Meet our team

After a six-month stay in Arequipa, Laura flew to Burma where she worked in tourism for an international Travel agency. A year and a half later and a Trilingual Masters of Intercultural Management in hand, she decides to come back to Arequipa, settle down and then joins the Paprika Tours team for a new challenge.

Sarah was born in north of France, studied law and arrived in Arequipa in 2015 for holidays. She fell in love with the city and with a peruvian man, so she settled in Arequipa. After many trips across Peru, she wanted to make tourism her profession and joined Paprika Tours’ team.

Nicolas, from Toulouse, traveled to Latin America several times and fell in love with Peru and Arequipa in 2013. He then decided to settle here permanently. His various experiences in tourism led him straight to our team and made him an invaluable addition.

Born in La Paz, Andrea has an interesting combination of the European and Bolivian cultures due to the long stays lived in Europe and in Latin America. Graduated in Tourism and with good knowledge in foreign languages, her experience in two big tour operators’ specialists in incoming services in Bolivia is a main advantage to put in practice her career within Paprika Tours.

Cusco-born and bred, Ruth holds a diploma in Tourism Administration from the national University of San Antonio Abad in Cusco. Her passion for the Andean culture lead to qualify as an official French and English-speaking tour guide, around Cusco and Peru as a whole. She joined our team in 2010, and works exclusively for Paprika Tours.

Silvero is Peruvian and originally from Amantani Island, on Lake Titicaca. He has been an official tour guide in the Puno region since 2002 (both in English and in French). He has been working exclusively for Paprika Tours since 2010, as the operations coordinator and guide in Puno.

After training as an executive secretary, Yesenia became a part of the operations department at Paprika Tours in 2011. Before this she had worked in a currency exchange agency in Arequipa, which she managed for several years.

Born in Arequipa, Marisabel studied Tourism and Hotel Management at San Agustín National University. She then worked in a travel agency in Arequipa for 3 years before joining the operations department at Paprika Tours.

Karina studied Tourism and Hotel Management in Arequipa before working on one of the Carnival cruise ships for a year. She then acquired experience in incoming tourism in several Peruvian agencies before joining Paprika Tours a few years ago.

After a 25-year career in human resources back in Belgium, Gabriel decided to settle permanently in Arequipa in 2003, and started a family with his Peruvian wife. His dynamic nature and his experience in team management bring the necessary momentum to the agency’s development and growth.

Originally from the region of Brittany, Tiphaine discovered Arequipa in 1998 when she traveled to Peru for the first time. After a number of trips back and forth, she married a Peruvian man in 2005 and settled in Arequipa 4 years later. She holds a diploma in Languages and Business, and 5 years of work experience in Brittany. She was therefore the ideal person to run the Paprika Tours team in Arequipa since 2010.

Luis is originally from Juliaca, near Puno, but studied accountancy in Arequipa, where he worked for a few years before joining Paprika Tours in 2013.

Born in Arequipa, Edward studied accountancy at Alas Peruanas University, and has worked in different companies in the city before joining Paprika Tours as an accounting assistant.