Paul’s passion for travel started with his grandparents Jacobo and Clara, as they took him on a six-week summer trip to New York, Paris, Turkey, and Israel when he was 13 years old. This trip opened his eyes to new cultures, new experiences, and the world of global travel.
When he was 16 he had the opportunity to travel with his mom and brother on a 2-month backpacking trip around Europe. At 18, he decided to embark on a 12-month backpacking trip around the world where he got the chance to sleep with a Masai Tribe in Kenya, hike to the Annapurna Base Camp, learned to Dive in Egypt, took a Thai massage course in Thailand, and he constantly experienced things he had never done before.
These trips changed his life, and decided that he wanted to do a business that was related to travel somehow. He went to Babson College, in Boston, where he studied Entrepreneurship and started working on a business plan during his time there, and by the end of college he won the Business Plan award for his soon-to-be Bamba Experience.
At the age of 24 he embarked on his first entrepreneurial journey, went back to Mexico and together with his lifelong friend Arturo Martinez launched and created a very successful global tour operation business which still operates today www.bambatravel.com.