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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

Obviously Pestana Vacation Club is doing something right. They’ve been in the business 25 years, building success upon success and accumulating thousands of satisfied owners during that time.

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

Manzano Golf Resort Part of a Trend of Attracting Oenophiles to Fractional Ownership

An interesting trend is brewing these days, linking the wine industry and the real estate trade in marvelous ways.

March 29, 2010 in Articles - Fractional Ownership, 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

Review of the 2010 Fractional Summit, 18-19 February, London
“Changing Times, Changing Markets”

It was almost standing room only at last month’s two-day 2010 Fractional Summit in London as speakers and
guests converged at the Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square, to predict future trends and debate about the state of one of property’s most interesting ownership models – fractionals.

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

It’s not too uncommon for consumers and even timeshare developers to assume that all timeshare resale companies are pretty much the same. But in today’s economic environment, it pays to know that they’re definitely not.

February 28, 2010 in Latest Articles, Magazine Articles by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Forget about “The Official Internet Provider of USA Swimming” – strategic alliances in the resort industry are all about synergistic fit.
By Matt McDaniel, editor

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

Diverse Programs Have the Singular Focus of Helping Disadvantaged Youth

The successful Petchey Group of companies (www.petchey.co.uk) has evolved over the past six decades, mainly due to the farsightedness, entrepreneurial flair and positive thinking of its founder, Jack Petchey. With offices in Ilford, Essex, the group currently encompasses property investment and development, timeshare management and The Jack Petchey Foundation, a separate registered charity to support youth. But while the Petchey empire is vast today, it comes from humble beginnings, and Petchey is a real “rags to riches” story.

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

On December 8, 2009 a group from Tenerife began a sponsored climb of Mount Kilimanjaro to raise much-needed funds for the building of Ingane Yami, a village for homeless children in the Durban area of South Africa, in particular for those orphaned by the AIDS epidemic.

February 27, 2010 in Latest Articles, Magazine Articles, Top Stories 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

Perspective Magazine Editor Matt McDaniel recently chatted with Darren Ettridge, Interval International’s vice president, resort sales and service for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The one-time co-workers talked about how Ettridge got into the timeshare industry, what’s happening at his company, the Timeshare Directive and his favourite football club (and you’ll likely not guess which it is).

February 25, 2010 in A-List Interviews, Latest Articles, Magazine Articles, Top Stories 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