Viaventure has announced that their company director Becky Harris has been named a Condé Nast Traveler 2012 Top Travel Specialist for Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras.

It’s no small feat, as more than a thousand tour operators were considered.

Harris, who is based in Guatemala, will help visitors unearth these three countries’ best-kept secrets – perhaps through a helicopter tour to a desert island – and will keep guests away from the areas thick with cruise ship crowds.

Her roster of guides includes archaeologists and scientists, with whom you might locate tagged manatees off the coast in Belize, or, in Guatemala, helicopter deep into the jungle to visit the archaeological site El Mirador.

According to Condé Nast Traveler, travel specialists “represent the best blend of destination knowledge, insider connections, user-friendliness, and value for your dollar” and were chosen by both magazine readers and editors.

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