About Tina Expeditions
Empowering Women, Discovering the Heart of the Andes
Meet Tina
A Native Quechua Guide with a Mission
My name is Ernestina Valeriano (TINA) and I’m a professional tour guide. I’m originally from Cusco and I’m a native Quechua. I’ve been working for about 13 years as a local guide in my city, as a mountain guide and as a tour leader, taking groups around my country and, occasionally, to other cities in South America.
At the beginning of my career, it was a challenge for me as a woman, because the work of guiding mainly was for men in my city. Travel agencies have always preferred to work with men, trying to minimize the work of us as women, making excuses such as women are not prepared to take on these challenges.
Our Mission
Empowering Women in Tourism
TRAVELING WITH TINA is to generate a positive change in travel such as creating jobs for more women and benefiting local communities, going beyond the traditional tourist perspective, involving more local people and remote communities that really need support.
Our Vission
Leadership in group tourism
Become the number one benchmark in Peru and South America for large group travel, creating unforgettable experiences with premium standards, human warmth, and perfect logistics.
The True Heart of Peru
Travelling to Peru is not only visiting Machu Picchu, it is discovering the history of living and feeling touching our culture, visiting local communities and seeing there are still women who are dedicated not just to taking care or looking after the children, but also to making art with beautiful colourful hand-woven fabrics, embroidery, pottery and so on.
Coming to eat the food made by indigenous hands, you will meet inspiring women like me, like you, on each trip. It will be a very different experience from other conventional travel agencies. Why not stay in a family home, or rest in wonderful colonial houses that still smell like history? That is the true heart of Peru.