About South America Rep
South America Rep is a UK representation company working to promote a hand-picked collection of luxury hotels, lodges and boats in Latin America. Our partners are the leaders in high-end experiential travel.
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Gabriel
Owner and founder of South America Rep, Gabriel spent the best part of a decade living and travelling in South America (her two sons were born in Santiago de Chile).
Her meticulous standards and strong contacts come from a background in journalism: she worked for ABC News, Bloomberg and BBC World News, and has a portfolio of travel articles published in high-end media, including Conde Nast Traveller, Tatler, CNN and the Financial Times: www.gabrielororke.com.
As well as visiting the finest luxury properties across Latin America as a travel writer, Gabriel worked for Awasi in their Santiago office, gaining first-hand experience of how hotels operate before launching South America Rep.
Gabriel is on the Board of Directors for the Sol y Luna Foundation, Peru.
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Tom
Tom formally joined the South America Rep team in early 2019 after working for 12 years in finance in both London, UK, and Santiago, Chile. As a boy he lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and reignited his love for Latin America travelling overland from Costa Rica to Mexico as a student.
He has travelled widely across Southern and Central America, accompanying Gabriel on trips as well as whilst working as a luxury travel writer for a selection of British-based newspapers and magazines. He lived with Gabriel and their two boys in Santiago, Chile, for 5 years where he built up an extensive, first-hand knowledge of the travel sector in the region. Both Gabriel and Tom are fluent Spanish speakers.
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Saskia
Saskia joined the team in April 2019, having taken a couple of years away from the travel world to have her second child. Her love of Latin America began when she first set foot on the continent at the age of 18, and she has spent the ensuing years travelling extensively throughout Mexico, Central and South America.
Prior to starting a family, Saskia managed the Latin America team at Original Travel, a luxury tour operator based in South West London where she spent 9 happy years.
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Isobel
Following a year teaching in a small town in Chile at the age of 18, Isobel found herself pulled back to Latin America after graduating with a masters in Journalism from City University, London.
After a stint falling off horses in the Argentine Pampas, she moved to Buenos Aires where she worked as a fixer and journalist for two years, and made frequent trips across Latin America, exploring, collecting recipes and following her interest in folk religions.
Isobel is a former chef, and this drives her travels: Argentina should be experienced by eating lamb slow roasted over an open fire for 12-hours, Chile with ceviche on a desert beach by the Atlantic Ocean, and Colombia by sitting under a tin roof having a whole fried chicken doused in hot sauce.
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Hayley
Hayley has been involved in the design and website development of South America Rep from the very beginning. As well as patiently adding endless content updates on the website, she also takes charge of designing invitations and reports for FAM trips and events.
She has only visited South America once, on a snowboarding trip to Chile in 2008, but would love to go back someday. Her love of snowboarding led to 5 years living in Chamonix, France, where she continued her design business while enjoying the alpine mountains and the activities they offer. Now settled back in Scotland she works from a countryside office and spends most of her free time entertaining an over active Border Collie.
