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Complete services to make your stay at CIAT more enjoyable.


For further information contact:
Dalia Bello


[Transportation] [Banking Services] [Travel Office AVIATUR]
[Post/Telecomunications Office] [Institutional Security] [Laundry] [Security Box]
[Selling of CIAT Souvenirs] [[Medical Services]

Transportation

Transfer Services Airport-CIAT

The transfer between the airport and CIAT can be arranged through our team for an additional fee. (US$10; holidays and nights, US$15).

Taxi service available at the airport.

CIAT Buses

CIAT has several bus routes between different terminals in the cities of Cali and Palmira and CIAT headquarters.

Map Cali-Airport-CIAT

Banking Services

The Banco de Crédito has a long trajectory and a soundness in both national and international markets that places it as a financial institution of the first order. Its services are based on personalized attention and the development of portfolios of integrated financial solutions designed to meet its clients' individual requirements.

The network of localized offices in the country's principal cities operates within a sophisticated financial structure, built to serve its clients' financial expectations with regard to Investments, Financing, Corporate Business, and International Business. A hallmark of its services is the warm personal attention.

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Travel Office AVIATUR

For your greater convenience, you may use the services of the AVIATUR travel agency branch set up within CIAT. The agency offers you the following services:

  • Confirms your reservations for your return trip
  • Offers tourist packages and cruises
  • Modifies reservations and routes of your return trip if so desired or if the work plan at CIAT so requires it. However, ticket conditions sometimes may not permit such modifications
  • Makes reservations with national or international hotels
  • Provides timely and effective advice on visas required by some countries, provided that you comply with the requirements established by international official entities
  • Programs national excursions of tourist interest

Working hours are 7:30 am to 4:30 pm, Mondays through Fridays. English is spoken.

Post Office

The Post Office offers you various services, both at national and international levels, without your having to leave the Center. These services are:

  • International couriers (door-to-door service), such as DHL, Federal Express, and IBC
  • Traditional airmail services, such as Adpostal
  • National door-to-door services, such as Deprisa, Servientrega, and Aeroenvíos
  • Sale of national and international airmail stamps
  • Mail service to CIAT-Miami on Tuesdays and Fridays. This service should be paid for at the CIAT-Palmira Post Office and duly stamped in the CIAT-Miami Office. (This service is much more economical and quicker for shipments to USA)
  • Mail service from airport to airport

Telecommunications Office

The Telecommunications Office is in charge of operating and administering telecommunications equipment (e.g., fax, fax server, e-mail administration, satellite equipment, remote access equipment, and modem pool). Our liaison with the satellite Panamsat enables us to enjoy very reasonable rates, especially for telephone calls.

Institutional Security

The general objectives of the Center’s Department of Institutional Protection (DPI) are to:

  • Assist passangers at the airport and offer transportation to CIAT
  • Check that all CIAT’s personnel can carry out their tasks under reasonable safety
  • Minimize risks
  • Prevent threats and react on a timely basis in coordination with local authorities

The Basic Brigade for Immediate Reaction

CIAT’s Basic Brigade for Immediate Reaction is, as its name suggests, a working team trained to predict and attend emergencies that may occur within the Center’s work area. Its principal objective is to carry out an effective emergency plan in times of disaster at CIAT. This team is trained in:

  • First aid
  • Fire prevention and control
  • Evacuation and rescue
  • Chemical hazards

Laundry

Complete laundry services for hotel guests.

Security Box

CIAT guests may use a security box for their valuables at no extra cost.

Selling of CIAT Souvenirs

 

 

 

 

 

 

Medical Services

Social Security physician’s office open from 7:30 am to 4:30 pm.

For emergencies, CIAT has a Basic Transport Ambulance (known as "TAB"), which is provided with everything required for taking a patient to a medical center.

 

 

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