METROPOLITAN TOURING ECUADOR

Metropolitan Touring is one Latin America’s foremost destination management company, established in 1953 and operating in Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia. The company is regarded as the heritage brand of the Galapagos Islands, having pioneered expeditions to the islands in the 1960s and today proudly take guests onboard the company’s trio of expedition cruise vessels: Santa Cruz II, Isabela II and La Pinta. Alongside their boats, Metropolitan Touring’s holding group owns three individually-branded hotels: the Finch Bay Eco Hotel on Santa Cruz Island; Mashpi Lodge, a strikingly-contemporary eco-lodge in a private cloudforest reserve brimming with biodiversity, just three hours’ drive from Quito; and Casa Gangotena, a beautifully-restored mansion house in the historic heart of Quito.

Metropolitan Touring is one Latin America’s foremost destination management company, established in 1953 and operating in Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. The company is regarded as the heritage brand of the Galapagos Islands, having pioneered expeditions to the islands in the 1960s and today proudly take guests onboard the company’s trio of expedition cruise vessels: Santa Cruz II, Isabela II and La Pinta. Alongside their boats, Metropolitan Touring’s holding group owns three individually-branded hotels: the Finch Bay Eco Hotel on Santa Cruz Island; Mashpi Lodge, a strikingly-contemporary eco-lodge in a private cloudforest reserve brimming with biodiversity, just three hours’ drive from Quito; and Casa Gangotena, a beautifully-restored mansion house in the historic heart of Quito.