About us Incas Path
Incas Path is a truly 100% Peruvian company, which was founded in 2016 and offers hiking tours, bus and train excursions and also experiential tourism excursions.
From the moment you contact us until the moment your excursion ends, we will offer you 24/7 assistance and top quality customer service.
Incas Path is headquartered in the imperial city of Cusco and was created by Erick Churata.
I have worked in the tourism industry since I was 18 years old, I have visited and explored Machu Picchu more than 600 times, I have hiked hundreds of times the more than 20 hiking trails we have in the region and I have also dedicated myself to explore every corner of my beautiful country.
In 2016, after having worked as a tour guide for 10 years, I decided to create Incas Path and gather within my team people with vast experience in the sector, empathy, passion for providing assistance and customer service and at the same time people who share the culture of Incas Path, which is to create a truly friendly business with our planet that needs us so much and we need it too and at the same time give back our success to our community.
Why did l start the company?
In addition to the reason of being economically free,create jobs for my community and being a person who likes to undertake and risk.
Always worked as a tour guide, it is my passion, I was born to provide assistance, high quality service and share my culture and my country with the whole world; I also started Incas Path with the conviction of doing business responsibly, I consider that it is time not just to talk or advertise but rather to do business in a correct and sustainable way with our planet and our community.
Why should I travel with Incas Path?
It is to help the local economy due Incas Path is a truly 100 % peruvian company, with unique itiniraries created with years of experience on the field, the best technical and profesional crew of chefs, porters and tour leaders in addition of a huge commitment to protect the planet and be fair with our team of workers.
OUR TEAM
Our Porters
Our porters are the backbone of our company and on this understanding we care them as best as posible. Due to the good treatment and work equipment we give our porters, they work hard and passionately for our clients, always smiling and attentive to any need you our tourists could have.
Our Guides
Our expert crew of guides are all local to the Cusco area, they speak fluent Spanish and English, and almost all of them also speak Qechua (the native language of Peru).
All our super guides have a university degree in tourism, and a minimum of three years experience under their belt; they are full of energy,fun, care and extremely knowledgeable about the flora, fauna, Incan sites, culture, archaelogy, leyend, andean tales and history and are well trained to act in case emergencies happen.
Our Chefs
The work of our chefs is essential and basic, to achieve the success of our hikes and excursions; under their responsibility, it is not only to keep our tourist and team well hydrated and fed, but also to offer a well prepared and balanced diet, to replenish and maintain energy.
Office Staff
Our office staff are the planners of the whole operation. From the first moment you contact us to the moment you end your journey, We will organise everything down to the finest detail, so that your journey goes off without a hitch and be memorable for you and your loved ones.
Incas Path keep their office team always well relaxed and well motivated to give our tourist their best.
OUR GOALS
- Provide well organized and memorable tours
- Provide top quility customer service and safety journeys
- Share our country by inside with our tourists
- keep a 100 % local porters, chefs and guides
- Protect and care the planet through the non-use of plastic, recycling, minimal use of paper,, free pesticides products and other ways
- Help kids to achieve their dreams through education, art and sports
- Create truly fair salary Job for all our workers
OUR VISION
Our main objective is to organize well designed treks and tours with high quality customer service, with the help of an excellent technical and professional team of tour guides, chefs, porters, drivers, sales representatives, etc.
At the same time, the company has another main objective: to help children and communities in remote areas in the highlands through education, art and sports, and also to remunerate all our workers with a fair salary; in addition to everything mentioned, protect and respect our home «our planet».
OUR VALUES
- Punctuality: in this case reference is made to this value to require employees to respect the arrival and departure times, but especially to customers, for examples when responding to travel questions and confirmation of the purchased services.
- Quality: in this case it is intended that the products or services offered are of excellence.
- Consequence: refers to the coherence that employers must have towards their workers, such as the company with customers. In case there are commitments they must be fulfilled.
- Justice: this concept has a greater orientation for our workers. Reference is made to grant each one what he deserves, not only from the salary point of view but also as regards the activities that each one will have to perform.
- Communication: as long as communication is taken as a fundamental value, it is intended that the relations and connections within the members of the company and with the clients be fluid and sincere.
- Responsibility: it has several orientations. For example, if workers are referred to, the company is committed to stability and good working conditions. As for customers, the company is committed to delivering quality goods and services. Something that is also very important today is the commitment to the environment. For this it is necessary to comply with the laws and even exceed them to continue with their preservation.
- Originality: refers to innovations, changes and creations both in goods and services, in labor methodologies and strategies.
- Security: This trial is aimed at generating a bond of trust, which customers believe will be satisfied in their needs and desires.
- Freedom: in this case it is intended that both employees and customers can express themselves with total security in case they have different beliefs or opinions, provided they are presented with respect and cordiality.
- Teamwork: from this one the integration of each one of the members of the company to the work group is tried, so that better results are promoted thanks to a positive environment. For this, the participation of the different members of the company in various fields is essential.
- Honesty: oriented both for the members of the company with each other, as with customers. The truth is promoted as an elementary tool to build trust and credibility of the company.