Luxury Destination Management Company (DMC) in Colombia
WhereNext Travel is a luxury DMC creating tailor-made journeys across Colombia for discerning travelers, travel advisors, experience-led travel companies, and tour operators. From our base in Bogotá, our local team designs and operates every journey through deep destination knowledge, trusted local relationships, and seamless on-the-ground execution.
The world is full of
mundane itineraries.
We design travel that
WE WOULD WANT.
We bring a cinematic lens to itinerary design, crafting journeys that unfold like a story, open doors to hidden worlds, and introduce guests to people, places, and ideas they couldn’t find on their own.
Wander colonial villages like Barichara, where stone paths link past and present. Explore Bogotá’s creativity and Medellín’s reinvention. Retreat to rainforest lodges on the Pacific coast, where Afro-Colombian and Indigenous leaders guide you through their living ecosystems. Sip coffee from our own coffee farm. Share meals with chefs rewriting Colombian cuisine.
Founded by People Who Call Colombia Home
Our local team lives and breathes Colombia.
WhereNext Travel is led by co-founders who helped shape the country's modern tourism story through their work with the Colombian government, USAID, and tourism partners across the country.
Gregg Bleakney arrived by bicycle after riding 18,000 miles across the Americas. Angelika Köhler came with a salsa playlist and never left, building a career, raising a family, and learning to dance like a local.
We design the kind of travel we would want, full of laughter, quiet in wild places, and human-to-human experiences.
Your Team in Colombia
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Angelika Köhler
COUNTRY MANAGER | CO-FOUNDER
Driven by a passion for cultural connection and community-first travel, Angelika Köhler has spent over 15 years exploring Latin America and building a trusted network across Colombia.
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Leidy Lozano
SENIOR SALES MANAGER
An advocate for meaningful travel, Leidy Lozano brings her deep love for Colombia, global perspective, and infectious energy to every journey she helps create.
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Jhowan Quiroga
PRODUCT & OPERATIONS ANALYST
Fueled by curiosity and a deep love for Colombia, Jhowan brings youthful energy, multilingual fluency, and a hands-on approach to crafting travel experiences that uplift local communities.
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Stefania Burbano Mazabuel
OPERATIONS COORDINATOR
Raised in the mountains of Cauca and proud of her rural and Indigenous roots, Stefania has spent 15 years exploring Colombia and working alongside local communities.
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Diana Barbosa
COLOMBIA ADMINISTRATOR
With more than a decade of experience in DMC operations and administration, Diana Barbosa is a deeply trusted figure in Colombia’s travel landscape and an essential part of the WhereNext team.
Trusted By Tourism Leaders, Media & Global Brands
USAID • CBS 60 Minutes • Netflix • REI • LATAM Airlines • ProColombia • Bicycling Magazine • Patagonia
These organizations have trusted our team for destination expertise, production logistics, local access, storytelling, and complex on-the-ground execution in Colombia.
Seeing Colombia Differently
A Perspective Shaped by 15 Years of Telling Colombia’s Story
Fifteen years ago, our creative agency was invited to help Colombia tell a new story. The country was at a turning point. After decades of conflict, intrepid explorers were beginning to rediscover a place that had long been absent from the global travel map. Tourism was growing, but old perceptions had not yet caught up with modern reality.
Around the same time, Narcos became one of Netflix's most-watched series. We believed Colombia's history could not, and should not, be ignored. Our challenge was to broaden the conversation beyond that single story and help both international travelers and Colombians see the country differently.
Colombia is like your multi-talented friend who can fix a car, bake a cake, run a marathon, solve a mathematical proof, and still be the most interesting person at dinner. It does not have a single bucket list icon that defines it. There is no Machu Picchu, no Eiffel Tower, no mountain gorilla encounter, and no Great Pyramid. That makes the country harder to promote, but far more rewarding to explore.
To broaden perceptions, we first had to answer a simple question: Which story could we start with that was uniquely Colombian?
Finding a Story Only Colombia Could Tell
One of the clearest ways we found to broaden Colombia's story was through birds.
Colombia is home to more bird species than any other country on Earth, but the significance of that fact goes far beyond birdwatching. The sheer quantity of birds reflects the country's extraordinary biodiversity, from Caribbean coastlines and Andean cloud forests to tropical grasslands, Pacific rainforests, the Amazon jungle, the páramo, and dry forests.
That diversity extends far beyond nature tourism. It is found in Colombia's cultures, music, cuisine, landscapes, climates, histories, and ways of life. The country changes remarkably quickly. A short flight, a bump in altitude up or down the Andes, or a few hours on the road can place you in an entirely different world.
Designing Human Journeys
But Colombia is different for another reason. International travelers are not the only ones discovering the country for the first time. For decades, conflict prevented many Colombians from exploring large parts of their own homeland.
Today, foreign visitors often find themselves traveling alongside Colombians who are also seeing these places with fresh eyes.
That shared sense of discovery is one of the things that makes Colombia so special.
It is not only the landscapes, the birds, or the extraordinary biodiversity. It is the people you discover the country with.
That human element is what shapes how we design journeys today.
Our challenge in marketing Colombia has always been one of perception.
Every journey we design begins with the same question we asked fifteen years ago: How can we help people see the country differently?
The answer has never been a single attraction.
It has always been introducing guests to the remarkable diversity of people, landscapes, and natural history that make Colombia unlike anywhere else.
Our Latest Field Notes from Colombia
DO | Signature Experiences
Experiences that unfold like a story, open doors to hidden worlds, and introduce guests to people, places, and ideas in Colombia they wouldn’t find on their own.
STAY | Curated Properties
WhereNext Travel's curated collection of luxury hotels, boutique properties, villas, lodges, and extraordinary places to stay across Colombia
ORIGIN | Our Community. Their Stories
A portrait series highlighting the guides, conservationists, chefs, artists, and local communities shaping premium, community-based travel experiences across Colombia.
BACK OF HOUSE | Operational Intelligence
Explore the decisions, challenges, and operational realities behind building Colombia's most trusted modern luxury Destination Management Company.
A Place of Our Own
Finca Gualiva is more than a property we recommend. It is WhereNext Travel’s privately owned rainforest sanctuary and a reflection of how we believe travel should feel.
Just two hours from Bogotá, this 18-acre retreat within rewilded mid-altitude forest was restored as a place to slow down, gather around the table, explore nature, and enjoy the kind of unhurried time together that stays with guests long after the journey ends.
A DMC Network
WhereNext Colombia is seamlessly integrated into a growing DMC network that includes Peru.
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