São Paulo - Overview

Established in Brazil since 1999, HVS São Paulo is the only consulting company in Brazil that offers a full array of services in both the hotel and tourism industries. For this reason, its clients benefit from the synergy that exists between the two industries.

The HVS team is composed of engineers, administrators and hoteliers, the majority of whom have graduate degrees and solid professional experience in tourism and hotel administration, guaranteeing high quality advice in both hotel and tourism projects.

Diogo Canteras, the HVS São Paulo Office’s managing director, has more than 20 years experience in the national and international hospitality industry. He is also a renowned professor of hotel development at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), a highly regarded business school in Latin America. Having focused the greater part of his professional life to the development of hospitality properties, Diogo Canteras has become one of the most respected specialists in the structuring of business opportunities in Brazil. This has enabled HVS to establish partnerships with its international clients to develop low risk and high return opportunities.

HVS’s clients rely on its support in the definition of investment and financing strategies in the tourism and hospitality industries. They are private and public institutions, Brazilian and international investors, who look for new opportunities to expand their business with the maximum of profitability and safety. HVS São Paulo Office’s Asset Management division maintains a website called Hotelinvest, through which its clients access valuable information about their properties. The website is also used by HVS to publish articles and market analyses.