Pablo Haas, CEO & Founder, Paralelo 54
What do you need to be an entrepreneur?
Courage, Good ideas, Confidence and planning vision.
What did inspire you to start your business?
Passion for tourism.
How did you finance it?
Personal savings.
Being Hispanic… Does it have any influence on your business?
Sure, we focus our business in a latin vision of our country.
In the face of adversity, how do you decide to keep going?
As long as we have good ideas and they are viable, we will keep betting on it.
What is the biggest challenge your business has faced?
2008 Global Crisis, Airline strikes, H1N1 “paranoia”.
If you could change one thing about your business, what would it be?
I would bet all of it into the Web.
What was your childhood ambition?
So many I couldn’t peak just one. Classic: Astronaut, firemen.
Tell us about three entrepreneurs that you admire?
My best friend and my brother, with their project www.implicate.org
For business meetings: breakfast, lunch, or dinner?
Dinner.
What sacrifices on your personal life did you have to make in order to become a business success?
If I can consider the actual situation as a success, I can say maybe the biggest sacrifice was letting go a good career at the travel agency I worked before.
What is your favorite quote?
“In a World of universal deceit… telling the truth is revolutionary”.
Is it difficult to be unconventional?
Not our case… we found our target thinking different.
Biggest mistake made?
In the business aspect: Bet on Spain on 2008.
Do you consider yourself an innovator? Why?
Yes in a lot of aspects. Because we focus on bringing new experiences to our passengers. We try to change the classic tour into a personal experience.
About the Company
Paralelo 54 was born out of the experience and union of ideas of three young entrepreneurs with a common goal: to personalize luxurious trips and show traditional destinations from inside and in new forms.
Weighing our experience and knowing every corner and secret of the country, we decided to be unique and idealistic. To share our landscapes and traditions is to share our passion and admiration for a country that has it all. Possessing all the climates and environments in one territory permits us to offer perfect tours for any traveller, especially the most demanding.
Our primary aim is to ensure a rich and profound experience of life for every visitor and to elaborate our proposals accordingly.
For that, we have established high standards of services based on the premise of genuine attention to all passengers.
We believe that, to offer first-class tailor-made trips as an intermediary, we need to have an intimate, personalized and reliable relationship with each of our fellow travelers.
Based on these ideals, we have fixed the following objectives:
- to create a cordial, polite, speedy and above all enthusiastic working atmosphere;
- to be attentive at all times and accept new ideas and ways to be unique;
- to search for constant change and excellence to meet the highest level of demands and new services, and to share them;
- to grow together with our distributors as promoters of an ecological and sustainable tourism.
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