WHO ARE WE?

Guillermo Valencia Velásquez e Inés Elvira Mariño Ramírez
are a couple of hotel consultants with vast experience.

Guillermo Valencia Velásquez

Guillermo graduated in 1976 from the Hotel School of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) and after working in different hotels on said island, he made his first experiences in London and later returned to Colombia where he began his career in 1980 with InterContinental Hotels at the Tequendama Hotel in Bogotá.

After being Rooms Division Manager, Sales Director and General Manager in several countries and after 18 transfers, he ended up 41 years later at the iconic President InterContinental Mexico City. He is passionate about service, sales and marketing, as well as human resource management and development.

Inés Elvira Mariño Ramírez

Inés graduated from the School of Hotel Management at the Externado de Colombia University in 1982. She specialized in the gastronomic area, working in events for important banks and insurance companies in Bogota.

Her passion has been gastronomy, and she has acquired over the years, through the different countries where she has lived, extensive knowledge of Spanish, Mexican, Peruvian, Indian and Colombian cuisines, among others.

ACHIEVEMENTS

- Guillermo Valencia

  • “General Manager of the year” among 65 hotels of the IHG chain in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2005.

  • In 2017 it was recognized by InterContinental Hotels as the “Best of the Best” General Manager of the year in the Americas.

  • Hotel Executive of the Year given by the Mexican Association of the Tourism Industry in 2019 and presented by the Secretary of Tourism of Mexico, Miguel Torruco.

  • Total REMODELING of 6 hotels.

  • EXCELLENCE IN WORK ENVIRONMENT and high satisfaction rates.

  • OUTSTANDING financial results.

  • Guest SATISFACTION and quality evaluation.

    - Ines Elvira

  • Gastronomic events for companies of the Santodomingo Group, Bogotá.

  • Cooking Club, Mexico City.

  • Advisor to the Food & Beverage Committee of the Malanquín Golf Club, San Miguel de Allende.

HOBBIES

  • They both love GOLF, traveling to play it as a couple or with their friends.

  • Inés loves cooking and learning new recipes.

  • Guillermo likes to do yoga to calm his body and mind.