Destination management company Metropolitan Touring has unveiled new itineraries highlighting Cuenca, Ecuador. The largest city of Azuay Province, whose first inhabitants arrived 10,000 years ago, ...

I was asked that at least a dozen times when I told folks I had booked a short trip to the South American country. At the time, the answer was that my husband, who has an Indian passport, didn’t need ...

WHY IT RATES: Travel agents have the chance to educate themselves on Ecuador and its unique offerings to clients.—Donald Wood, Breaking News Senior Writer. Wholesale FIT tour operator Avanti ...

Metropolitan Touring is offering railway bookings from Quito, Ecuador, to the coastal city of Guayaquil, combined with an overnight stay in Quito or Guayaquil. Passengers will ride in custom-designed ...

Metropolitan Touring Ecuador, one of the largest tour operators in Ecuador, has acquired Receptour Peru. Receptour Peru will now sell all tour services under the Metropolitan Touring Peru brand, as ...

AS I STOOD on a trailhead in northern Ecuador, in the town of Baeza, the sky above me was implausibly blue. My backpack was weighed down by the 3-pound, 970-page “Birds of Ecuador Field Guide,” the ...

Welcome to Coca: “The unavoidable starting point for many of Ecuador’s most fascinating jungle tours,” proclaims Lonely Planet. And also the jumping off point for Ecuador’s Toxic Tour. Photo credit: ...

WHILE THE EGYPTIANS were building pyramids, the Druids were hauling blocks to Stonehenge and the Chinese were mapping out their wall, Ecuadoreans were making drinks. But what they were imbibing may ...