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2024-03-06T05:36:32.155Z

Highlights: Nicolas Duperche is a guardian angel for travelers who change their minds as well as their shirts. The CEO of Voyageurs du monde, Jean-François Rial, travels the planet, improvising. “We accompany travelers on a day-to-day basis, but without seeing them. It is very rare to meet them. We are not guides. Everything happens via WhatsApp,” he says. This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 89% left to discover.


INVESTIGATION - Between voluntary disorganization and the injunction to reserve, the new globetrotters claim the right to improvisation.


Nicolas Duperche is a guardian angel for travelers who change their minds as well as their shirts, plan not to plan anything, and make improvisation the Ariadne's thread of their journey in Latin America.

“ 

Guardian angel?

“That’s the nickname that a customer gave me one day

,” smiles, on the line, in Montevideo, Uruguay where he is based, this

“destination concierge”,

the real name of his profession.

“ 

I chose this profession when it was created at Voyageurs du monde, ten years ago.

I had already been working in tourism for twenty years, for their local partner in Uruguay and Argentina.

And I discovered a profession very different from that of a hotel concierge.

Because we accompany travelers on a day-to-day basis, but without seeing them.

It is very rare to meet them.

We are not guides.

Everything happens via WhatsApp

 .”

The CEO of Voyageurs du monde (VDM), Jean-François Rial, travels the planet, improvising.

Why not the customers?

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