Hospitality
While Karvansarai is primarily focused on designing trips with a conservation ethos, Alon and Alessandra come from a hospitality background and continue to do hotel consulting, short stints as relief managers and specialised guiding. This allows them to create trips for Karvansarai travellers that meet their high service and environmental standards.
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Brand Ambassador
Having worked in the travel and hospitality industry for over 15 years and attended trade shows such as Pure Life Experiences, We Are Africa, Emotions Travel Community, World Travel Market, and LE Miami both as an exhibitor for clients such as SUJAN Luxury Hotels and a buyer for Karvansarai, Alessandra’s knowledge of the industry and friendships built over the years are a valuable asset for any conscious property seeking representation globally. In her words, ‘One thing I know very well about my self is that if I genuinely believe in something it sells itself.’
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Sustainability Consulting
We are hospitality advisors with a passion for tourism for conservation. We devise practical and location specific tools for environmentally conscious properties to further their ecological sustainability, alongside improving their product and bottom line. We provide you with a detailed report from our on site assessment and advise you on how to effectively implement our recommendations. -
Relief Management
Alon and Alessandra’s combined background of hotel management, maintenance and guiding in remote locations together with their commitment to the highest service standards and passion for conservation make them ideal managers for eco lodges and camps in wild places.
Alessandra’s career in hospitality began with the Conrad Bangkok. Subsequently she worked with the opening team of the Aman New Delhi and then held various positions at SUJAN Luxury Hotels, including as Resident Manager of their Relais & Chateaux property, Sher Bagh, in Ranthambhore, India. In this last position of managing a luxury tented camp in a tiger reserve she found a place that had made her dream of meaningful and responsible travel a reality.
After qualifying as a FGASA certified guide, Alon joined Sangha Lodge, in the Central African Republic, as a naturalist guide. He soon became skilled in all aspects of lodge management working in the challenging environment of the Congo Basin rainforest combined with a practical approach to his work. After a stretch as Head Guide with the Congo Conservation Company in Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo Alon returned to Sangha Lodge to assist with a complete renovation of the property. Alon is now expanding on his passion for travel and conservation, sharing his experience from the Congo Basin to lodges and camps around the world.