TEAM & NETWORK

 
Teamwork is one of our top priorities.

Our modern consulting is future-oriented with targeted services focused on market development, competitive advantages and the needs of your customers.

This requires skilled and innovative people who think globally while acting locally, are stress-resistant and don’t equate quality with boredom.

Due to our varying interests and experiences, we perfectly complement each other as a team while still applying our individual strengths.

Mutual support comes naturally to us, letting our clients profit from the cumulative knowledge of our entire team. This allows us to reliably and competently handle projects at all times.

All of our network partners have many years of experience to draw from.
 

Reto D. Rüfenacht I Managing Director

Reto D. Rüfenacht
Reto D. Rüfenacht began his professional career in tourism during his academic studies as a tour guide for various national and international tourism companies. Following his degree, Rüfenacht spent a year in Mexico to study the country’s language and hotel business. Until 2007, he was the owner of LATINO TRAVEL, a renowned Swiss special tour operator for Latin America. For a long time, LATINO TRAVEL was considered a pioneer of individual touring in these countries. >> more
 

Tanael Michel I Product Manager

Tanael Michel
Since January 2010, Tanael Michel is LAT’s Product Manager. After five years in the head office of Kuoni and simultaneous training as a tourism manager (professional college) as well as three years with the Central America specialist LATINO TRAVEL, he has extensive knowledge of destinations. During a personal 12-month long dream journey, Michel traveled from Mexico City to Patagonia and back, spending several weeks in almost every Latin American country.
 

Wolfgang Rassmann I Product Manager

Wolfgang Rassmann
Wolfgang Rassmann has been with LAT since December 2010. He spent six years establishing the Caribbean division of the German Latin America specialist Miller Reisen. He received his professional training at the long-distance travel specialist Meier’s Weltreisen. Rassmann spent some time abroad in the Dominican Republic and Mexico before taking a position as a yield- and product-manager for the German tour operator FTI.
 

Max Born | Manager eCommerce

Max Born
Max Born began working for LAT in 2011 as a project manager for eCommerce & web. His passion for Cuba, the Caribbean and Central America developed during an internship with an incoming agency in Havana. For a specialized tour operator, he worked as a webmaster and was responsible for the sale of individual tours to Cuba, the product management of active tours and online marketing.
 

Yolanda Weber I Travel Consultant

Yolanda Weber
Yolanda Weber has worked for diverse companies of Reto D. Rüfenacht since 1996. Since February 2008, she is also a part-time travel consultant for LAT. She has expanded her knowledge of destinations through stays abroad and various assignments for diverse companies on location.
 

Martina Fosco I Marketing Assistant

Martina Fosco
Before Martina Fosco began her work as a part-time marketing assistant for LAT in February 2010, she spent seven years heading the marketing division of the travel specialist LATINO TRAVEL. She enjoys discovering the remote rural regions of Central America and Cuba on bike as well as kite surfing on white and windy beaches.
 
 
 
 
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