Who gets most?

Volume 2, Issue 5

November 2009

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Getting the most out of Roda!

We meet a lot of visitors in the course of a season and each one has their own preferred formula for a summer vacation in Roda. Accommodation is naturally the biggest deciding factor for their stay in the village and the choice of where to stay may significantly influence the enjoyment of their holiday in more ways than they might imagine.
There are three main categories of accommodation to choose from and that all-important choice may directly influence the enjoyment of their holiday. Most people who visit the village will travel either independently, buy a package holiday or stay at an all-inclusive complex. All the accommodations may well be in, or very near to Roda, so how can the choice of venue influence the benefits so much?
It is well known that, as human beings, we each seek out freedom from care, danger, risk, anxiety or doubt and these issues form a key part in the choice of holiday accommodation. For many, the idea of there being ‘safety in

yet, in Roda, we see a lot of people doing just that, many of whom are less able to deal with emergencies by virtue of their age. These visitors are completely on their own, they have no travel

So who gets the most out of their holiday? The all-inclusive visitors may well have chosen their vacations for reasons of security and, to some extent, so may the package tour holidaymaker. The all-inclusive hotel is more impersonal and less friendly than a privately owned apartment in the centre of the village and visitors to these huge complexes may never even glimpse the unique friendliness of the Corfiot people. Package tour customers certainly have the opportunity to sample the delights of the village and at least they have a choice even if many decide not to exercise it, but the ones who get the most from the village have learned that safety is not an issue, there will be few mishaps and no attacks. They move freely beyond any concerns for safety & security and immerse themselves totally in the warmth of welcome that the people of Roda extend to all their visitors.
Three groups of people, all with one aim – to enjoy their hard earned summer vacation and strangely, they often pay much the same money for the privilege. Speaking throughout the year to people from each group, there is little doubt which gets the most from their holiday – it has to be the independent visitor.

Accommodation is naturally
the biggest deciding factor for their stay in the village

company to help them and there is far more opportunity for things to go wrong.
In the middle, we have the majority –

package tour holidaymakers who have most of the freedom of the independent travellers, but far less of the restrictions of the all-inclusives. There is still the comfort of being able to fall back on the tour operator if necessary, but how many of us actually believe that they have our best interests at heart?

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other worrying event.
To someone staying at an all-inclusive complex, the prospect of travelling independently might seem to be fraught with danger and to be reckless in the extreme,

Interestingly, psychologists believe that once security issues are satisfied, we move to a higher level of development and seek out friendship & intimacy. These are the qualities that both long-term visitors and newcomers to Roda cite as their main reason for wanting to return – the

numbers’ can make the prospect of staying ‘all-inclusive’ very attractive as they believe that by doing so they may be less likely to be the victim of a mishap, an accident, an attack or some

welcome freely given to them by local people and the support they get when the inevitable pro-blem or two arises.