The concierge is the “man” for VIP guests, the one who will cover all the customer’s needs, from their transportation and accommodation to the villa to their choice of entertainment as well as the arrangement of all issues that may arise during their trip. In short, he is the one who will satisfy even the most sophisticated desire of the client and will be paid dearly to do so.
This specialty started to become necessary in Mykonos from the beginning of 2000 when more and more affluent tourists with high demands started visiting it. THE Tolis Voutsas he “introduced” the concierge profession to the island, a profession that at that time was known and sought after in large markets such as London, New York and the famous tourist resorts of the French and Italian Riviera.
In the summer of 2000, with the help of a friend of his and a former crowned beauty pageant, Tolis Voutsas met his first clients, the Gaddafi family, who at that time had been in power for 30 years in oil-rich Libya. Money was not a problem especially for the Gaddafi sons who wanted someone by their side to regulate their daily schedule and meet their requirements, from providing a private chef and restaurant and club reservations to chartering helicopters and yachts for getaways to nearby destinations, depending on their moods.
Although he accompanies the Gaddafi sons from store to store while they spend without tomorrow, the Greek concierge is treated with ridicule and distrust by the then business establishment of Mykonos.
He does not give up and faithful to his plan creates Concierge Unique which quickly becomes one of the largest companies serving dignitaries in our country with important collaborations abroad that lead to Mykonos famous personalities from the field of entertainment such as Leonardo DiCaprio, in the summer of 2016 who that year had won the Oscar for the first male role for the movie Revenant. The American actor stays on the island for 96 hours and his travel schedule, from staying in a Greek businessman’s villa in Tours to the private table at the Nammos party to listen to his favorite Gipsy Kings, is taken care of by the Greek concierge company.
The feast ala Greek
Years have passed, times have changed and today in a particularly strange tourist season for Mykonos, the Greek concierge alongside the activities of his company is taking an alternative approach to entertaining guests that refers to an old Greek habit… to break dishes along with traditional dances.
He called it “Dancing with the Greeks”, it takes place at lunchtime in the restaurant Mamaluka in Mykonos Town and is basically aimed at cruise ship passengers and tourists staying in hotels, while it is also provided as an entertainment service in villas or wherever someone wants to have fun in a Greek way. The idea came about when the concierge realized that there was a significant gap in the activities of tourists who disembarked from cruise ships and wandered for hours in Mykonos.
This is a significant number that amounts to just under a million visitors a year. But these are day visitors who have almost zero contribution to the local economy. The implementation of some measures to put a limit on the number of cruise ships arriving in Mykonos as well as the number of passengers disembarking on the island is already in the works. For now, visitors can indulge in the traditional Greek way of entertainment and feel a little Greek on a beautiful island that in recent years has lost its identity.
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