President
Tatiana@tditourism.com
Founder of TDI, Tatiana Ramos has worked for 17 years managing tourism projects in the public and private sectors. During the last six years Tatiana has managed more than 30 projects around the world. Her tourism technical experience includes pro-poor tourism approaches, product and market development, investment promotion, and strategic planning. Her core area of expertise is product and market development and pro-poor tourism approaches. Currently Tatiana is taking a one-year sabbatical to start-up the regional initiative STEP (Sustainable Tourism to Eliminate Poverty) in Central America for the UN World Tourism Organization, and is based in the Nicaragua.
Previous to TDI Ms. Ramos was head of the Tourism Office at the Embassy of Mexico in Washington, D.C. for three years and two years in the Mexican Tourism Office in New York City as Marketing and Investment Promotion Representative. She initiated and supervised a tourism investment operating system that would allow the Ministry of Tourism to match tourism projects with foreign institutional and private investors. Part of this effort included the creation and coordination of a Tourism Investment Technical Committee where Wall Street investors were invited as members to advise the Mexican government on the strategies, mechanisms and policies to improve barriers to tourism investment in the country.
Ms. Ramos also worked for several years at the Mexican Ministry of Tourism in Mexico City, coordinating the marketing plans for advertising and public relations in the U.S., Spain, Germany and Japan. She worked extensively in destination promotion and product development training travel agents in the US, negotiating and developing alliances with wholesalers and airlines; and coordinating familiarization trips to Mexico for travel agents and specialized media from abroad. Key aspects of the role of Ms. Ramos included building “market intelligence” on the travel patterns, trends, preferences and profiles of strategic markets and for Mexico.
Tatiana Ramos is a frequent guest speaker at the George Washington and New York University’s Masters in Tourism and Hospitality Programs. She holds a BA in International Affairs from the George Washington University and is candidate for the Masters in Tourism Administration from the same university; she also holds two certificates on Pro-Poor Tourism from the International Center for Responsible Tourism at Leeds University.
