About Us

At Discovering Americas, we create unique, authentic, transformative, and memorable travel experiences that connect your passengers with the local culture.

We contribute to the growth of tourism in Latin America, increasing the number of travelers to non-traditional destinations.

We develop Fair Trade practices with local communities and contribute in a direct and real way to their growth.

We work to reduce the carbon footprint on our trips. We motivate clients to compensate for it with contributions to the restoration and conservation of forests.

How Our Adventure Started

We have been involved in the Hotel and Tourism Industry for more than two decades, we collaborated for some big hotel chains and local/regional incomings in Ecuador. We were colleagues, clients, suppliers but overall  we are friends. 

Friends sharing the same vision, we discussed about entrepreneurship, quality and authenticity and we realized that most travel companies are not the richness multiplicator that tourism is supposed to be. Most of companies just include light visits to local communities and leave just a little and in the majority of cases nothing at all. 

We then decided that our company be a real generator of welfare for the small providers and communities involved in tourism activities.  

We founded Discovering Americas with the purpose of making the dream of those who seek unique experiences in this diverse and colorful continent come true.

For this reason, we handle a responsible and conscious tourism model that allows conservation and retribution to the local communities that lend us their environments and share their ancestral knowledge.

We want to be a true generator of wealth and transformation for visitors and local communities.

Come and feel the marvelous experiences in our unique destinations!

Sandra & Wendy

Our Sustainability Promise

Our  DNA is composed of sustainable and conservation practices that involves:

- Genuine and Transformational activities with our visitors which promote the exchange  with the local communities.

- Conscious, and fair trade practices with our providers. We benefit local providers that have like-minded practices and handles fair work conditions and ecofriendly and sustainable protocols

- Our experiences generate a true understanding and respect between visitors, and local communities. We include retribution activities to value and keep alive their ancestral traditions

- We include compensation activities for the restoration of forests and environment to Offset Carbon Footprints.

-  As a part of our commitment to sustainability and travelers comfort, we have introduced our new eco-friendly welcome kit.

Included in your welcome kit is a cutting-edge water bottle crafted from biodegradable wheat fibers. This innovative material aligns perfectly with our efforts to minimize our environmental footprint.

Our Certifications

We are have engaged with with the Travelife  for Tour Operators & Travel Agent scheme. Travelife is an internationally recognized, GSTC -Global Sustainable  Tourism Council accredited trainning, management & certification program in sustainability in tourism.

Travelife is a three-stage Certification program for Tour Operators and travel agents : (1) Travelife Engaged ; (2) Travelife Partners and (3) Travelife Certified. We are at stage 1 - Travelife Engaged . We are working to move forward to stage 2 - Travelife Partner.