TRAVEL & RESORTS
5 STAR VILLA HOLIDAYS
LAUNCH LUXURIOUS VILLA ESCAPES
IN THAILAND, INDONESIA, SRI LANKA AND THE MALDIVES
Luxury villa specialist 5 Star Villa Holidays have launched a range of
villas in Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, with 2000
new properties available for holiday rental.
The villa operator have also reported a 50% increase in enquiries
and villa bookings from the UK market during June 2020, a rise that
founder of 5 Star Villa Holidays, John Paul Donnelly, attributes to
post covid-19 customer behaviour:
“After an extremely quiet three months of business, enquiries and
bookings have massively increased in June. As an operator, we’ve
responded to the pandemic with new safety measures to help our
customers stay safe and also feel confident in booking their villa
holiday, like extra cleaning in our villas and the ability to change a
reservation to a later date if a guest can’t travel due to coronavirus.”
“I think some of the increased demand for villas is down to our
natural inclination to travel and get back to some normality post
covid-19, but also for the features that a villa offers like space,
privacy and control over your own environment. These factors are
more important than ever to customers now.”
“Taking holidays with extended family in one large villa has been
a trend for some time, and there are properties that cater for this
beautifully. An 8 bedroom villa will sleep 16 in luxury. Many families
have been touched by coronavirus, including enforced separation
from their loved ones, and these families are now taking joy in
planning for large family holidays together in a villa.”
The new locations for the villa specialist join its other destinations
in the United States, Turkey, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, Bulgaria,
New Zealand, Japan, Canada, Australia, Greece, Mexico and
the Philippines. Donnelly reports increased demand for villas in
perennial British holiday favourite Orlando as well as across its new
range of destinations, particularly Bali.
“Orlando is our best-selling destination, and has been for many
years, and I’m not surprised that it’s one of the first places that
travellers want to visit as coronavirus restrictions begin to be lifted.
We’re also seeing a lot of enquiries for Bali, which I imagine is down
to many a lockdown hour spent by customers imagining all of the
places they want to visit in 2020 and beyond.”
46 The Art of Luxury Issue 44 2020