Meet the Team Background Team
viventura is a professional tour operator. Thanks to our team we can make sure, that you get the most out of South America.
Andre | Colombia Admirer, Ceviche Fan & Salsafreak
After many years of preparation, Andre realized his dream of Viventura in September 2001. After leading the office in Arequipa for four years, he moved to Colombia in 2005. Now, his main responsibility is the marketing strategy of all of Viventura's international brands. He supports the South American partner offices from the office in Medellin. He analyzes each viTour to insure that they adhere to Viventura's core values. In addition to this he is in charge of strategic decisions and the active support of the association viSozial inc.
Carlos | Passionate Artist
Carlos Castaneda is from Bucaramanga, Colombia. His passions include, Tech systems, drawing, listening to music, photography and YouTube. He participated in projects in Bucaramanga positioning and web promotion, where he discovered a taste for SEO, Social Networking and online marketing. Carlos dreams of traveling around the world and experiencing many cultures. Currently, he is studying Economics at the University of Antioquia and its motto is "Give it your best, live your dream."
Deyby | Tech and life lover
Loves all kinds of tech and the Internet. Since he finished his studies in November 2002, he has been involved in Viventura's IT projects, especially our Web development. He shares his time between programming and teaching at a local University. He enjoys sharing time with his daughter and wife. He likes evening strolls and listening to music. Spanish Rock is his secret passion. And of course he loves Latin culture.
Erika | Taking care of details
Erika is from La Paz, Bolivia. She has a degree in Communication Sciences and is a super fan of design. She enjoys music, dancing, trekking, watching movies and spending time with family and friends. Erika likes crafts and small details, she can spend hours designing and making things like costumes, home decor or just planning a party. About a year ago, Erika moved with her husband and daughter to Medellin. They fell in love with the city at first sight. They decided to pack their suitcases and jump into this new adventure together. Despite being far away from their home country, their family and friends, they are now convinced that the challenge was well worth it. Erika is working closely with our Incoming Partner offices.
Gustavo | IT geek with joy of life
He loves the world of software. Long before he finished his studies as a system engineer, he had participated in various software projects in relation to process automatization in web environments. He has also been an occasional lecturer at Antioquia University. He likes sports and enjoys going to rock concerts. He spends much of his free time with his girlfriend and family.
Hendrik | a huge Chile fan
A soccer lover and big Bayern Munich fan, Hendrik has worked with viventura since 2003. Hendrik is responsible for the quality management of our partner offices in South America. He has traveled through all of the countries where viventura offers tours. Nevertheless Hendrik still hasn't seen everything that this many-faceted continent has to offer. You can certainly find him planning his next trip through South America.
Hendrik is an independent partner of viventura Reisen GmbH and supports our network from Santiago.
Johana | Loves music, food and travel
Johana has had the opportunity to live in both North and South America. She studied International Business in Medellin, Colombia. During her time in Colombia, she had the chance to travel to all of the beautiful destinations in this amazing Country, and is completely in love with its culture and its people. This has motivated her to travel a lot more, and to want to learn about other cultures in other countries. She is happy to be part of the Viventura team. Cross-cultural experiences and traveling are her favorite things!
Miguel | always smiling Colombian
Miguel embodies two cultures. Born and grown up in Germany he has always remained a Colombian. In Germany he represented for many years North and South American Airlines before he came back to Colombia in 2003. Beside traveling he likes good food, excursions of several days with his horse and also the Caribbean Vallenato rhythms. As a Colombian he loves the Colombian joy of life, the variety of the nature and the Indian cultural heritage, some thousandth of Indian's blood also flow in his veins.
Sarah | our Sunshine in Arequipa
Sarah studied tourism management in Germany and started with viventura as an intern in Arequipa in 2003. Because of that experience, she not only has fallen in love with Peru, she has decided to settle down here. Sarah is a helpful and bright person, who laughs a lot. In her spare time, Sarah hangs out with friends, loves to party and sleep till midday on Sundays. Since May 2007, Sarah manages the office in Arequipa with Miguel.
Stefan | twice a year in Colombia
On a tour through Peru and Bolivia in the beginning of 2003 Stefan got to know and to love the joy of life of the Latinos. After he had finished his studies in information technology as graduate engineer he worked for half a year in Arequipa and returned since then many times to South America, working in the various partner offices of viventura. Since 2005 he is the head of the IT team and is therefore often in the "headquarter" in Colombia, where he enjoys the moderate climate of Medellin - city of eternal spring - working below palm trees.
Yngrid | our Creative & Multi-talented Online Marketing Gur
Since the beginning of 2012, Yngrid has been in charge of Viventura's marketing branch. The native Arequipenian is a very positive and happy person, as well as very passionate about the arts, culture and new technologies.
Yngrid has been around since the beginning of Viventura. She has worked as a tour guide during her studies and was responsible Viventura's tour organization in Peru.
After four eventful years at Viventura, Yngrid took a break and traveled through Australia and Europe. During this time she specialized in online marketing, her second passion besides traveling.
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What Does Our Name Mean?viventura is a derivative of 4 ideas:
- vive (to live)
- aventura (adventure)
- event (event)
- tour (tour)
Social Engagement
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