IF THE OWNER SLEEPS WELL,
THE GUESTS SLEEP BETTER

From my grandmother's kitchen to the hotels of Europe

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My name is Gabriel A. Cadenas. I was born in Caracas, Venezuela, on October 26, 1995. I am a Venezuelan-German citizen — born and raised in Venezuela, formed as a professional in Germany. Hommy Consulting is the bridge I have spent my life walking, and the work I came here to do.

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I grew up in Caracas, in a house where the door was never closed. Every day, relatives, neighbors and my grandmother's friends would come into the living room. They would sit for hours, talking over hot coffee. Many came simply for lunch — there was always rice and beans on the stove, fried plantain, one more chair at the table. On Fridays and Saturdays, the street filled with cars because someone was celebrating a birthday. My aunt prepared the snacks with a care I didn't yet understand. When I came home from school, I helped my grandmother prepare the spare room for a friend traveling in from out of town.

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That was my first school of hospitality. Long before I knew the word existed.

At thirteen, I wanted to learn English. My mother thought it was something only the wealthy did. My grandmother paid for it, month after month, for three years, out of her pension. Those three years changed everything. At eighteen, I left Venezuela with two tools: that English and a hospitable heart.

I arrived in Panama. I washed cars for weeks, twelve hours a day. Then two Italian entrepreneurs gave me a chance at the front desk of their newly opened hostel. I spent nearly two years there, day and night surrounded by travelers from all over the world. That was where I confirmed my calling: to host, to help, to guide. And it was where I met a German woman who would become my wife.

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Between trips from Panama to Hamburg, three months in Bogotá learning German, a visit to Caracas and a wedding in Denmark, I arrived in Germany. Two weeks later, I had a job at the front desk of a small hotel in central Stuttgart.

From there, nine years of continuous learning, one step at a time. Receptionist at a small Turkish family-owned hotel group in central Stuttgart. Receptionist at a French hotel chain. Front Office Manager at a German chain of more than 180 hotels. Deputy General Manager at a British group. General Manager at a Brazilian apartment-hotel brand. Revenue Manager. Along the way, serious training: Hotel Administrator certified by the German Chamber of Commerce, specialist in Sustainable Tourism from the Düsseldorf Institute, Tourism Administrator from the Weigand Institute in Frankfurt, and Personal and Business Coach by the German Hotel Academy in Cologne.​

Why Hommy Consulting

Today I am the father of a three-year-old girl. Watching her grow has taught me something simple: what we care for with patience and principles grows well. What we neglect leaves a mark too. 

Beyond the hotels I have led, I have traveled to more than 23 countries and hundreds of properties — from a small capsule hotel in Jerusalem to a safari lodge in Cape Town. I have experienced hospitality in all its colors and forms. That has given me something the operating role alone could never give: a clearer sense of what really matters, and what is only noise.

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I want to bring everything I've learned back — above all to Latin America, where I was born. I want to help build a Latin American hotel experience with the quality standards I saw and apply in Europe — without losing the soul my grandmother taught me in her Caracas home.

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Hommy Consulting was born from this. From the conviction that true hospitality is technical, yes, but also something older: it is the hot coffee waiting when someone knocks at the door.