In this Voices of Kinship interview, Kelly Tolliday of Travel Kinship talks to Nefeli Oikonomidi, founder of Handy Tours, a boutique luxury DMC in Greece. Nefeli explains why the real difference in Greece is not the beaches or the sunshine but the Greek way of living, and how her team builds every journey around the individual traveller rather than a ready made itinerary.

What you will learn

• How Nefeli started Handy Tours after helping guests from abroad with dinner reservations and boat days, and what their thank you messages taught her

• Why she calls her work the "haute couture of travelling", and why a boutique team makes truly tailor made travel possible

• Her picks for every season: Metsovo in winter, car free Hydra in spring, Corfu in summer and Santorini in autumn

• Why Santorini in April or May feels like a different island from Santorini in August

• The Peloponnese and Crete as her answers when clients ask for somewhere less known

• Why fast replies and strong after service matter so much to advisors working across time zones

• Her ambition for Handy Tours to be the most trusted DMC in Greece, not the biggest

Who is speaking

Nefeli Oikonomidi was born and raised in Athens and founded Handy Tours to share a more personal Greece with international travellers. She is interviewed by Kelly Tolliday, Managing Director of Travel Kinship.

About Handy Tours

Handy Tours is a boutique luxury DMC based in Greece, creating fully tailor made journeys across the mainland and the islands. Travel Kinship represents Handy Tours to travel advisors. Discover Handy Tours or contact Travel Kinship for an introduction.