Bozburun | Marmaris | Turkey

A group of luxury villa owners in Bozburun Peninsula Turkey have created a new brand and Web site to promote the Bozburun Peninsula to the British luxury travel market.

Seeing a gap in the market between the free or volume villa rental sites and the niche travel agencies a group of independent luxury villa owners on the Bozburun Peninsula have created a new ‘Luxury Villas Turkey’ brand, aimed primarily at the luxury British travel market. Its aim is to promote the Bozburun Peninsula as a high quality destination and offer the luxury villa holidays on the peninsula directly to guests.

According to John Cummins, the founder of this initiative. “Guests have expressed their frustration at having such a limited choice of villas on the Bozburun Peninsula, and for our part it is hard to get visibility on the large villa web sites as now there is a large amount of cheap villas swamping these sites, making them more like bazaars. This is our opportunity to promote the area and the best independent luxury villas as an alternative for guests”.

The group claim the advantage of booking directly with these independent luxury villas is that guests experience a more authentic rural Turkey experience as the owners are well connected in the villages, so guests are supporting sustainable tourism in the villages, providing employment and opportunities in the community. For example in the luxury villas featured on the site in the village of Orhaniye, all of the furniture was hand made in the village workshops and the villas were largely constructed using craftsmen from the village, with the support team living in the village.

To maintain the highest levels of quality, only villas that have been personally inspected and approved by the founder as offering a luxury holiday experience, with the villa constructed to the latest Turkish building standards are permitted to join this group.

The group has also linked up with the gulet owners of Bozburun to offer combined luxury villa and cruise holidays. Gulets are traditional wooden yachts and are made by hand locally in Bozburun, so are a good fit for the sustainable tourism values of this initiative.

To view the available independent luxury villas on the Bozburun Peninsula, please browse the web site at http://www.luxuryvillasturkey.com.

About Luxury Villas Turkey:

Luxury Villas Turkey is a new initiative, formed by luxury villa owners on the Bozburun Peninsula to promote the area as a quality destination to the luxury British travel market. John Cummins is founder of Luxury Villas Turkey and can be contacted on +44 7767 473057 or john@luxuryvillasturkey.com.

On Sunday 14^th February, Annabelle Thorpe of the Observer writes about a driving holiday from Izmir to Dalaman, driving to the Bozburun Peninsula via Ephesus, Mugla. On the Bozburun Peninsula they visited Bayir, Sogut and Dionysos. You can read the full article here. We are pleased that they referenced www.BozburunPeninsula.com as the reference web site for more information on Bozburun Peninsula and its villages.

The Bozburun Accommodation Guide has launched a new service showing community photos of Bozburun and the surrounding areas. The Bozburun photo gallery gives an insight into the delights of Bozburun and is intended to give guests an insight into the beauty of Bozburun and the Bozburun Peninsula, so helping them make an informed choice about their next holiday destination.

www.Bozburuninfo.com is a new community site launched by tourist businesses in Bozburun to help guests find suitable holiday accommodation or gulet cruises directly with the owners, saving time and money.

In a bid to help guests to the Bozburun Peninsula find accommodation in Bozburun itself rather than Marmaris, the tourist businesses in Bozburun have created a community web site at www.bozburuninfo.com . It enables guests to quickly view and select the range of quality holiday accommodation available in Bozburun and the surroundings. This ranges from simple bed and breakfast houses, to boutique hotels, private gulet cruises, to luxury Turkish villas with private pools. Guests looking for a fabulous private gulet cruise or mixed cruise/villa holiday will save money by dealing directly with the owners.

Many guests do not realize that when they book a tourist gulet cruise through a travel agent, the agency takes a large part of your money so the actual owner has to cut costs on the cruise, which is not good for your experience or the owner himself. By booking direct you are sure to get pampered by the crew and enjoy an unforgettable holiday sailing the local waters, which are considered the finest in the Mediterranean.

This site also features some luxurious Turkish Villas that are considered the finest on the Bozburun Peninsula. They have been constructed as village projects, with most of the craftsmen living locally, so your holiday provides sustainable income for the local villages.

The big news for 2010 is that Bozburun is set to get its own Harbour Customs Post in April to provide local Customs clearance services for local gulet cruises that sail to Simi, Rhodes and the other Greek islands close by. This is fantastic news for the town as now gulet cruises can now start at Bozburun, rather than Marmaris, Datca or Bodrum. The Customs post will operate throughout the season this year.

This will be a big boost to Bozburun tourism as cruises will now enter and leave Turkey via Bozburun. Gulet cruises starting in Selimiye and Orhaniye heading to the Greek islands can now directly clear Customs at Bozburun, avoiding the previous long detour to Datca Customs down the Datca peninsula.

A gulet in the harbour