AmoLatina

AmoLatina is an online dating service that provides men worldwide with the opportunity to meet women from Latin America. In 2011, the company began to offer tours from North America to Colombia for a fee, so that North American men can find their ideal women.
The dating site also started one of the first beauty pageants to be based on dating.
History
AmoLatina was first founded in November 2007 and was called LatinWomenSite.com. It was originally a spin-off website from the international dating brand AnastasiaDate. The Latin women dating spin-off was launched alongside AfricaBeauties and AsianBeauties by the original founders of AnastasiaDate, David and Elena Besuden.
Following the foundation of the website, the company began to run a number of beauty pageants and contests during the early years of the company. LatinWomenSite.com during this period rebranded as AmoLatina and also opened a dedicated phone line so the website could operate independently. In 2010, the company first travelled to the city of Medellín in Colombia in order to research the potential of Colombia as a potential location for their dating tours. The managing director at the time said they had an "overwhelming" response from American men with tours to the city of Medellín in Colombia.
Following the success of the tours, the AmoLatina brand expanded their operations and opened a dedicated office in Medellín, which was to be their main South American base. Medellín was chosen as the base for AmoLatina due to the city's reputation for having an unbalanced ratio of women to men. According to Antioquia's State Press Secretary, Rafael Restrepo Aramburo, there are 20% more women than men between the ages of 20 and 54, making it very difficult for ladies to find a husband. Families in the city typically have three girls and one boy in a family of four children, which was the most common number of children at the time in Medellin.
The move to Medellín allowed the dating company to provide AmoLatina beauty pageants on an annual basis from 2011 onwards. The pageants were used as a way to enhance the reputation of AmoLatina in western countries and show that the beautiful women are real. They began by launching AmoLatina Colombia 2011, and after its success they continued with other pageants. The pageant's were launched alongside additional dating tours, that were provided to various locations in Colombia. In 2012, Journalist Harmon Leon participated in an AmoLatina tour to Colombia. His account featured on blogs for both the Huffington Post and The San Francisco Chronicle. AmoLatina later began offering tours for American men to both Cali and Bogotá. Some have complained about the effectiveness of the site on various review websites, despite leading media sites not mentioning these problems in their coverage.
AmoLatina was mentioned in Dan Slater's novel, "Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating." Dan Slater joined a romance tour to Colombia with American men, members of AmoLatina. For $1,595 a head, the men travelled to Medellín, attended two "socials" where there were 20 women for each man, and had the services of concierges and translators to help them with their dates.
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