Cristina Sánchez, Chilean with studies in tourism enterprises at the University of Valdivia, Chile. She began her professional practice in the Planning Department of SERNATUR (the Chilean National Tourism Service). After a year traveling through Europe, she went to work in Santiago for "Turismo Cocha", one Chile's most important travel agencies. During her seven years there, she worked first in the National Department developing programs for the Chilean market. A few years later she took over the American Express operations, with responsibility for attending American clients visiting Chile. Finally, in the Incoming Department, she led different groups -mainly from Europe and United States- in "fam trips" (familiarization trips) organized for wholesalers interested in promoting Chile, which gave her a deep knowledge of the country. Then, for the next four years, she moved to "Andina del Sud", another important wholesaler specialized in Latin American markets. Her job with this company was to investigate new products and create new concepts for offering Chile, with a focus on "soft" adventure trips. She also dedicated a great deal of energy to the international marketing of this company, permitting it to participate in international fairs like the Travel Mart Latin American, Fitur, and ITB, among the most important. With these 11 years of experience behind her, in 1994 she decided to look for a small company, more specialized in outdoors trips. Altue was the company, and with Francisco -an old friend- they found a new way to combine their capacities and professional experiences.
Alejandra Fontecilla, native chilean. She has 4years of studies in tourism in DUOC-UC. She began her practice in Altue operation department and sales. After that we requiered her to come to work in our operator department. She is responsible of reservations and trafic department.