Ramón Portela
Citizenship: Cuba and Nicaragua
Languages: Spanish
Portela is a specialist in hotels and restaurants management. Portela specializes in areas as: F&B, hotel hospitality, tourism quality control, big events organization and economic development. He is also an expert in such outdoor tourism as hunting, fishing and scuba diving.
Portela is brings a vast wealth of knowledge to his clients and students in the area of hotel and restaurant managers and executive’s chefs. Portela;s world vision comes from his training both in the Caribbean and in Europe. He developed many of his techniques both in Havana and Varadero, Cuba, brings a touch of the Caribbean to wherever he goes. In 1983 Portela received his bachelor ‘s degree in the fields of tourism economics and international tourism organization from Bulgaria’s High National Institute of Economy Dimiter Blagoev in Varna. Portela resides in Managua, Nicaragua. He is the former Dean of the Tourism faculty of the University of Economy Sciences (Managua, Nicaragua).
Portela is highly involved in Central American tourism development. As such he consults throughout the nation on hotel and restaurant development. In 2009 he organized the Central American Seminar of Tourism and Citizen security.
