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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) announced today that it will release the Company’s first quarter financial results prior to market open on Thursday, April 29, 2010, followed by a conference call at 10:30am EDT. The conference call will include a brief discussion of the quarter followed by questions and answers. The call will be moderated by Jason Koval, Vice President, Investor Relations.

March 31, 2010 in * All News, Africa, Asia, Australia, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Macdonald Resorts based in Scotland is recognised as one of Europe’s leading resort developers with nine resorts located across the UK and Spain, which complement the Macdonald Group’s 43 four and five star hotels in the UK. With over 25,000 members, Macdonald Resorts has been in operation for over 20 years and is one of the UK’s leading hospitality brands.

March 26, 2010 in * All News, Europe, Featured News Europe, Featured News Headlines, Merlin Software, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News 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, received a total of four award nominations at the 2010 American Resort Development Association (ARDA) Annual Convention and Awards Reception in Las Vegas in the categories of Sales VLO/QAO, Owner/Customer Relations Manager, electronic newsletter and Web Site. Bringing the gold home for SMVC this year was Wanda Hernandez, Member Services Training Manager.

March 25, 2010 in * All News, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Sol Melia Vacation Club, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Christel House International and Perspective International are pleased to announce that Perspective Magazine has been named the official media sponsor of the 2010 RCI Christel House Open, a unique international charity golf tournament with a global scale. This year’s event will see golfers compete in charity tournaments hosted on courses on five continents. On and around June 7, 2010, approximately 2,000 golfers are expected to participate on courses around the world.

March 25, 2010 in * All News, Africa, Asia, Christel House International, Europe, Featured News Africa, Featured News Asia, Featured News Europe, Featured News Headlines, Featured News USA & Canada, Perspective International Ltd, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

As part on an ongoing campaign to help stamp out fraudulent practices targeted at timeshare owners, RDO (Resort Development Organisation), the trade body for timeshare and fractional ownership, is calling for consumers to come forward with their complaints.

March 25, 2010 in * All News, Europe, RDO, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

For many years now European resale company’s mode of operation has been centred round obtaining exorbitant up front registrations from timeshare owners for registering their weeks and then doing nothing to sell them on. The type of companies that both TATOC and RDO have been fighting to close down for many years. With this in mind Worldwide Timeshare Hypermarket one of Europe’s leading resale companies, researched the various auction web sites that are in use and is proud to launch “Timeshare Shopper” at the TATOC conference this weekend being held at the Belfry Hotel in Nottingham.

March 25, 2010 in * All News, Europe, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News, Worldwide Timeshare Hypermarket by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Merlin Software is delighted to announce that its new benefit for TATOC’s resort members and affiliates will be launched this weekend at the TATOC Conference 26th-28th March at the Belfry in Nottingham, UK.

March 24, 2010 in * All News, Europe, Merlin Software, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, TATOC, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

RCI today announced that SkiStar, one of the Nordic region’s strongest hospitality brands, has affiliated two of its resorts – SkiStar Vacation Club Fjällhotell and SkiStar Vacation Club Snötorget – with RCI, the worldwide leader in vacation exchange.

March 23, 2010 in * All News, Europe, Featured News Europe, Featured News Headlines, Group RCI, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

World’s largest vacation exchange company continues to break new ground on innovations that enhance the member experience

March 23, 2010 in * All News, Africa, Asia, Australia, Caribbean, Europe, Group RCI, Latin America, Middle East, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

RCI EMEAI will celebrate some of the longest-standing business relationships within the vacation exchange industry at the American Resort Development Association (ARDA) 2010 Convention and Exposition in Las Vegas, Nevada.

March 23, 2010 in * All News, Europe, Featured News Europe, Featured News Headlines, Group RCI, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

The Registry Collection program, the world’s largest luxury exchange program, one of the Wyndham Worldwide family of brands (NYSE: WYN) and one of the three worldwide exchange programs under the RCI umbrella, today announced that it welcomed 24 new resort destination properties in 2009, bringing its total number of properties available for exchange or under development to 175 in 29 countries.

March 23, 2010 in * All News, Africa, Europe, Group RCI, Latin America, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Five resorts in Mexico, the Caribbean and the Pacific Coast join the world’s largest vacation exchange network

RCI, the global leader in vacation exchange and Fiesta Hotel Group, one of the leading hotel chains in Spain, today announced a new affiliation agreement that welcomes five properties from the Grand Palladium Travel Club to RCI’s global network.

March 23, 2010 in * All News, Caribbean, Europe, Group RCI, Latin America, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Christel House International today announced that RCI, the global leader in vacation exchange and one of the Wyndham Worldwide family of companies (NYSE: WYN), will return for the fourth year as the Title Sponsor of the RCI® Christel House Open® International Charity Golf Tournament.

March 23, 2010 in * All News, Christel House International, Europe, Group RCI, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

RCI, the global leader in vacation exchange and one of the Wyndham Worldwide family of brands (NYSE: WYN), announced its most diverse region – Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India – continues to enrich its resort portfolio with 40 new resort affiliations in 2009 and to date in 2010. The new resort affiliations added more than 32,000 members and offer a high quality and diverse range of new vacation destinations to RCI’s global network of over 4,000 affiliated resorts.

March 22, 2010 in * All News, Africa, Asia, Europe, Group RCI, Middle East, 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

The Registry Collection® exchange programme, the world’s largest luxury exchange network, was honoured to receive the Fractional Life 2010 Services To The Industry Award at the Fractional Life Summit on 19th February.

March 16, 2010 in * All News, Europe, Featured News Europe, Featured News Headlines, Fractional Life, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, The Registry Collection, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

World’s largest vacation exchange company continues to grow stronger, offering more
value to affiliates

Demonstrating that vacation exchange remains a bright spot in the travel industry, RCI, the global leader in vacation exchange and one of the Wyndham Worldwide family of brands (NYSE: WYN), announced that it added more than 100 new resorts, including 10 properties under development, to the world’s largest vacation exchange network.

March 16, 2010 in * All News, Africa, Asia, Australia, Caribbean, Europe, Group RCI, Latin America, Middle East, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Leading fractional ownership super-yacht company YachtPlus last week launched the second yacht of its four yacht fleet in La Spezia, Italy. Christened Ocean Pearl, this stunning 41 metre yacht, identical to its Norman Foster designed sister yacht Ocean Emerald, will operate a series of cruises throughout the Mediterranean during the summer of 2010 and the Caribbean in the winter of 2011.

March 16, 2010 in * All News, Europe, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Merlin Software for Vacation Ownership is set to celebrate its tenth anniversary at the upcoming American Resort Development Association (ARDA) Convention taking place March 14th-18th at the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

March 11, 2010 in * All News, Europe, Merlin Software, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

PerspectiveForums.com reports more than 2,000 friend requests served in first two weeks.

Perspective Magazine, the shared ownership industry’s leading trade publication recently launched the first standalone social networking platform dedicated to the timeshare and fractional ownership industry, combining the most popular features of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn all on one website.

March 4, 2010 in * All News, Africa, Asia, Australia, Caribbean, Europe, 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