Work, commitment and dedicated lives to showing Brazil that inspires. This is the story of Compass Brazil.
Compass Brazil is a leading incoming tour operator and Destination Management Company based in Rio de Janeiro. The company comprises various departments that focus on leisure travel for FIT and groups, special interest travel for niche sectors, custom incentive experiences and hospitality services for events and congresses.
Our mission is to provide fascinating travel experiences in Brazil, grounded in the core values of singular hospitality, innovation, sustainability.
Compass Brazil’s experienced travel experts provide comprehensive services throughout the travel process, from marketing strategies and product development to post-trip support and evaluations, delivering great value, high-quality travel services in Brazil with impeccable reliability.
We give preference to suppliers that are certified or have been verified for their sustainable practices. It is part of our commitment to encourage all our partners to help the conservation of natural resources and provide benefits for the local communities.
We know how important it is to conserve Brazil’s natural and cultural heritage, the key ingredient for travel experiences in Brazil.
To ensure that our tour operations have a positive impact on the destinations, the compass group works hard to adhere to a specific set of Sustainable Tourism Principles.
Compass Brazil has sustainability as one of its pillars. In all our processes, we value harm reduction and environmental awareness. For this reason, the company has been certified with the “Climate Guardians” seal, a collaborative network with the purpose of safeguarding the climate, protecting and restoring forests, spreading low carbon agriculture, dignifying forest people, resignifying life in its many forms and sow peace.
Considering Sustainable Tourism as a relatively new concept in the tourism industry, we support the a specific set of environmental code of ethics as a guideline to help explain and demonstrate the concepts behind sustainable tourism and to inform tourists of ways in which they can travel responsibly.
Compass Brazil is proud to be one of the best DMC & Inbound Tour Operators in Brazil, and continue to provide fascinating travel experiences in Brazil, grounded in the core values of singular hospitality, innovation, sustainability.
A new process of repositioning the brand, merging our brands of Tours & Travel, Special Interests, Incentives, Events & Congress under the single name of Compass Brazil.
Cristina Grahn takes the lead company in Rio de Janeiro, bringing dynamism and new business opportunities.
Opening of Scandinavian Plus in Natal and Porto de Galinhas. Under the leadership of Cristina Grahn, this office was responsible for ground service operations for charter flights from Europe. SCANplus chatered to important tourism brands including TUI Nordic, Thomas Cook, Kuoni, Apollo, Club de Vacaciones and Iberojet.
Cristina Grahn and Roberto Mourao create the brand Brazil Ecotravel, focused on Specialized Tourism segment, especially ecotourism. The focus is to minimize the negative environmental and socio-cultural impacts as well as to promote economic benefits to the local community and enhance the destinations.
Operating in markets other than Scandinavian, the operator gets the name Compass Brazil. The compass symbolizes our ability to receive and guide the tourists from around the world.
Roberto Mourao, environmentalist and ecotourism and sustainable tourism expert that received the Green Diploma in Rio-92, joins the company. With his support the operator joins early adaptors of the global trend responsible and sustainable tourism, implementing good operational practices and becoming a reference in ecotourism in Brazil.
After a process of rebranding, Sasplus was founded as an international inbound operator, specializing in the Scandinavian market, in the Group operation, Series and incentives.
At 21, Cristina begins her career in tourism as receptionist at Diana. Shortly after, she became an operations agent and grew with the company until the early 1990s.
Entrepreneur Erik Grahn purchase the licensed Diana Tourism agency. This marks the beginning of our international inbound operator that exists today.
Erik Grahn, a Swedish economist, founder of Compass Brazil, discovers the beauties of Rio de Janeiro and Brazil working as a tour guide. Soon after as a travel agent he realizes the country’s potential as a tourist destination.
