María Fernanda, teaches you to know the country with Cavernícolas Travel RD

It offers personalized service, staff and security in each of its excursions

Tourism is known as the social, cultural and economic phenomenon that involves a displacement of people within their country of origin or abroad. This movement is made for personal or work reasons.

For the young entrepreneur María Fernanda Villega Agüero, discovering new places and being in contact with nature is vital. For this reason, he started his project Cavernícolas Travel RD, almost four years ago.

The entrepreneur explains that her initiative arose from the need to teach Dominicans, through their ecological tourism, how valuable their country is and the natural wonders it possesses.

“It motivated me to know that I could make people love our country and its benefits without seeing tourism as just hotels.
I am a faithful believer that this project has awakened in many the desire to want to know more and more about the Dominican Republic,” he tells elCaribe.

Villega Agüero states that the fuse of the enterprise was born thanks to her friends, who, seeing her constantly traveling, asked her to organize small adventures and get them involved.

The young woman defines Cavernícolas Travel RD as a family travel agency, where “you arrive on an excursion and from there you leave with an adventurous family.”

He jokingly narrates that the name of the agency is inspired by the song by the Guatemalan singer Ricardo Arjona, entitled cavemen. And it is that the entrepreneur thinks that this word refers to a person who adapts to any habitat.

“Our clients are like cavemen, they adapt to any place and enjoy each of the experiences that discovering our country gives us to the limit,” she says full of pride.

María Fernanda is a chemical engineer by profession and, during the interview, she stated that she studied this career out of passion, however, she assures that she is a tourist at heart.

“I think that if I had to summarize something about myself, I would say that I am a chemical engineer by passion, a teacher by vocation and a tourist at heart,” she points out.

You can contact María Fernanda Villega Agüero on the social networks of Instagram and Facebook as @CAVERNICOLASTRAVELRD.

María Fernanda expresses that she discovered in February 2018 how important it was to give people a moment of relief and tranquility, which could only be obtained with travel and with the calm that nature provides.

“I did the first excursion for February 2018 and the users were delighted and asking about the next adventure. There I discovered that I could offer travel experiences with my personal stamp”, he recalls.

Air tickets, hotel and villa reservations are some of the offers that the young businesswoman’s agency always has.
Villega Agüero affirms that among the most visited tourist spots are the towns of Samaná, Punta Cana, Puerto Plata, Barahona and Bonao.

“We have four years of growth, the last year being the best, while this pandemic ended many businesses, it gave us a significant boost. We created two-day curfew tours and it was a success,” he explains.

He specifies that, according to his clients, the personalized service in each excursion, the staff, the quality and the security that he provides are the elements that make his travel agency the preferred one.

In addition to the travel agency, the entrepreneur works as a Quality Manager at Caribbean Glass Industry, a glass factory, and teaches at the Pedro Henríquez Ureña National University (Unphu) and at the Santo Domingo Technological Institute (Intec).

For María Fernanda her mother, Mrs. Enemencia Agüero, was her main role model to get out in life, being the values ​​of work, responsibility and honesty her guide when acting. “The person who has most influenced me to be the María Fernanda that everyone knows is my mother Enemencia. She is very affectionate”, he expresses with admiration.

He narrates that his childhood was a constant learning, which helped him get a job at a young age and help his mother support the house. Rate your home as a fun and loving environment.

He assures that his income has changed significantly thanks to his Cavernícolas Travel RD initiative, since, he assures, that until now it is profitable and sustainable. “My family has been my staff, my mother is the soul of the party, who sets the spark with her antics and her dances. My boyfriend and my brother have also joined 10 percent, thanks for everything, “he says.
She affirms that her friends Melissa and Keidy are a fundamental part in the development of the agency, supporting it unconditionally from day one.

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He urged young people who want to start a business to always try without fear of failure. “The only thing you should be afraid of is not trying.”