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Following on from the industry-first success of Owners Perspective Magazine’s independent positioning of shared ownership products amongst general consumers through first class airport lounge distribution with more than a dozen of the world’s leading airlines, and in top hotels, resorts, golf clubs and spas, the specifically tailored Resort Developer Editions are helping on-site sales credibility, reducing new member cancellations and increasing the opportunities for upgrades, rentals and referrals.

May 21, 2010 in * All News, Africa, Asia, Australia, Caribbean, Europe, Featured News Africa, Featured News Asia, Featured News Australia, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Europe, Featured News Headlines, Featured News Latin America, Featured News Middle East, Featured News USA & Canada, Latin America, Middle East, Owners Perspective, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Since its inception in July 2008, Owners Perspective Magazine has established itself as the authority on buying timeshare, resort real estate and fractional ownership products, having been selected for distribution via the first class airport lounges of more than a dozen of the world’s leading airlines, luxury hotels, resorts, golf clubs and spas with a reach of over 50,000 highly targeted prospective buyers per edition.

May 18, 2010 in * All News, Africa, Asia, Australia, Caribbean, Europe, Featured News Africa, Featured News Asia, Featured News Australia, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Europe, Featured News Headlines, Featured News Latin America, Featured News Middle East, Featured News USA & Canada, Latin America, Middle East, Owners Perspective, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Sol Meliá Vacation Club (SMVC), an international vacation membership club with locations in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America and Europe, has been awarded the prestigious RCI Gold Grown Resort designation by RCI, the worldwide leader in vacation exchange, for its Gran Meliá Puerto Rico resort in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, minutes from the El Yunque rainforest.

May 13, 2010 in * All News, Caribbean, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Headlines, RCI, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Sol Melia Vacation Club, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Interval International, a prominent worldwide provider of vacation services and an operating segment of Interval Leisure Group (Nasdaq: IILG), today announced the addition of Cayena Golf Club in the Dominican Republic to its exchange network. Currently under construction, the vacation ownership resort will be located in Bavaro, Punta Cana, a popular tourism destination on the island’s east coast.

May 12, 2010 in * All News, Caribbean, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Headlines, Interval International, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Expedia® travelers have ranked The Cove On Ormond Beach among the world’s best hotels on this year’s Expedia Insiders’ Select™ list. The list formally recognizes individual hotels worldwide that consistently deliver excellent service, a great overall experience and a notable value. The full list represents only a small percentage of the world’s top hotels from the more than 110,000 hotel properties offered on Expedia.

May 12, 2010 in * All News, Caribbean, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Headlines, Featured News Latin America, Featured News USA & Canada, Latin America, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Interval International, working with its Caribbean member resorts, has made a record-breaking donation to the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association Education Foundation (CHTAEF). David Gilbert, executive vice president of resort sales and marketing for Interval International, presented a $45,000 check, the largest contribution in the foundation’s history, to CHTAEF representatives at the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Investment Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

May 10, 2010 in * All News, Caribbean, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Headlines, Interval International, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Interval International, a prominent worldwide provider of vacation services and an operating segment of Interval Leisure Group (Nasdaq: IILG), today announced the affiliation of Cap Maison on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. Recognized with the Condé Nast Johansens 2010 Most Excellent Hotel Award (Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific) and featured in the Condé Nast Traveler Hot List for 2009, the spectacular property is located on the estate of a former sugar plantation on an ocean bluff above secluded Smugglers Cove Beach in Cap Estate.

March 23, 2010 in * All News, Caribbean, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Headlines, Interval International, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

The leading trade publication for the shared ownership industry reaches another milestone as it takes the number one spot on Google.com for another powerful search term.

March 22, 2010 in * All News, Africa, Asia, Australia, Caribbean, Europe, Featured News Africa, Featured News Asia, Featured News Australia, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Europe, Featured News Headlines, Featured News Latin America, Featured News Middle East, Featured News USA & Canada, Latin America, Middle East, Perspective International Ltd, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Perspective Magazine, the leading monthly timeshare and fractional ownership business publication which has been in circulation since 2005 as a global edition, recently announced that it would create a series of regional titles to more closely concentrate specific issues relating to each marketplace around the world. The first of these publications to be launched is a North America edition.

February 25, 2010 in Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Headlines, Featured News Latin America, Featured News USA & Canada, Search Industry News By Company by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

The Karma Royal Group announced today the development of Karma Bahamas, which will be another upscale Karma Resort and the company’s first resort property in the Caribbean.

Karma Royal Group has entered into an agreement with the principles of Mango Bay Bahamas, the owners of Little Harbour Island, for the property to be developed as a Karma Resort. Karma Royal will assume responsibility for the sales and management.

February 9, 2010 in * All News, Caribbean, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Headlines, Karma Royal Group, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Los Altos Situated Within Casa de Campo Resort in La Romana

Preferred Residences™, a hospitality branded membership and exchange program for luxury whole and shared ownership resorts offered by a subsidiary of Interval Leisure Group (Nasdaq: IILG), today announced that Los Altos Club in La Romana, Dominican Republic, has joined its exchange network. Through this affiliation, owners participating in the rental program at Los Altos resort become members of Los Altos Club and have access to the membership and exchange privileges of Preferred Residences.

January 15, 2010 in * All News, Caribbean, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Headlines, Preferred Residences, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

“We are very pleased that a hotelier of Columbia Sussex’s stature recognizes the opportunities that shared ownership offers, and has entered the industry with such a luxurious product in St. Maarten,” said David Gilbert, executive vice president of resort sales and marketing for Interval International.

January 12, 2010 in * All News, Caribbean, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Headlines, Interval International, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine: Timeshare & Fractional News & Reviews

The world’s most read independent trade publication for the shared ownership industry has now launched a test version of its new online social media business forum at http://www.theperspectivemagazine.com/forum/

January 5, 2010 in * All News, Africa, Asia, Australia, Caribbean, Europe, Featured News Africa, Featured News Asia, Featured News Australia, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Europe, Featured News Headlines, Featured News Latin America, Featured News Middle East, Featured News USA & Canada, Latin America, Middle East, Perspective International Ltd, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Interval International, a leading global provider of vacation services and an operating segment of Interval Leisure Group (Nasdaq:IILG), today announced the addition of Gold Coast Aruba, to its vacation exchange network. The master-planned resort community will feature 270 whole ownership villas and townhouses in the island’s Malmok area. It is the only development of its kind in Aruba that offers purchasers Interval’s upgraded membership program, Interval Gold®.

December 16, 2009 in * All News, Caribbean, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Headlines, Headline, Interval International, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

The consumer magazine that focuses on shared ownership products has today launched its highly anticipated Fractional Property Guide at http://www.fractionalpropertyguide.com. This standalone website is the first of a suite of directories planned by Owners Perspective Magazine which burst onto the market in January 2009 and already reaches nearly 50,000 consumers per month through an innovative mix of online and print subscriptions and distribution via more than 140 first class and business class airport lounges around the world; including global deals with British Airways and selected main routes for Virgin Atlantic, Emirates Airlines, American Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines and many more. The publication is also available through a rapidly growing number of luxury hotels and resorts worldwide.

November 10, 2009 in * All News, Africa, Asia, Australia, Caribbean, Europe, Featured News Africa, Featured News Asia, Featured News Australia, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Europe, Featured News Headlines, Featured News Latin America, Featured News Middle East, Featured News USA & Canada, Headline, Latin America, Middle East, Perspective International Ltd, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine: Timeshare & Fractional News & Reviews

Hosted by Generator Systems & Perspective Magazine, this first of its kind event boasting more than 25 speakers from around the world, will tackle not only the difficulties being encountered by the timeshare and fractional ownership industries in these uncertain economic times, but also discuss possible solutions by breaking the mould of traditional conventions and allow the event to be audience driven and interactive; replacing long presentations with topical “forum” styled debates between delegates and expert panelists.

November 2, 2009 in * All News, Africa, Asia, Australia, Caribbean, Europe, Featured News Africa, Featured News Asia, Featured News Australia, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Europe, Featured News Headlines, Featured News Latin America, Featured News Middle East, Featured News USA & Canada, Generator Systems, Latin America, Middle East, Perspective International Ltd, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine: Timeshare & Fractional News & Reviews

Interval International, a leading global provider of vacation services and an operating segment of Interval Leisure Group (Nasdaq: IILG), announced the addition of Grand Laguna Beach in the Dominican Republic to its vacation exchange network. Currently under construction, the purpose-built, mixed-use resort is being developed by Inversiones Internacionales del Caribe, S.A., which is led by president Tim Neeb, a well-respected developer in Canada.

October 23, 2009 in * All News, Caribbean, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Headlines, Interval International, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Interval International, a leading global provider of vacation services, announced the promotion of Bryan Ten Broek to senior vice president of resort sales and business development. He reports to David Gilbert, executive vice president of resort sales and marketing.

October 20, 2009 in * All News, Caribbean, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Headlines, Featured News USA & Canada, Interval International, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Interval International, a leading global provider of vacation services, was a sponsor the Small Hotels Retreat held recently at Marriott’s Frenchman’s Reef in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. Approximately 225 delegates from 17 countries attended the three-day event that was organized by the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA).

October 8, 2009 in * All News, Caribbean, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Headlines, Interval International, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

The Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association Education Foundation (CHTAEF) and Interval International, a leading global provider of vacation services, presented college students Roderick Beazer and Koran Kong with the 2009 Interval International Scholarships. They were chosen by the CHTAEF selection committee as part of the review process of more than 90 applications from 18 Caribbean destinations.

September 11, 2009 in * All News, Caribbean, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Headlines, Interval International, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews