We cannot do that from the publishing desk. If a purchase does not attribute, that is between the programme and the tag, and it does not change the gear advice. Links use rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" so a browser and a search engine can see that they are advertisements.

Hotels and activities

The where-to-stay guide, the family guide, the weekend guide, the beginner guide, the summer guide, and the après-ski guide include a button that searches hotels or activities in Cortina d’Ampezzo. The intended commercial partner for those buttons is Stay22, which routes bookings to hotels and activity sellers and can pay a commission to a partner id. That id is not connected yet. The site config still holds an unset partner id that the templates are forbidden to print. While it is unset, the hotel button is a normal Booking.com search for “Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy”, and the activity button is a normal GetYourGuide search for Cortina d’Ampezzo. They are not affiliate links. The note above the button says so. When a real Stay22 id is added, those buttons should point at Stay22’s Allez routes, carry a sponsored relationship, and say that a commission may be earned. If you see a Stay22 URL on this site, that switch has happened. If you see a Booking.com search URL, it has not.

We do not embed a map widget that would break, spin, or ask for an id it does not have. A broken iframe is not a booking tool. A link you can read is a booking tool.

Direct programmes with Booking.com or GetYourGuide, outside Stay22, are not used here. If that changes, this page changes first.

What never carries a commercial link

The lift pass is sold by Dolomiti Superski and the Cortina skipass desks. We link to their pages so you can read the rules and the live lift board. Those are citations. They are not affiliate links, and a pass bought there does not pay this guide.

Scuola Sci Cortina is the ski school we describe because it is the school on Socrepes, with a published office and a published beginner course. The activity button may show other lesson providers in a search. The school’s own site is still the right place to book a Socrepes course. We do not add a tracking code to the school’s URL.

The Olympic and Paralympic pages cite the organising committee, Olympics.com, and the International Paralympic Committee’s results service. There is nothing to buy there now. The Games are over. Alpes 2030 is cited on the Olympic page as the next Winter Games, again as a source, not as a sponsorship.

Transport pages cite Fondazione Cortina, Cortina Express, ATVO, and Dolomiti Bus. Buy tickets from those operators. We do not clip a commission onto a coach seat.

No page links to a property listing, a real-estate agency, or a short-let dressed up as an investment. Cortina has a separate conversation about homes. This site is the ski conversation. Mixing them would make both less honest.

How the editing works

Guides are written by SkiCortina editors, which is a desk byline, not a fictional correspondent with a biography. The about page says that at more length. Facts that can go stale, especially prices, are left out. Facts that are easy to check, such as which mountain held the women’s downhill, are written to the official page and linked at the bottom of the guide. When a commission and a fact sit on the same screen, the fact is the Dolomiti Superski rule or the Games schedule, and the commission is the product box. You can use the guide and buy nothing. You can ignore the guide and buy the helmet anyway. The helmet law does not depend on our link.

If a sentence on a guide looks like an advertisement and is not inside a product box or a booking note, that is a mistake. The mountains do not need selling. They need a map, a pass, and a bus time.

What we do not claim

We do not claim a best hotel, a cheapest week, or a snow guarantee. We do not claim that a reader who clicks will have a better holiday than a reader who does not. We do not claim personal experience of a specific room we have not stayed in, and we do not invent a reviewer to star a piste. There is no review schema and no rating markup on this site. A hut is recommended because of where it sits, not because of a score.

We do not control the shops, the coach, the school, or the weather. A link is a door. The room behind it belongs to the company you are about to pay.