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Yet another venue opens for Global Vacation International, due to the overwhelming success in Asia. This time its North Goa India.
Premier David Bartlett today officially opened the $21 million Wyndham Vacation Resorts Asia Pacific Seven Mile Beach calling the development another example of confidence in the Tasmanian economy.
“Tasmania was recently nominated by CommSec as the strongest economy in the nation. Tourism is part of our success story.
“This multi-million dollar investment by Wyndham resorts in Tasmania [...]
Jim Danz RRP and Bill Tsao, Managing Partners of Trident Business Management, have recently named two additional Advisory Partners to their team, joining other respected executives within the lodging and timeshare sectors of the leisure industry.
Newly selected Advisory Partners Frank A. Morrisroe and Gordon R. Bloeser have been chosen to provide strategic guidance and support [...]
Winter Park Construction (WPC), one of Central Florida’s largest and most respected general contractors has recently been selected to direct a $16.6 million refurbishment at the 1,450-acre, Kissimmee-based Holiday Inn Club Vacations at Orange Lake Resort as well as two of their other Holiday Inn Club Vacations resorts in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and Lake [...]
Announced as a not for profit event with any excess proceeds going to charity, the FORUM Conference team set about to arrange almost no promotion of the event for all but the last six weeks prior to the event itself, furthermore, delegate registration was not opened until just five weeks before which in itself created an amount of hype and interest.
Earlier today, Interval International hosted its Thirteenth Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive and Decorating Contest benefiting residents of the City of South Miami. More than 50 boxes filled with complete holiday meals were donated by employees of the Miami-based global vacation exchange company and distributed immediately following the contest. The Interval Resort and Financial Services department won first place for its rendition of this year’s theme – The Musical Turkey – with its "Rock Band Turkey Edition" entry.
World’s largest vacation exchange company celebrates employee wellness initiative with NBC’s ‘The Biggest Loser’ season four winner, Bill Germanakos
One of the main questions this year has been the rapid increase in positive media focus around fractional ownership products, in particular property related. There are however, many views on where this product sits in relation to a wider industry, is it a traditional property product, or part of the shared ownership industry – as both styles exist, how will this be translated to consumers, who have heard the term fractional ownership but as yet are widely uneducated about its benefits.
RCI, the global leader in vacation exchange and one of the Wyndham Worldwide family of companies (NYSE: WYN), today announced the launch of the RCI Shopping PerksSM program, a virtual shopping mall on RCI.com that will allow RCI subscribing members residing in the United States to browse hundreds of merchants and popular vendors and comparison [...]
ePercipio, the next generation software as a service (“SaaS”) provider of media-rich, multi-dimensional e-learning solutions, announced today the consummation of a multi-year agreement to provide its highly sophisticated e-learning platform and selected intellectual property content to Hilton Grand Vacations Company, LLC.
According to Shari Levitin, Chief Executive Officer of ePercipio, “Hilton Grand Vacations is a market [...]
“It was a straightforward decision” said Mr Terry Vose, MD of Moness Group Limited. “We already use Merlin Software for our current timeshare program. We needed a system that could handle the challenges of a mixed use resort including our hotel and new Points Club. The chosen software would need to work seamlessly with all these areas and Merlin is certainly capable of doing this for us – and much more. It is great that we can operate all our businesses on one platform”.
SPI Software , the vacation ownership industry’s technology leader, is pleased to announce that Meadow Lake Resort, a premiere golf and ski resort in Montana’s Flathead Valley, has selected SPI Orange System Enterprise software to manage their vacation ownership operations.
According to Kevin Holliday, vice president of Meadow Lake Development, “We chose SPI Orange for a [...]
Travel Advantage Network (TAN), one of the largest travel clubs in the United States with more than 85,000 clients, has chosen TimeShareWare as its enterprise technology platform. TAN sells packages of vacation weeks in as many as 1500 resorts throughout the world. They cited TimeShareWare’s superior technology as one of the main reasons they chose [...]
The NetJets Middle East Programme, provided by National Air Services (NAS), is celebrating its 10th anniversary as the region’s leading provider of executive jet ownership programmes by taking delivery of a new Falcon 2000LX - the first Falcon 2000LX to be operated commercially in the Middle East.
The NetJets Middle East Programme, a favourite of some [...]
Joins Sold-out Royal Club at Palm-Jumeirah and Royal Club at Downtown Dubai
Interval International, a leading global provider of vacation services and an operating segment of Interval Leisure Group (Nasdaq: IILG), today announced the affiliation of Royal Club at Bonnington Tower in Dubai. The 40-story, five-star Bonnington Tower is located in the heart of Jumeirah Lakes Towers, one of Dubai’s most prestigious residential and commercial communities.
Sports Village And Spa Resort Close To Costa Smeralda Joins Quality Exchange Network
Interval International, a leading global provider of vacation services and an operating segment of Interval Leisure Group (Nasdaq: IILG), today announced the affiliation to its vacation exchange network of Geovillage Sport and Wellness Resort.
Designed around the principles of sport and wellness, the [...]
Capital & City Developments has partnered with TimeShareWare to provide the technology platform and sales and marketing software for its West Sands Phuket property. TimeShareWare Professional, the industry leading software solution, will be used for lead management and sales and marketing for the resort’s 426 units.
The sophisticated TimeShareWare platform with its easy-to-use applications has been [...]
Fast response to changing trends is at the core of Club La Costa Resorts & Hotels’ ability to snatch success even from the jaws of the worst global recession to affect the holiday industry.
Recently, the company moved to close down four of its five off-site sales operations in the UK, due to the country’s continuing [...]
Global Hospitality Giant Will Open the Sheraton Puerto Rico Convention Center Hotel and Debut the W and St. Regis brands in the Next 12 Months
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) – the hotel industry’s most global company – today announces it will double its presence in Puerto Rico in the next year [...]
Owners Perspective Magazine’s print and online educational and research platform is revolutionizing traditional lead generation methods for developers by putting the consumer in the driving seat, spending anything from several minutes to several months, perhaps even years to educate themselves at their own pace in what they are looking for from a vacation home or vacation product, rather than being sold to. Then when the consumer chooses to contact the developer / advertiser that are selling a specific product, it is because that consumer is ready and wants to discuss a potential purchase at that development.
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Hi I am brand new to timesharing. I bought Worldmark resale, and would like to go to Hawaii is 2010. Now is 13 months...
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Mark Twain wrote:
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.Explore. Dream. Discover.”
At this time of year, when we all give pause to think [...]
Timeshare owners don’t take advantage of the fact that owning timeshare at the right location, (or exchanging timeshare for the right location) at the right time, can translate to a bargain deal on event accommodations. For example, Miami timeshare for the week of February 7, 2010 puts you in the right place at the right [...]
The South Florida Business Journal reports that research from Deloitte has found, “45 percent of U.S. consumers planned to take a leisure trip involving an overnight stay at a hotel, motel or timeshare from the beginning of Thanksgiving week through March.”
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In the state of Florida alone, AAA estimates that 2.1 million [...]
Yesterday marked the start of National Family Week in the United States. The event, organized by the Alliance for Children and Families, is dedicated to the building of strong families and this year coincides with Thanksgiving week. The association urges individuals, families, schools, corporations, communities and policymakers to get involved in activities and policies that [...]
The website InvestorWords.com gives us these definitions of the word, “investment”:
Definition 1In finance, the purchase of a financial product or other item of value with an expectation of favorable future returns. In general terms, investment means the use money in the hope of making more money.
Definition 2In business, the purchase by a producer of a [...]
In The Timeshare Authority blog yesterday, we shared the announcement of Sell My Timeshare NOW’s working partnership with InnSeason Resorts®. This teamwork relationship was established to help timeshare owners resell timeshare that no longer fits their lifestyle.
William E. “Billy” Curran, the Chief Executive Officer for InnSeason Resorts®, explains, “Life changes and a family’s vacation needs [...]
Sell My Timeshare NOW and InnSeason Resorts® have teamed up to provide timeshare resale solutions for timeshare owners who want to resell timeshare they no longer use. InnSeason Resorts® is the popular New England timeshare resort brand, known as the creators of The Northeast Experience®. They have seven outstanding timeshare resorts and more than 30,000 [...]
Yes, there are pet friendly timeshares and they certainly make vacationing or traveling easier and more enjoyable for pet lovers who hate to holiday without their favorite furry companions.
Although a pet friendly timeshare resale or timeshare rental is not right for all animals, (some pets don’t travel well no matter what you do) for pets [...]
People vacation for lots of different reasons … some want to rev up their adrenaline with new experiences. Others want to amp that energy all the way down, lounging by the pool with little more than a test pattern going through their brain. Either way, a timeshare vacation is a perfect solution.
Today’s timeshare resorts can [...]
It has been just one year since Holiday Inn Club Vacations timeshare launched its cobranded resorts though an alliance between IHG and Orange Lake Resorts. And despite coming into the timeshare market at one of the most challenging times in the history of the industry, Holiday Inn timeshares/Orange Lake Resorts are a remarkable success.
The unique [...]