The Luxury Latin America DMC
WhereNext DMC is a Luxury Latin America Destination Management Company operating through a growing network of locally led businesses across Latin America, with established companies in Colombia and Peru.
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After leaving behind his old life and moving to Latin America nearly 20 years ago, WhereNext founder and CEO Gregg Bleakney spent more than 15 years building a travel marketing company across the region before losing almost everything and deciding to start over.
What followed challenged not only how he thought about business and risk, but also the kind of life and business he ultimately wanted to build.
MEET GREGGWhat if we didn’t just market travel, what if we created it?
Multiple countries, one working standard
Our growing Latin America DMC network is locally led, but every country runs on the same service standards, proposal process, and communication model. The destination expertise changes. The way we work together does not.
Led by Angelika Köhler
Colombia DMC
Primary base in Bogotá. Medellín, Cartagena, Santa Marta, the Coffee Region, the Andes and the Amazon.Visit Colombia DMCLed by Fiorella Freyre
Peru DMC
Lima, Cusco, the Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca and the Peruvian Amazon.Visit Peru DMC
How we work
- You
Share your guest brief
Send your guest’s travel goals, dates, budget, interests and special requirements.
- Our team
We design the journey
Trip Designers build itineraries from vetted hotels, guides, transport and local experiences.
- Together
Review & refine
Most proposals go through several rounds of refinement.
- Our team
Travel with confidence
Our operations team manages suppliers, reservations, logistics, guest communications and on-the-ground support.
- 24 hrs
- Business hours to an initial inquiry response
- 24 hrs
- Business hours for a simple FIT proposal (2 business days for complex)
- 24/7
- Support for active travelers
Meet the partners
Gregg Bleakney
Founder and CEO
Angelika Köhler
Country Manager | Co-founder, Colombia
Fiorella Freyre
Country Manager | Co-founder, Peru
Stephan Schier
Operations Director | WhereNext Group
Selected work
Press and RecognitionThese projects helped build the local relationships, field experience, and judgment behind the journeys we run today.
CBS 60 Minutes
Aired May 3 and August 2, 2026
The producers of 60 Minutes needed guides and suppliers willing to share their stories, and a team that could operate in remote, complex places with high-profile guests. They asked us for help, and we worked with the production before filming and on the ground. For your guests: that is the access and ground team behind every trip we design.
Read how our DMC supported 60 MinutesNetflix One Hundred Years of Solitude
December 9, 2024
Our in-house creative team worked in the field in Colombia to record and catalog the natural history soundscape for Netflix’s adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Part 1 reached 31.1 million viewing hours in its first week. For your guests: that fieldwork shapes how we design journeys that make people #FeelSomething, with the soundscape as part of the itinerary.
Read about the Netflix soundscapeUSAID Destination Nature
Prime contract awarded November 2022
We were the local implementing subcontractor for USAID Colombia’s Destination Nature, a program of nearly $40 million for biodiversity conservation, rural livelihoods, and nature-based economic development. For your guests: that is the depth of local relationships behind our nature and community experiences.
Read about Destination Nature
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We believe travel should make people#FeelSomething.
We design travel that we would want: journeys that make us laugh until our stomachs ache, invite growth through challenge, bring quiet in wild landscapes, and introduce guests to people, places, and ideas they would be unlikely to find on their own.
We serve luxury travel advisors, boutique travel agencies, tour operators, hospitality brands, incentive travel planners, and curated group travel companies
Doors your guests would not find alone
Our locally operated and locally registered DMCs are based in Latin America, with decades of relationships built across the region.
WhereNext Original ExperiencesCrafted to Unfold Like a Story
We bring a cinematic lens to itinerary design, shaped by our history in storytelling and media production.
Our Company HistoryIn-House Creative Agency
Our award-winning in-house creative agency produces an original travel content library that helps our partners capture attention and grow sales.
Marketing Support
Design. Quote. Book. Fast.
Tailor-made travel in Latin America runs on manual work. Our team and systems are built to take it on, from the first idea to the day your guests land.
Lookbook
Your guests can visualize the trip before it exists.
Quote
Transparent pricing. Start at any moment, and get it back faster.
Trip Guide
A guide made for one itinerary. Theirs.
Web app
Everything your guests need, in their pocket.
Frequent Partner Questions
What is WhereNext DMC?
WhereNext DMC is a luxury Latin America Destination Management Company (DMC) specializing in custom journeys throughout Colombia, Peru and the broader region, operating through locally registered companies.
Read about WhereNext DMCWhy partner with WhereNext DMC?
Luxury travel advisors, experience-led travel companies, and tour operators partner with WhereNext DMC for locally operated DMC teams, fast itinerary turnaround, transparent quoting, concierge-level support, tailor-made multi-country journeys and local destination expertise.
See how we work with advisorsWho do WhereNext DMC's local teams work with?
Our local teams work with the hotels, guides, hosts and local experts who introduce guests to people, places and ideas they would be unlikely to find on their own. We choose each one by visiting, testing and spending time with them.
How we choose our suppliersWhat destinations does WhereNext DMC operate in?
Locally registered companies in Colombia, led by Angelika Köhler, and in Peru, led by Fiorella Freyre.
Read the full answerHow quickly can WhereNext DMC provide quotes and itineraries?
We respond to inquiries within 24 business hours. Simple FIT proposals take 24 business hours and complex ones 2 business days.
Read the service standardsDoes WhereNext DMC offer transparent pricing?
Yes. We can provide detailed pricing and service breakdowns.
Read how pricing worksHow does WhereNext DMC ensure reliable service and fast turnaround time?
We use AI, modern operational systems and workflow tools to improve itinerary development, communication speed, operational coordination and partner responsiveness. WhereNext OS is our own AI-first technology system, which produces Lookbooks, Quotes and Trip Guides, and a web app for your guests, with a WhereNext DMC team member always in the loop. That frees our team members, and you, to get to the work that makes a trip exceptional: the guide perfectly matched to your guest, the quiet room at the back of the hotel property, the experience worth building a day around.
Learn More About Our Operating SystemHow do I choose a DMC in Colombia or Peru?
Choose on evidence you can check. Ask every DMC for its legal name and tourism registration in each country, a current certificate of insurance, who answers an emergency, a written quote with each service on its own line, and its published reply times.
Read the full checklistHow do I verify a DMC is licensed and insured?
Our registrations, insurance and terms are public and dated on the Vendor file, with a note on how to check each one in the official registry.
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