The story
The agency was founded in 1972 by Patricia and Richard Cookson. In the early days, individually produced, hand-finished brochures were sent out with a note asking for them to be returned. During its first decade, the company added to its collection of Corfiot houses. In the 1980s, the company expanded its portfolio to offer villas on other Greek islands as well as in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and the Balearics.
By the 1990s, Morocco was added as a new destination. The Cooksons sold their interest in the company in 2004 to travel entrepreneur John Boyle and in 2007. CV Travel was acquired by specialist tour operator Kuoni Travel. Debbie Marshall was appointed managing director in 2004 and, under her management, CV Travel acquired the ski chalet operator, Ski Verbier, in 2005. Richard Cookson continued to work for CV in Corfu for a number of years.
In 2007, the company added the Caribbean as a destination, and in 2009, included properties in Great Britain.
In September 2015 DER Touristik Group acquired Kuoni Travel's tour-operator and sales activities including CV Villas.
In 2016 Croatia was added to the portfolio and in 2017 they launched Resort properties. In 2019 the company's new luxury collection ABOVE emerged, containing a selection of fully staffed properties.
Sri Lanka is the most recent destination to be added to their long haul portfolio, launched for travel in 2021.
From Wikipedia’s article on CV Villas, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4