Villa holiday in Cephalonia, Ranzo Ionio

This is a family run business and the cottages have all been built by the family using local building materials and traditional techniques to ensure that they are in keeping with the local environment. The furniture in the taverna was produced by local craftsmen using traditional techniques. The taverna uses all local produce, much of it from the owners own gardens.

Yiannis, the owner, does all his cooking in two clay ovens and this simple method produces an astonishing range of traditional dishes from organic locally grown ingredients:
Cooking done in a traditional way in the outdoor oven. The information pack and our local representative promote many of the local mini-markets, tavernas and businesses to ensure that local people gain maximum economic benefit from tourist revenues.

As a company we aim to encourage local economic growth and to work in harmony with local communities and to respect their culture, traditions and environments. All of our owners (bar one) and suppliers used are local. We prefer to employ the services of independent local business as suppliers in each of their destinations. We work with local car hire firms for all our car rentals, boat hire firms for boat rental and we utilize the services of local village shops and mini markets to compile our welcome hampers.

We also encourage our guests to use the services of local restaurants and shops, archeological sites/excursions - always booking through locals rather than large multi national companies. In addition to this we encourage our guests to visit local attractions and beaches within the area they are staying, as opposed to suggesting they go further afield.