Meet the local experts: Yobani P.

Yobani Peraza from Xukpi Tours Copan is a travel industry veteran with more than 25 years of hands-on experience as a specialty tour guide and tour conductor. Yobani is based in Copan Ruinas but runs trip itineraries nationally; and even multi-country trips combining Honduras with Guatemala or El Salvador. When he is not traveling with guests, he provides consulting advice and training to other tourism industry entrepreneurs.  His areas of expertise include destination planning, product development, heritage interpretation, and training.  Yobani has been a key stakeholder in making tour guiding in Honduras a profession. As a matter of fact, in the last 15 years Yobani has trained local tour guides in many places across Honduras including: Lake Yojoa, La Esperanza, Gracias, La Moskitia, Siguatepeque, Choluteca, Comayagua, Roatan, and Atlantida.

the Honduras stand in BirdFair '17

Accredited by the Honduras Institute of Tourism as a national tour guide, his specialties are birding and Mayan culture. He also holds a Bachelor in Tourism from the Universidad Tecnologica de Honduras, and is a founding member of the Copan Tour Guide Association.

He recently participated in BirdFair 2017 in the United Kingdom promoting Honduras as a birding destination. Honduras is working hard to position itself as a birding destination, and has gathered together different stakeholders to develop a strategy to pursue that segment.

The diversity of ecosystems is of the advantages that Honduras offers this specialty travel segment. Approximately 770 different species of birds have been identified in Honduras, including resident and migratory species.  Due to its location in the southernmost fringe of the migratory route for North American species, this is a birder's paradise!

Choose Honduras is very excited to be working with Yobani and the Xukpi Tours Copan team as their main tour guide service provider in the Copan Valley, and transportation supplier nationwide.

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