Articles – Timeshare

Television Programming Helps Worldwide Timeshare Hypermarket Lead the Resale Market

Worldwide Timeshare Hypermarket, Europe’s leading timeshare resale company, is blazing a trail for televising programs about timeshare. First, the company partnered with TATOC, the Timeshare Association, to broadcast a 30-minute informational program that aired on the Travel Channel. Now, Worldwide Timeshare Hypermarket is creating 60-minute programs that focus on the offerings from particular timeshare resort developers. First up: Macdonald Resorts.

March 31, 2010 in Articles - Timeshare, Latest Articles, Magazine Articles, Top Stories by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

By Paul Mattimoe, President & CEO, Perspective International

Over the past couple of years I have sat at conferences and listened to many sessions about Social Media and Internet Marketing with speeches from marketing gurus trying to explain why the shared ownership industry should jump on board – but even now in 2010 we still have sessions such as “Social Media: Is it just Hype?” which shows that many people are just not understanding the importance of implementing these powerful tools, and so I thought I would share with you some statistics, guidelines of how to get involved and some defining results we have achieved by using internet marketing and social media, so we can all move forward faster as an industry.

March 30, 2010 in Articles - Fractional Ownership, Articles - Timeshare, Latest Articles, Magazine Articles, Top Stories by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

As we all know, the past year or two have been some of the most challenging our industry has seen in a very long time. And while not every company around the globe suffered from the credit crisis, scores did, and the ripple effect meant that many suppliers and other industryrelated companies paid the price as well.
By Matt McDaniel, editor

March 30, 2010 in Articles - Fractional Ownership, Articles - Timeshare, Latest Articles, Magazine Articles, Top Stories by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

South African Group Touts Successes, Including a Portfolio Valued More than R5.1 Billion

Club Leisure Group, a leader in vacation ownership, points and fractional sales, resort management and administration in South Africa, recently held its Annual Group Recognition Awards at the International Convention Centre in Durban, South Africa. More than 1,000 of their top achievers, back-office staff and other invited guests attended. The evening was a massive success, highlighting and confirming the successes experienced by Club Leisure Group’s sales and service delivery over the past year and hinting at even greater achievements to come.

March 29, 2010 in Articles - Timeshare, Latest Articles, Magazine Articles, Top Stories by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Hotel-Stays Program Works as an Incentive or Reward for Customers or Employees

The Connex Marketing Group, which has been providing incentive programs for the past 23 years, offers pan-European leadgeneration and sales-incentive programs that can be tailored to the needs of individual resort developers, regardless of how many or few countries they have operations in.

March 29, 2010 in Articles - Fractional Ownership, Articles - Timeshare, Latest Articles, Magazine Articles by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

In 2001, Intrawest introduced the Resort to Resort program, an exclusive exchange network for whole ownership and the emerging fractional and condo-hotel markets.

March 28, 2010 in Articles - Fractional Ownership, Articles - Timeshare, Latest Articles, Magazine Articles by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Nusbaum: VacationBetter.org Is All About – What Else? – Better Vacationing

VacationBetter.org is an educational website of the American Resort Development Association designed to reinforce the value proposition of vacation ownership in all its forms by touting the benefits of simply taking a vacation.

February 27, 2010 in Articles - Fractional Ownership, Articles - Timeshare, Latest Articles, Magazine Articles, Top Stories by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

The Vacation Ownership Calculator – a handheld device that calculates Future Vacation Cost and provides precise estimates of the cost of vacation ownership versus nightly hotel rentals – is a salesperson’s best friend and a valuable closing tool.

February 27, 2010 in Articles - Fractional Ownership, Articles - Timeshare, Latest Articles, Magazine Articles, Top Stories by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Remember when Radio Shack was the big “technology store” where you could get all of your VCR and Satellite TV accessories? Well, if you do, then you understand the divide between the “baby boom” generation and the world that is swallowing it.

February 27, 2010 in Articles - Fractional Ownership, Articles - Timeshare, Latest Articles, Magazine Articles, Top Stories by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Paul Stewart is a director of indirect tax services at KPMG in the UK and has been involved in advising on VAT in the vacation ownership sector for over 16 years. In such a colourful and interesting sector the last thing most subscribers will want to read about is tax! However, more than ever businesses are conscious of the need to manage tax risk whilst maximising the opportunity for savings. In this regard this article is not just aimed at those in-house people in finance and legal, but also at those involved in marketing.

February 26, 2010 in Articles - Fractional Ownership, Articles - Timeshare, Latest Articles, Magazine Articles by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Everyone says the economy is improving and that things are getting better. But what about the timeshare market? For an industry so dependent on consumer lending, the most important issues aren’t simply when travel will pick up and how much consumers are spending – it’s all about the paper.

February 26, 2010 in Articles - Fractional Ownership, Articles - Timeshare, Magazine Articles by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

John Spence, the entrepreneurial chairman and owner of Karma Royal Group, celebrates 25 years in the industry this year. Spence’s career spans a humble beginning to a 17-resort group with no debt today, and Paul Mattimoe reviews those 25 years.

February 24, 2010 in Articles - Fractional Ownership, Articles - Timeshare, Latest Articles, Magazine Articles, Top Stories by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Attendees from across Europe and around the world converge in London to attend the first FORUM Conference, which served as 2009’s main event for the European shared-ownership industry.
By Matt McDaniel, editor

February 12, 2010 in Articles - Convention Reviews, Articles - Fractional Ownership, Articles - Timeshare, Latest Articles, Magazine Articles, Top Stories by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Some startling statistics suggest you just might
By William J. Brown

Since being launched on June 29, 2007, Apple Inc.’s iPhone has continued to drive radical innovation and upheaval within the global wireless telecommunications industry.

February 11, 2010 in Articles - Fractional Ownership, Articles - Timeshare, Magazine Articles, Top Stories by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Bert Hurstfield left Original Resorts to focus his time and energy on growing the H10 Premium vacation club in the Caribbean. American-born Bert Hurstfield grew up in Vancouver, Canada. But he relocated to Mexico
in 1995, and today he calls Cancun, Mexico home. From his base there, he is busy producing vacation homes in Mexico and elsewhere for people throughout North America and Europe.

December 30, 2009 in Articles - Timeshare, Magazine Articles by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

George Sell explains how Turkey’s attractions and natural beauty put it in a strong position to go beyond a traditional reliance on domestic business and fullyexploit the international vacation ownership market.

December 25, 2009 in Articles - Timeshare, Magazine Articles, Top Stories by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

With practically every component of the recent economic downturn – lower consumer spending, tighter
credit markets, depressed real estate values – having a negative impact on the vacation ownership industry, it’s no surprise that sales fell off in 2008 after years of rapid growth.

December 11, 2009 in Articles - Timeshare, Magazine Articles by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

With increased consumer interest and more and more exciting products coming on line, 2009 has been the year of the fractional. However, writes Sarah Lee, in developing the perfect product there’s much fractional
developers can learn from timeshare.

Many fractional developers would concur that when marketing their product they try to cut any associations with timeshare, believing there to be vast differences between the products in terms of structure, quality, buyer profile, legal requirements and their inherent nature. But for those prepared to accept such linkages there is much fractional developers could learn from up to 40 years of timeshare history.

October 2, 2009 in Articles - Fractional Ownership, Articles - Timeshare, Magazine Articles by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Previously, when people in the shared-ownership industry talked about upscale timeshare developments, Orlando didn’t always come to mind. Sure, there were nice resorts with roomy, fully appointed villas – but not high-end resorts with impressively appointed units.

September 15, 2009 in Articles - Timeshare, Magazine Articles by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

by Marge Lennon

In considering the status of your resort property, do any of these design challenges sound familiar?

• Your resort or hotel rooms are “tired” or “dated” and in need of a total renovation.
• Your budget can cover only a small portion of what is actually required.
• Your refurbishments may need to be spread out over several years.
• You do not want the finished work to look like it was completed in stages.
• You need to replace only a single item – while retaining the majority of your furnishings.
• You are cautious about making that purchase from a local vendor.
• You need to refurbish a single room or area, but want it to blend with the rest of your unit.
• You have a new property and want ONE organization to guide you through the entire design and installation process, avoiding multiple “middle men” who add commissions during each step.

September 12, 2009 in Articles - Fractional Ownership, Articles - Timeshare, Magazine Articles by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews