I had the opporunity to meet with Gustavo Toro Velásquez, President of COTELCO, and Edwin Bernal, Director of Quality, during the tourism profesionnal fair ANATO in Bogotá. Cotelco is the main hotel and tourism association of Colombia.
It’s a technological crisis! My computer has been freezing up more and more often over the past weeks and my camera has left this world…Now more than ever I need good quality, operational equipment to document my visits to hotels as well as their sustainable practices, which are collected for Hopineo. It is for this …
After a week-long disconnect in the heart of the Cocuy National Park. we started off again towards Bogota. On our way, we decided to stop in Tunja, a one-day stop which ended up as a three-day stop following our meeting with Marelvy, co-owner of the Santa Viviana Villa de Leyva Hotel. She is also Director …
This brand new year arrived bearing a great gift: my friend Isabelle arrived to join me so we could travel together for one month through northeast Colombia. During these “holidays,” I am still going ahead a little with my project by visiting a few hotels along the way (see articles on Palomino and Barichara/San Gil). …
Nature’s most pristine accommodations at 4,300 m. Read More »
After visiting the Caribbean Coast, I continue through North-Eastern Colombia with my friend Isabelle (Isa). We spend a week in the Santander Region, and plan to make quick last-minute business stops at three hotels in the charming village of Barichara, next to San Gil: Hostel Color de Hormiga, Hotel Terra Barichara, and Eco Hotel El Ocaso. How …
Three Lightning Visits of Eco-Hotels with my friend Isa Read More »
First days of 2015, first steps in South America, first visit to Colombia … what a great bunch of ‘firsts’! My friend Isabelle (‘Isa’) joins me for a 15-day ladies’ trek along the Caribbean Coast, from Cartagena to the Guajira Peninsula, by way of the incredible national park of Tayrona … all of this with …
These past six months of gallivanting around Central America comprise the first chapter of this HopTour through Latin America which is now coming to an end. From Mexico to Panama, I gave a marketing boost to 25 hotels in exchange for room and board. I also took the opportunity to learn all their best practices …
These 6 last months rambling around Central America reserved me a wonderful bunch of surprises: budding speleologist, Indiana Jones girl, apprentice mermaid… I share with you a little bit of this magical cocktail of emotions through 10 unique experiences from Mexico to Panama: 1. Budding Speleologist …by exploring crystalline blue underground waters. Mexico, Yucatan, Cenote …
Villa Marina Lodge, where I spent my last month-and-a-half on Venao Beach, is really part of a larger investment made by a sizeable group of Panamanian investors (Grupo VerdeAzul). To thank me for my help, the manager kindly gave me a fabulous goodbye gift: two nights w/breakfast at one of their hotels during my stop …
It’s then from Panama that I finish this wonderful 2014 year. From Barcelona, to this Tour of Central America, 2014 was resolutely stamped by the learning of spanish language and by many changes, evolutions, at the personal and professional level. More than ever, I’m very happy with the direction that I took. If I had …
Day 190 : From Panama, where the year ends and starts Read More »
