Worldia

Gregoire is one of the 4 co-founders of Worldia. After enjoying his studies to discover Asia and South America, he starts his carreer in sports bettings before meeting his associates. Their shared passion for travel does the rest and they launch Worldia to offer the best possible experience at every stage of a journey!

His best travel memory? 10 days out of time between the Atacama Desert in Peru and the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia.

After spending 23 years in Lyon, Manuel began his career in the South-East of France in 2005. Now a father of 3 children, he still enjoys this beautiful region nestled between the sea and mountains with his family.

Manuel has a passion for computer science, nurturing his teams to grow, enhancing organizational performance, as well as traveling with his family, enjoying nature, engaging in sports, sailing, and tending to his garden...

His best travel memory? A sunset on the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, accompanied by the applause of thousands of spectators – a truly magical moment to experience.

After finishing her Masters in Journalism and French, Aja moved to Paris and joined her first start-up. It was a company offering high-end guided tours, which they launched from scratch.

Aja learned the principles of marketing, international business and product sourcing which helped her pave the path towards larger corporations. She later joined the Galeries Lafayette group, where she was in charge of the European market. Three years later, at BHV Marais, she created the International Clients Department, took over the 60-member Customer Service team and ultimately became a board member.

In 2020 Aja joined the Worldia adventure, and today holds the position of CMO Marketing.

Her best travel memory? An adrenaline rally car driving on ice in the Finnish arctic !

Hospitality, airline company, tour operator, it is quite simple, Tourism is a passion to David. His last experience in leading a travel agencies' network nurtured the idea of Worldia. All that was needed was to meet his partners and the adventure could begin.

What drives David? Offering the best possible service to his clients!

His best travel memory? Without a doubt, Cambodia, thanks to an unforgettable visit with a tour guide who had lived through the oppression of the Khmer Rouge. He made David and his family discover his country with great enthusiasm and sensitivity

Of Russian-Armenian origin, Daiana came to France to pursue her higher education in hospitality in Bordeaux and later in Chambéry. She moved to Paris to join the Accor Group, where she started working as a Multi-Hotel Revenue Manager.

Continuing her career trajectory in the hospitality industry, she took on the role of Assistant Director, where she discovered a passion for Operations. In 2022, Daiana joined the Worldia team in the operations department, taking on the management of the After-Sales team.

Her best travel memory? The discovery of Lake Baikal in March, its tranquility and vastness.

Originally from Saint Brieuc, Melissa pursued her studies in communication and digital marketing in the south of France before relocating to Paris.

Following a temporary assignment at Worldia, the dynamic of the operations resonated with her, leading her to make a professional shift. She joined the customer service team and steadily climbed the ranks internally, becoming the Team Leader of the Post-Travel service in January 2023.

At Worldia, it's a vibrant community of travelers, each with stories to tell and memories to share.

Her best travel memory? The one from Greece, where, after descending and ascending the 600 steps to reach the port of Oia, she cried upon realizing she had left her bag at the restaurant and needed to go back down to retrieve it.

After studying in countries near and far, such as Thailand, Indonesia, the Netherlands and England, Lisa initially joined the Travel Industry, creating holidays for the super rich. For 5 years she enjoyed the English countryside and the local customs of having Sunday Roast’s, before home was calling for her.

Lucky for us, Lisa wanted to return to Germany and decided to join Worldia, where she initially took charge of the first german accounts before overseeing the overall sales development of non french speaking markets.

To her, team work and never taking yourself too seriously is the best way to get work done whilst also enjoying yourself. In her free time Lisa has not quite lost her affiliation with England and still loves spending time there whenever possible, walking the Cotswolds with her family, friends and her little rescue dog.

Her best travel memory? Diving with Manta Rays, off the Island of Flores in Indonesia.

Christian, he's the IT Master. After studying business, he joined PwC as a financial auditor. Reaching a management position in transaction services after 5 years, he decided to change career paths and to focus on one of his childhood hobbies: software development.

For him, Worldia is the human and entrepreneurial dimension of adventure. Always elevate and build team skills is his mantra. He is charge of the development of our product and shaping new features for our users. With family or friends, Christian likes road-trips, countryside weekends and sliding sports, summer and winter.

His best travel memories are mexican margaritas and sunsets.

Born in South Korea, after master in film studies at Panthéon Sorbonne, Hwa-Seon began working in the film industry, travelling through cities of films like Cannes, Berlin, London, etc, which gave her a first taste of travel.

After glorious years in film industry, she took courses in 2016 to become web developer which was one of her long-time interest and knew at her first work at Fédération Française d'Equitation that she was interested in backend job rather than frontend and continued her carrier as a backend developer in a pure Saas startup company before joining Worldia in 2020.

Hwa-Seon likes fictions happening in Nordic countries, the greatness of high mountains and exploring culinary world.

Her best travel memory? A mix of two different universes, road trip in greyish Scotland under the sublime and lonely landscape with lambs and lochs and then continued the trip to Marrakech for sunny relaxation !

Born in the suburbs of Paris, Alison quickly exiled herself in search of sunshine in Marseille to pursue her graduate studies at Euromed Management.

After some experience in the media (Havas, Prisma Media) she made her debut as a commercial in a recruitment firm specialized in tech. Then, she decides to join the Worldia adventure whose concept and philosophy are in harmony with its own values and desires: travel, innovation, fun and ambition! She enters as a business developer, quickly assembles her team and becomes sales manager to finally take the position of Head of Sales after 3 years.

Her best travel memory? Crossing Nicaragua in a backpack and having the chance to hit the Cerro Negro volcano on a surfboard or swimming in the Laguna de Apoyo, a splendid lake nestled in the middle of a crater.