This is the best achievement of my profession. Last Friday, VAOVA Travel gained the SITE Crystal Award for Excellence in Incentive Travel: Latin America & the Caribbean , thought-about the best honor… | Juan Pablo Toro

This is the best achievement of my profession.

Last Friday, VAOVA Travel gained the SITE Crystal Award for Excellence in Incentive Travel: Latin America & the Caribbean , thought-about the best honor in our business, the Oscars of Incentive Travel.

What made me even prouder was listening to, as I acquired the award:
“You are putting Colombia on the map like no one else has done before.”

More than something, this award is a recognition to my nation , Colombia , a nation that has carried the load of historical past and endured many unfair stereotypes and prejudices. Today, it’s a nation reworked, able to emerge as essentially the most genuine and thrilling vacation spot in Latin America and the Caribbean for incentive journey.

In a single incentive journey, visitors can:
• Dance the evening away within the vibrant colonial metropolis of Cartagena
• Explore the plush espresso area within the Andes
• Relax on white-sand seashores alongside the Caribbean Sea
• Immerse themselves in world-class gastronomy.

Beyond this, Colombia is investing strongly in infrastructure and connectivity . This April, the nation will welcome a brand new Four Seasons in Cartagena, the fourth in South America and the third in Colombia, a outstanding property mixing historic heritage within the coronary heart of the Walled City.

Colombia additionally gives the fourth-strongest air connectivity with the United States within the Western Hemisphere and the strongest in South America, making it essentially the most visited nation in South America by the U.S. market in 2025. These are clear indicators of a rustic that has actually modified.

This award belongs to the greater than 40 passionate Colombians of our workforce , who consider in Colombia and in a unique sort of hospitality.

After the pandemic, we turned obsessive about constructing our Incentive Travel vertical. We invested deeply in vacation spot data and partnerships, in creativity & design , hospitality -understood as consideration to element and invisible gestures — in sustainability, and in flawless logistics and operations.

This award confirms that what we envisioned three years in the past is now a actuality and that we’re one of many main DMCs within the nation.

Of course, none of this might have been doable with out my husband, who has been a relentless supply of power and unwavering help all through this journey, and who stood by my facet as I acquired this award.

I’m additionally deeply grateful to my 4 mentors, who’ve guided me, challenged me, and believed in me , shaping not solely the chief I’ve grow to be, but additionally the imaginative and prescient and values that outline our firm at present. Bich-Lien Kaldahl Patricia Perez María Clara Faciolince

Attending the SITE Global Conference for the primary time opened my eyes to a unprecedented world .One that I’m satisfied I each need and have to be a part of, to proceed rising my profession within the incentive business and, simply as importantly, to maintain positioning my nation as a high vacation spot for incentive journey.

Colombia’s time is now and we’re proud to assist form its story.