Through her role as president of ProColombia, Flavia Santoro Trujillo is committed to promoting tourism in the country. As the Latin American destination seeks to remerge from the coronavirus pandemic, she here explains to Breaking Travel News editor, Chris O’Toole, what measures are being put in place to keep visitors safe

ProColombia, the government agency charged with the promotion of trade, investment and tourism to Colombia, has announced capital city Bogota has been selected as host city for the One Young World Summit in 2017. One Young World was founded in 2009 and is a UK-based not-for-profit organisation that gathers together the brightest young people from around the world, empowering them to make lasting connections to create positive change.

ProColombia has seen UK visitor numbers to Colombia increase by a massive 24 per cent in January-May this year. There were a total of 15,187 UK tourist arrivals compared with 12,258 in the same period in 2014. The huge increase follows an annual increase of 28.5 per cent year on year when comparing total UK visitor numbers for 2014 against 2013.

Having recently been appointed to the role of executive director with ProColombia in the United Kingdom, Felipe Angel here sits down with Breaking Travel News editor Chris O’Toole to discuss the future of tourism in the country. On the agenda is the expected dividend of on-going peace negotiations with FARC rebels, the growth of MICE tourism in capital Bogotá and the developing airlift into this emerging South American destination.