Colombia MICE is a specialized destination management company (DMC) for meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions in Colombia. We’re a division of Pelecanus SAS, the Bogotá-based tour operator founded by Swiss entrepreneur Frank Spitzer in 2017. Where Pelecanus handles luxury leisure travel and golf tourism, Colombia MICE focuses exclusively on the corporate side — the events, the incentive trips, the conferences, the trade shows.
What we do
We design and operate corporate events across Colombia for international companies, associations, and incentive program managers. The full MICE spectrum:
- Meetings — executive board meetings, leadership offsites, sales conferences, training programs, partner summits
- Incentives — reward trips for sales teams, channel partners, and employees. From single-foursome golf incentives to 200-person multi-day programs
- Conferences — industry conferences, association annual meetings, regional gatherings with multi-day programs
- Exhibitions — trade show participation, hosted-buyer programs, and B2B event coordination
Each engagement is end-to-end: venue sourcing, contract negotiation, AV and production, ground transport, hotel block management, F&B, off-site activities, on-site coordination, and post-event reporting. We work with companies booking direct and with international agencies who need a local operating partner.
Why Colombia for corporate events
Colombia has quietly become one of Latin America’s strongest MICE destinations. Three reasons drive it:
- Geographic access — Bogotá sits 3-6 hours from every major US city and within 2 hours of every major South American capital. Convention centers in Bogotá, Medellín, Cartagena, and Cali handle 200–5,000+ delegates.
- Year-round climate — no high/low season for indoor events. Caribbean coast for sun-priority programs; Bogotá for cooler weather; coffee region for nature-paired incentives.
- Differentiated experiences — coffee farm visits, Cartagena walled-city receptions, Amazon expeditions, golf in three different climate zones. The off-site programming has range competitive Caribbean destinations don’t match.
For deeper background on the destination case, see Why Colombia and Why Colombia is a MICE destination. For the case for incentive travel as a corporate tool, see 9 advantages of incentive travel.
About Frank Spitzer, founder
Frank Spitzer founded Pelecanus in 2017 after twenty years in international finance and a relocation from Switzerland to Colombia. He holds an MBA from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá and served as a first lieutenant in the Swiss Army. The Swiss operational discipline shapes how Colombia MICE runs — every event runs on detailed timelines, contingency plans, and post-event accountability.
Pelecanus and Colombia MICE are members of IAGTO (International Association of Golf Tour Operators) and registered with Colombia’s Registro Nacional de Turismo under RNT 51402. The company is also a member of the Cámara de Comercio Colombo-Suiza (Colombian-Swiss Chamber of Commerce).
Where we operate
Bogotá is our base; we run events nationwide. Our most-requested destinations:
- Bogotá — the convention capital, financial center, headquarters of most Colombian operations
- Cartagena — the UNESCO walled-city venue for high-impact incentive and conference programs
- Medellín — the Plaza Mayor convention center hub, innovation-economy positioning
- Cali — salsa capital, sports-event capable, growing tech sector
- Pereira — coffee region gateway for nature-paired incentives
How we work
Most engagements follow a similar arc: discovery call to understand the event objective, audience, and constraints; site inspection or virtual tour of shortlisted venues; detailed proposal with line-item costing; contracting; pre-event logistics planning; on-site delivery; post-event debrief and reporting.
Lead times vary: a 30-person executive offsite typically needs 8–12 weeks of planning; a 200-person incentive trip needs 4–6 months; a major conference or trade-show participation needs 6–12 months to do well.
Talk to us
The fastest way to scope an event is to share the basics — date window, group size, destination preferences, primary objective. We respond within one business day with a structured first reply.
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