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Community
The food is sourced locally and our gusts buy their food in small family owned shops, as well as milk, honey, eggs, veggies, village bread, fish and carpets from families living in Selimiye. The complex is run in a socially and environmentally sustainable manner employing only local people. The owner, in his thirty years of integration with the village, has educated village people and craftsmen as a Professor of Business and Tourism Management, as a sailor, as a skipper, as an industrial engineer and amateur architect. The owner has built the state road by the Villa by his own means and is responsible for maintaining it. Traditional Turkish cookery courses and village dishes are special to the locality andf are taught to the guests as well as Turkish, to returning guests of nearly 13 years! Computer literacy and English is tought to local children and some older computers of the complex are given them as motivation.
As a principle, the villa owner uses people locally to clean, guide locally, drive to nearby town or for airport transfers, boat repairs and sailing crew , construction, repairs, tailoring, gardening, carpentry, fishing ,daily boat trips, cut and prune trees, etc. The owner has set the example for website preparation and the usage of internet portals for advertising the Village and tourist facilities so that soft tourism gained momentum in the locality.
Environment
The whole area is in a Special Conservation Law are, which limits the effect hotels or other constructions can have on the environment. In the daily boat trips that are arranged by the management, even our guests are oriented to go with a dingy and collect the drift garbage at the islands or bays visited. The organically grown food is served to the guests to an extend. The waste food is fed to the animals and their manure is used on the fields. Bottles and cans are recycled , plastics and metal are collected by the scrap merchant as it is brought by us to the town of Marmaris.
The villa is located in an area 'off the beaten track' and provides a means for the local community to obtain self sufficiency. The villas and facilities blend in with the landscape, using local stone and timber, and local decorative material and handcrafts are used for furnishing. Solar heating was employed fully in the past but now is limited. Old almond trees are pruned every autumn and the wood is utilized all winter for the fireplaces.
The owner donates equipment or money to the Village Health Centre and donates a fixed sum monthly to the Village Administration Body for the sustainment of the garbage collection system.
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