We spent years promoting Switzerland.
Now we design it.
Three friends, one country we love.
Carve was founded in 2026 by three tourism experts from Switzerland. We met through Swiss tourism, where we worked with travel advisors and tour operators from all over the world. We saw what was missing: a partner who knows the country inside out, answers fast, and treats every trip like it is their own. So we built it.
The founders
Carve is owned and run by its three Swiss co-founders. Whoever you work with, you are always working with a founder.
Céline Deplazes
Co-founder · Partnerships and Product · Lucerne
Formerly Market Manager at Lucerne Tourism, Céline brings a background in events and banking and long standing relationships across Central Switzerland.
Céline grew up in Uri, in the real Swiss countryside and in one of the cantons where Switzerland was founded. For her, it’s the most amazing place in Switzerland because it’s so true and authentic. Nature, mountains and a strong sense of home shaped her from the very beginning. Later she swapped the quiet valleys for the big city and spent a year in New York. That’s also where she met Florin.
Today Céline lives in Lucerne. She can never decide between a cozy brunch with friends, a ride through Switzerland on her road bike, or a run in the forest. In Lucerne she doesn’t have to choose. City and nature are right next to each other.
Florin Eggenberger
Co-founder · Sales North America · New York
Based in New York, Florin spent eight years as Trade Manager at Switzerland Tourism North America, working with luxury advisors and tour operators across the US and Canada.
Florin grew up in Buchs in the Rhine Valley, next to Werdenberg, the medieval town with a castle above the lake that is often called the smallest in Switzerland. Funny enough, he met both of his co-founders in New York, not at home. Mattia grew up in the same town, yet they only met when they ended up working side by side, almost 4,000 miles away. And Céline he first met eight years ago, during her internship in New York. Sometimes you have to leave home to find the right people.
Florin came to New York never planning to stay. Then love came along. Today he lives in Brooklyn, trying to get the best of both worlds. He has run from the streets of Buchs to the New York City Marathon finish line, plays tennis in summer, and in winter heads straight for the Swiss Alps to ski and cross-country ski.
Mattia La Regina
Co-founder · Development and Latin America · Zurich
Mattia grew up in Buchs, in the countryside of Eastern Switzerland, in the same town as Florin. He is deeply rooted there, but his curiosity about other cultures always pulled him out into the world. So he moved to Lausanne, studied management at the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) and fell for the Swiss Riviera, where vineyards run down to Lake Geneva and the Alps rise right behind them.
The same passion for travel took him across Switzerland and on to London, Madrid and New York. Along the way he worked in hospitality, at OMEGA and for two years at Switzerland Tourism, and he became fluent in English, German, Spanish and French.
Zurich is now his home base, and he knows the liveliest corners of the city. Off the clock you will find him on a soccer field, watching basketball, cooking for friends or listening to Afro-Caribbean sounds. And wherever he travels, he is happiest when he ends up at a local table, talking with the people who live there.
What we believe
Trustworthy. Human. Passionate. Next-Gen.
Trustworthy
Our years of experience in the travel industry gave us the necessary tools and the network to cater to your needs.
Human
In a world full of distractions, real human connection has become rare. That is where Carve comes in.
Next-Gen
We create trips for a new generation of travelers who want more than just sightseeing.
Passionate
Every journey we design, is one we would take ourselves.