On April 12th 2014 I visited the Corfiot village of Arillas as part of the 50th anniversary celebration for the University of Ioannina, which turned out to be an interesting visit.

Arillas is a small settlement between Agios Stefanos and Agios Georgios, approximately 40 km from Corfu town. What impressed me most was seeing the solidarity, collegiality, companionship, trust and the mutual willingness to support each other, that is noticeable between its residents. They live by the principle that every individual’s effort that serves the shared goal will return to them manifold. In the same way, an action that harms the community will ultimately harm the individual as well.
This motto serves the improvement of the inhabitants’ lives as well as the touristic development of the region, which makes their home and workplace a positive role model as a holiday destination.

Arillas online google map showing all locations, Hotels, properties, Tavernas, bars etc. Best viewed in full-screen.

Our Beer Festival  for October 2016 from the 12th to the 16th with our Italian neighbors and more surprises!
The brewers from Italy who have signed up to participate in the 3rd annual CORFU BEER FESTIVAL 2016 so far, are: Birrificio Lambrate (Milan), Birrificio Rurale (Desio), Birra Del Borgo (Rieti) and Pogue Mahone Craft Beer (Brescia).

They are reputed and renowned brewers, which pioneer in the fields of beer production, know-how and innovation.

We are delighted that this year we will have the pleasure to share our experiences and expertise with breweries who share the same specificity and love for what we do.

Each brewery will work with Corfu Microbrewery to ensure that all visitors at this year's Beer Festival (12-16 of October) will be able to enjoy a range of different style beers and original flavors.

Cooperation between Corfu Microbrewery and Italians brewers will be close as we allocate our guests brewers raw materials and equipment to enable them to produce their own unique beer in Corfu.

 Our vision is to extend the summer tourist season in Corfu in October month, wanting thus to contribute to local economic empowerment of our island.
We would like to provide also a unique opportunity for the participating countries so as to connect and unite with each other.

The results of our research on the tourism of Arillas were made public on Sunday 20 January. A lot of people came to the presentation and left after a couple of hours much wiser!
To take it from the start, a couple of years ago the Arillas business Association set up a questionnaire to measure how satisfied our visitors were, what they liked and disliked most and other such things. The first year we got 300 replies, the second year (2012) we got back 600 replies. Looking for someone to help us analyse the results of the survey we came across Dr Kostas Tsoumanis.