VAOVA · Colombian DMC · The art of happenings
VAOVA illustration of a Colombian silletero carrying flowers, waving his hat, with a tropical bird — The art of happenings.
SITE Crystal Award · 2026

Colombia DMC for incentive travel.

Programs they live.
Then never forget.

SITE Crystal Award 2026 winner and three-time ProColombia National Tourism Award recipient. For twelve years our in-house team has designed and operated incentives, meetings and events in Colombia. Happenings are the artistic peaks inside those programs.

200+

incentive travel, university trek and corporate retreat programs since 2013

12+ years

specialized in incentive travel — never a generalist agency

45in-house

A 45-person DMC · own offices in Bogotá, Medellín & Cartagena

SITE Crystal Award

2026 · Latin America & Caribbean

ProColombia

Recognized 2020 · 2021 · 2025

SITE Member

Global incentive travel society

Ovation Global DMC

Trusted strategic partner

International network

USA · UK · Benelux · Poland · Brazil

Convention Bureaus

Bogotá · Medellín · Cartagena

Trusted by

  • Amazon
  • McKinsey
  • KFC
  • YPO
  • Toyota
  • Quálitas
  • AbInBev
  • HPN
  • Ringana
  • WeTravel
  • Goodleap

What we do

Four practices. One in-house studio.

The same Colombian team plans and operates four kinds of travel: incentive programs, meetings, university treks and leisure. Colombia DMC.

Magical Universe Blast — a VAOVA Happening with 22 dancers performing contemporary dance inspired by García Márquez
The Happenings methodology

WOW

Engineered by 4 people in-house

What the industry calls WOW factor

Anyone can move a group from hotel to venue. We design the twenty minutes they still talk about a year later.

A Happening is the artistic moment we place inside a program — a dinner reveal, a parade, a performance. Concept, art direction, choreography and production sit in the same studio, shaped for that group and that night.

Four people in one studio develop the concept and production for each program, including the SITE Crystal Award 2026.

9

Signature Happenings in catalog

4

People in the in-house studio

1

Studio. Concept and production in-house.

Colombia Coffee Region UNESCO Cultural Landscape — VAOVA

Plan your program

Let's design something
nobody else can.

Tell us about your group, your dates and what you want the program to achieve. We'll come back with a proposal built around your brief.