I was seven when my parents left Zürich for Sosúa, on the Dominican Republic's North Coast, after falling in love with the island on vacation. I grew up here — not as a tourist, but as a local. My mother homeschooled me for years, and by the time I finished an international school in English and Spanish, I held both an American and a Dominican diploma. Through it all, my mother made sure I never lost my Swiss mother tongue. Three languages, three worlds — all fully mine.

For my studies, I returned to Zürich, earning degrees in Restaurant & Hotel Management (Zürcher Hotelfachschule) and Hospitality & Events Management (Kalaidos Fachhochschule). I also worked there as a multilingual city tour guide — leading me to realize this was exactly the work I wanted to do: creating moments, reading a room, making a stranger feel instantly welcome.
But I always knew I'd return home to the Dominican Republic.

I came back to Sosúa with five years of Swiss hospitality training and a clear vision. I'd seen how the Dominican Republic was usually marketed abroad — mostly as an all-inclusive backdrop, with little of the real country showing through. I knew a different Dominican Republic: hidden waterfalls, wild parrots, fishermen who become friends, sunsets that stop you mid-sentence. That country deserved better representation. So I founded Courage Travels.

If you take "Courage" as a noun and "Travels" as a verb, then courage travels. From person to person. When one person is courageous enough to take a leap, it gives others permission to do the same. I want every client who travels with us to take that leap, into a destination they don't fully know yet, into experiences that surprise them, into moments that remind them what it feels like to be fully present.

Courage Travels is a boutique destination management company based in Sosúa, on the North Coast. We design and operate curated multi-day programs, incentive travel and exclusive retreats, working directly with boutique travel agencies in Switzerland, Germany and the USA, alongside a select number of independent travelers seeking a genuinely personalized experience.
Every program is planned personally by me, backed by a trusted network of local guides, hotel owners, transfer providers and specialist partners built over more than twenty years on this island. From first inquiry to final transfer, you have one point of contact, me. I speak German, English and Spanish fluently. I understand Swiss and German expectations of quality and precision. And I know this country the way only someone who grew up here can, not from a guidebook, but from the inside.