An exclusive interview with Jim Lewis, president of Disney Vacation Development, Inc., on Disney Vacation Club’s most far-reaching expansion to date and the company’s new relationship with exchange giant RCI. Interviewed by Matt McDaniel in February 2009.

Perspective
Thanks for taking the time to talk with us today. A lot has happened with Disney Vacation Club since the last time we spoke. Could you fill us in on the details of your latest projects?

Jim
Disney Vacation Club is celebrating the opening of three resort properties in Florida and our first West Coast resort in California in 2009.

Let me begin with Disney’s Animal Kingdom Villas. Members who call Disney’s Animal Kingdom Villas “home” live their very own true-life adventure in a setting inspired by the intrepid explorers and historic expeditions of 19th century Africa. Disney’s Animal Kingdom Villas encompasses two African-inspired buildings: Jambo House, which has two floors devoted to DVC accommodations, and Kidani Village, scheduled to open in fall 2009.

Kidani Village is planned to encompass an entirely new building of Disney Vacation Club villas, complete with its own pool, waterplay area, restaurant, merchandise shop, fitness center, expanded animal savanna and more. All of the accommodations, both in the existing Jambo House and in the new Kidani Village, blend home-like amenities with African-inspired details, and most offer sweeping savanna views.

Next is the Treehouse Villas at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa. The Treehouse Villas are scheduled to open in summer 2009, and will become the next room category offered at that resort. Nestled in natural forest glens just around the river bend from the bustling Downtown Disney area, the Treehouse Villas will
be the ultimate in glamorous camping or “glamping.”

Also at Walt Disney World is Bay Lake Tower at Disney’s Contemporary Resort. The 15-story Bay Lake Tower, scheduled to join the Disney Vacation Club family of properties in fall 2009, is designed to complement the fabled styling of the original building. Beyond mimicking the color palette and strong horizontal lines of its iconic predecessor, the tower’s crescent shape, hugging lush landscaping, planned recreation options and
a lakeside pool, promises to deliver some of the most dramatic views available anywhere at the Walt Disney World Resort. Some villas face scenic, undeveloped stretches of Bay Lake, while others offer spectacular views of the Magic Kingdom Park, located a short walk away.

At the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim is The Villas at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa. Scheduled to open in fall 2009, The Villas at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa will add 50 two-bedroom equivalent vacation villas to the 2.5-acre expansion of Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa and mark Disney Vacation Club’s first venture into California and the Disneyland Resort.

Most vacation villas will include kitchens, living and dining areas, and other home-like amenities while reflecting the same California Arts & Crafts architecture of the existing hotel, which immerses guests in a turn-ofthe-20th-century California experience. We also just broke ground on a 21-acre oceanfront property at the Ko Olina Resort & Marina on Oahu, Hawaii. It is scheduled to open in 2011 with 350 hotel rooms and 480 Disney Vacation Club timeshare villas.

Perspective
Disney Vacation Club has been very popular at the Walt Disney World Resort; do you see the same popularity occurring at Disneyland?

Jim
Like most Disney fans, our members have great affection for the original Disney vacation destination, and we’re thrilled that The Villas at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa will allow our members to call the Disneyland Resort “home” for the first time.

Perspective
It seems the most successful resorts have been at Disney parks; what is the plan to make the resort in Hawaii a success?

Jim
This is our first family, mixed-use destination resort outside of our theme parks. We’ve worked with local architects and cultural experts to design a resort that celebrates Hawaiian customs and traditions. We plan to have a magnificent feature pool with family-friendly tubes and water slides, a saltwater snorkel lagoon and custom-planned activities for kids – just to name a few things.

Perspective
Those resorts should translate into lots of new member families for Disney Vacation Club. Tell me about the new New York sales center.

Jim
Our second Disney’s Doorway to Dreams location will be at Roosevelt Field on Long Island and is scheduled to open this summer. It will be designed to create a fun and immersive experience that goes beyond featuring model accommodations and with plans that include an interactive family vacation discovery zone, comfortable discussion areas and a supervised children’s play area all within its approximately 6,900
square feet of retail space.

Perspective
Exchange is so important for timeshare owners today. Why the switch from Interval to RCI?

Jim
Each year Disney Vacation Club reviews the Member Getaways portfolio and the value each exchange has for members. We attempt to ensure that exchange opportunities provide members with diverse, unforgettable vacation experiences at popular destinations which offer great value to their membership.

Through our new relationship with RCI, members will have a broader range of resort experiences and length
of stay options. This new relationship provides our members with enhanced flexibility and more experiential
diversity than ever before.

Additionally, members will have more nightly exchanges in the World Passport Collection than have been
available in the past. Members will also have some more limited opportunities at 16 fractional resorts.

Perspective
What is it like working with RCI Group President and Chief Executive Officer Geoff Ballotti and his team?

Jim
It’s been a pleasure working with Geoff and his team. Group RCI has the management depth, technology
resources and global marketing infrastructure to align with Disney Vacation Club’s strategic growth plan. They have been attentive to our members and we are getting very positive feedback on RCI’s service.

The Tote Jackpot have tied up an incredible ‘win a lifetime of free holidays’ arrangement with Seasons Holidays to promote the sale of Totejackpot tickets on-course during the 2009 Cheltenham Festival! Tote customers who correctly select 6 winners on any day of the Festival will not only collect a cash prize likely to be worth more than £100,000, but will also win two weeks timeshare with Seasons Holidays, including all management fees for life! On offer is the chance to win one of 25 one week Seasons timeshare holiday homes which are also being given away during the Cheltenham Fesitval.

The Festival is Gloucestershire’s best known sporting event. Over £3m is offered in prize money over four dramatic days that bring together 230,000 Jump racing enthusiasts from all over the world to watch 26 extraordinary and competitive races. The second day features the quickest steeplechasers in the sport, running at full tilt over the two miles of the Seasons Holidays Queen Mother Champion Chase – 12 fences and two miles of breath taking speed and agility where one mistake is enough to lose the race. The race is the leading feature in a seven race card making for a top class day’s racing.

Seasons Holidays is one of Europe’s leading holiday ownership developers, with seven UK resorts and three in Europe. Membership of Seasons Holiday Club now stands at more than 23,000 British families, representing in excess of 70,000 people, for whom the company arranges holidays each year.
‘I am delighted that the Tote have chosen Seasons Holidays timeshare to promote sales of jackpot tickets. The Tote team are very excited about this year’s on-course offer and we are very pleased to be associated with the Tote during the Cheltenham Festival. We are confident that both organizations will enjoy increased sales as a result of this exciting offer’ Leslie McCann Group Marketing Director Seasons Holidays plc.

You can find further details of fabulous holidays and short breaks at www.seasonsholidays.com

Interval International, a leading global provider of vacation exchange services, and Preferred Residences™, the recently launched hospitality branded membership and exchange programme for luxury shared ownership resorts, are proud to support Fractional Summit 2009 as Gold Sponsors. The Summit, held in association with Fractional Life, takes place on 23rd and 24th April in London at the Hilton Metropole. 

“We’re very pleased to take on a sponsorship role at this important event that once again brings together so many significant players in the fractional ownership segment of the leisure industry,” said Darren Ettridge, Interval International’s Vice President Resort Sales and Services for Europe, Middle East, and Asia. “Our Preferred Residences programme offers developers of high-end properties tremendous sales, marketing, and business development support and we look forward to sharing these benefits with attendees.” 

Ettridge continued: “We are delighted that Interval and Preferred will play a full part in this two-day event because we expect fractional ownership will be a key product in the next few years.

In addition to the sales and marketing opportunities for developers, Preferred Residences offers owners “high-touch” exchange services within a network of exclusive accommodations in many of the world’s most desirable destinations. This is coupled with year-round leisure and lifestyle benefits tailored especially for sophisticated, affluent travellers. These include preferential pricing at participating Preferred Hotel Group affiliated properties worldwide, complimentary Prestige membership in Priority Pass™ airport VIP lounge program, personal concierge services accessible 24/7 online and via phone, and complimentary annual membership in Hertz #1 Club Gold®.
       
About Preferred Residences™
Preferred Residences™ is a hospitality branded membership and exchange programme for luxury fractional resorts, private residence clubs, and condominium-style hotels.  The programme gives developers the opportunity to promote their upscale vacation residences within a network of exclusive accommodations and to deliver high-quality vacation experiences to owners of exceptional real estate. Members have access to a rich menu of benefits and services designed to enhance a sophisticated lifestyle. Preferred Residences is an alliance between Interval International, a leader in vacation ownership for more than 30 years, and the Preferred Hotel Group, Inc. representing more than 700 of the world’s finest independently owned hotels in over 75 countries.

About Interval International
Interval International operates membership programmes for vacation owners and provides value-added services to its developer clients worldwide. Based in Miami, Florida, the company has been a pioneer and innovator in serving the vacation ownership market for more than 30 years. Today, Interval has a network of over 2,400 resorts in excess of 75 countries and offers its resort clients and nearly 2 million member families high-quality products and programs through 26 offices in 16 countries. Interval is an operating segment of Interval Leisure Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:IILG), a leading global provider of membership and leisure services to the vacation industry.

Wyndham Worldwide has again been listed as one of FORTUNE Magazine’s Most Admired Companies for 2009.

Wyndham Worldwide ranked second on the Most Admired list in the hotels, casinos and resorts category, and joins 15 other New Jersey-based companies who were also named Most Admired in other categories, including Johnson & Johnson, Prudential Financial, Merck and Honeywell International.

“Wyndham Worldwide is honored to join such world renowned and global leaders on the Most Admired list,” said Stephen P. Holmes, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “As a company, we look forward to celebrating many more of these accomplishments as we continue to drive success through exceptional customer service and strong operational and financial performance.”

To produce the listings, 15,000 top executives, directors and analysts were asked to rate all FORTUNE 1,000 companies in their own industry on eight criteria. A company’s score must rank in the top half of its industry survey to appear in the listing and only the best are listed as a Most Admired Company. The full list of companies will appear in this week’s edition of FORTUNE.

About Wyndham Worldwide Corporation
As one of the world’s largest hospitality companies, Wyndham Worldwide offers individual consumers and business–to–business customers a broad suite of hospitality products and services across various accommodation alternatives and price ranges through its premier portfolio of world–renowned brands. Wyndham Hotel Group encompasses more than 7,040 franchised hotels and approximately 592,900 hotel rooms worldwide. Group RCI offers its nearly 3.7 million members access to more than 73,000 vacation properties located in approximately 100 countries. Wyndham Vacation Ownership develops, markets and sells vacation ownership interests and provides consumer financing to owners through its network of over 150 vacation ownership resorts serving over 830,000 owners throughout North America, the Caribbean and the South Pacific. Wyndham Worldwide, headquartered in Parsippany, N.J., employs approximately 27,000 employees globally.
For more information about Wyndham Worldwide, please visit the Company’s web site at www.wyndhamworldwide.com.

A Feature-rich Site Designed for Both Industry Professionals and Discerning Consumers, FractionalCollection.com Offers the Industry’s Most Appealing Environment to Showcase Fractional Real Estate, Jets, Yachts, and Cars

With its launch today, The Fractional Collection creates the industry’s foremost online platform, enabling
industry professionals such as developers, contractors, hotel executives, luxury goods and services providers and others in the category to access a coveted demographic in an elegant, high-concept
environment.   Site features include a Showcase, where premium fractional real estate from around the globe is profiled; a Glossary, which educates high-end consumers and allows them to better navigate the world of fractionals; and a Marketplace, where the amenities of the luxury lifestyle are highlighted in an environment designed to initiate transactions. The website also features a companion blog which not only provides insights and information on the latest developments in fractional real estate, jets, yachts and cars, but
profiles the best and brightest in the industry. 

The Fractional Collection team, boasting over three decades of resort residence experience, integrated the latest Web 2.0 tools and lead generation technology in building the site, and put considerable effort into creating an elegant, easy-to-navigate design. “FractionalCollection.com has been designed from the ground up as a unique hybrid that not only is a consummate industry marketplace to advertise fractional assets, but is a nexus for our entire community, a place where consumers can learn, inquire and begin the acquisition
process,” said Mel Grant, President and CEO.  Indeed, FractionalCollection.com creates a multi-tiered experience where a developer can showcase his latest project, an architect can get an update on a hotel fractional residence endeavor, and a high-end consumer can read a blog post about the latest trend in celebrity chefs.

“Now, advertisers, industry professionals and luxury lifestyle aficionados have the ideal online environment to conduct commerce and share information on the best opportunities in the industry,” states Ron Wright, Vice President of Marketing.  For those new to the industry, Wright defines fractional real estate as a vacation home sold to several discerning individuals with a set of governing documents that spell out the rights and obligations of each of the owners. Buyers then own a deeded fraction of these upscale properties.
Similar luxury items, such as private jets, rare and exotic cars, and yachts, can also be fractionally sold and owned through the network facilitated by FractionalCollection.com.

“The present economy demands that we perform at the top of our game. The Fractional Collection delivers the tools to do just that – the ultimate resource for industry professionals to reach a discerning audience interested in their inventory,” observed Grant. The Fractional Collection site is intended to join these industry leaders and the select audience searching for these types of products and services in an unparalleled environment.

For more information on The Fractional Collection’s luxury offerings, visit FractionalCollection.com
 
About Mel Grant, Ron Wright and the Fractional Collection:
Mel Grant, President and CEO of The Fractional Collection, and Ron Wright, Vice President of Marketing, have launched a full-featured website and blog to serve as a marketing platform for industry professionals in the fractional luxury category, including upscale vacations homes, private jets, yachts and exotic cars. The site also serves as a searchable venue for upscale audiences seeking fractional ownership of these assets.

The Fractional Collection blog provides information, tips, and insights from experts and an in-house editorial team, as wells as features, interviews and guest blogs from industry luminaries. New content from the latest developments in the industry is posted regularly and member participation is encouraged.

New registrants receive The Fractional Collection newsletter, special offers, and preferred invitations.

Sell My Timeshare NOW, the global leader in the online advertising and marketing of timeshare resales and timeshare rentals, announces William Lee Goss as the company’s new President and Chief Operating Officer.

Lee Goss comes to the timeshare resales marketing company with an extensive background that includes having most recently been the President and COO for Eons, Inc., and prior to that, a co-investor in and the COO of Boston-based Yankee Group. Goss’ career includes extensive deal-making experience having directed growth equity and buy-out investments for the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based venture equity firm General Catalyst Partners, and having led global merger integration activities for Terra Lycos where the combined entities acquired more than thirty companies. Starting in the early 1990s as an analyst for American Airlines and reaching the level of Vice President, Goss grew up professionally in the travel and leisure industry.

Jason Tremblay, CEO and co-founder of Sell My Timeshare NOW, says, “We are extremely pleased to have Lee join our team. He brings a unique set of skills and expertise in managing businesses through rapid change and growth, which are critically important during this expansion phase of our company.”

In December 2008, Edison Venture Fund became Sell My Timeshare NOW’s sole institutional investor. Edison, with a history of commitment to high-growth, entrepreneurial technology companies, currently has $550 million under management. Edison’s $8.5 million injection of growth capital positions Sell My Timeshare NOW to rapidly expand its timeshare sales and advertising services.

Lee Goss describes his enthusiasm and vision for the company, saying, “I am truly honored to partner with Jason and the team at Sell My Timeshare NOW. The company has a great entrepreneurial spirit, and has built an extraordinary online marketplace connecting timeshare buyers, renters, and sellers in such a way that I believe it has the potential to transform the timeshare resale industry.”

Goss earned his MBA from Duke University and will be relocating his family to New Hampshire.

SellMyTimeshareNOW.com, the company’s flagship website, offers internet advertising and marketing solutions and success-based timeshare brokerage services for timeshare owners. With corporate headquarters in Dover, NH, the company also has offices in Orlando and Tampa, FL. The timeshare company has over 160 employees and was recognized in 2008 by Inc.com as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in America. To learn more about Sell My Timeshare NOW, visit the company’s website at http://www.sellmytimesharenow.com/.

Once again, the American Resort Developments Association’s Awards gala’s date is on the calendars at Brand Tango, a Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.-based marketing and advertising firm. “With 8 of our clients winning Silver ARDYs, we’re excited to see how they do in the competition for ARDY Gold,” says Joe Russoniello, president and co-founder.

Brand Tango’s work for Casa Dorada Vacation Club, The Levitin Group, GBS International, Stewart Vacation Ownership, Premier Cancun Vacations, Tres Rios Resort, Club Intrawest , and Royal Palm Vacations—as well as its own electronic newsletter—all received ARDA honors. “We’re grateful to these companies for entrusting us with their brand and image,” Russoniello says. “In these challenging times, we know that what matters is return on investment, and these projects delivered.”

In addition to the Advertising and Promotions awards, Larry Talley, Brand Tango’s vice president of application development, won in the Management and Administration category. Talley has created a proprietary Web-based software system that integrates all facets of a developers operation, including all lead and contact management, call centers, referral programs, reservations, maintenance fee and mortgage billing, as well as loyalty points programs. In 2008, his team has also designed several Web sites, including one for Casa Dorada Vacation Club that won ARDY Silver.

Brand Tango is a comprehensive marketing, design, and technology company with client Brand Tango is a comprehensive marketing, design, and technology company with clients in timeshare/real  estate/hospitality, consumer products and services, and financial services. Relying on their decades of combined expertise, its principals and staff help clients define and achieve sales goals and return-on-investment objectives by addressing integrated marketing needs in an efficient, unbiased, and knowledgeable manner with a solid, multi-faceted, results-oriented strategy.

Brand Tango specializes in new-customer kits, loyalty programs, member-retention materials, and annual reports for vacation ownership, hospitality and leisure clients, and for other consumer-products companies. Selected clients include Pacific Monarch Resorts, the Levitin Group, GBS International, OPTX 20/20, Premier Estate Properties, Royal Palm Vacations, Tres Rios Resort, Sunset Resorts, Premier Cancun Vacations, Grand Incentives, Karisma Hotels & Resorts, Exotic Travelers and Advantage Travel.

Fractional Life and Northcourse today announced they had commissioned their first detailed research study focusing on fractional property ownership in Europe.

The fractional ownership paper entitled “Fractional Focus: Europe” will take an insight into the growing trend towards fractional property ownership in Europe as developers and service providers seek to maximise sales and revenue opportunities in the currently challenging whole ownership marketplace.

The fractional property study will encompass:-
-An analysis of the current marketplace including market projections for the future.
-Why fractional offerings can be attractive to developers and consumers in the current economic vortex.
-The key factors and requirements associated with successful fractional ownership developments.
-Buyer demographics and trends.
-The online fractional consumer

Claude Attala, Global Managing Director, Northcourse said “This study will provide both current and new fractional property operators accurate and coherent information about the emerging European fractional property marketplace”.

Piers Brown, Founder, Fractional Life, http://www.fractionallife.com  said “I’ve seen the growth in operators entering the European fractional property industry over the last 12 months. ‘Fractional focus’ will go a very long way to quantify this, together with a spotlight on the fractional consumer as well as identifying current best practices within the marketplace.”

The research findings will be exclusively revealed at “Fractional Summit”, http://www.fractionalsummit.com  Europe’s fractional property trade conference, London, 23 – 24 April 2009

The research paper is the first of a regular published series of “Fractional Focus” updates that will provide detailed information on the changing fractional property marketplace.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) will be speaking during the Deutsche Bank 2009 Hospitality & Gaming Conference in New York on Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 at 11:50am Eastern time. Vasant Prabhu, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, will be speaking at the conference.

Audio will be provided through a live webcast via Starwood’s investor relations website at http://www.starwoodhotels.com/corporate/investor_relations.html. The webcast will remain on the website for 30 days following the conference.

About Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with approximately 940 properties in more than 100 countries and 155,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. Starwood(R) Hotels is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels and resorts with the following internationally renowned brands: St. Regis(R), The Luxury Collection(R), Sheraton(R), Westin(R), Four Points(R) by Sheraton, W(R), Le Meridien(R) and the recently announced AloftSM. Starwood Hotels also owns Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts. For more information, please visit www.starwoodhotels.com.

Citadel Trustees Ltd (Citadel) is pleased to announce that it has recently been granted Part IV permission by the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA), which means that, on behalf of its clients, it can now carry out certain regulated activities in the UK under the terms of the Financial Services & Markets Act 2000, thus enabling the company to expand its B2B services to a much wider client base.

Joy Pope, Director, commented “The authorisation process is long, detailed and expensive, involving a very rigorous investigative program with the FSA which, together with the consultancy process, has lasted well over 12 months, and Citadel is very proud to have been granted this permission.”

In more specific terms, the permission means that Citadel can now be involved in the establishment and management of unregulated collective investment schemes and therefore Citadel’s clients will be able to bring their products to market in a fraction of the time it would normally take.

Joy added “As our clients have expanded their field of business into new and more innovative projects, their scope of activity has begun to reach out into projects involving an element of investment, pooled income or shared profits for their clients. It is not commonly understood that the marketing and sale of such projects to UK purchasers, outside the FSA guidelines, is a criminal offence and has resulted in many successful and otherwise reputable projects being closed down overnight.

Now, using Citadel’s FSA authorisation, all such projects may be launched and sold to UK residents, through Independent Financial Advisors (IFAs), very quickly and without fear of impromptu closure by the authorities.”

Citadel Trustees Ltd. is a fully owned subsidiary of Hutchinson & Co Trust Company Ltd. and was formed in 2007 as a specialist Trustee with a principle focus on emerging products, in particular those requiring stakeholder and escrow activities as well as Hotel buy-to-let schemes and other leisure related investment products. For further information about Citadel and their range of services and activities, please contact Christopher Allen, Associate Director for Client Services and Business development, by email chrisallen@citadeltrustees.com or, call the company´s UK Head Office +44 (0) 1276 482015/16

DiamondHead Beach resort starts the New Year with Magna Computer Timeshare Software. In December 2007 DiamondHead Beach Resort became the most recent property in South West Florida to offer vacation ownership opportunities in the past 15 years and is feeling a very positive response from vacationers. Tours and sales have been steadily increasing each month despite the down turn in the economy. Now, over a year later, resort owners decided it was time to upgrade their tracking system; Excel spread sheets had become too cumbersome to use when tours and sales volume increase each month. For example; preventing guests from touring more than once is difficult to track from spreadsheets.

General Manager, Neil Hopgood, knew the importance of quality software for tracking their vacation ownership information. After comparing Timeshare Software, Magna Computer was the chosen product. Mr. Hopgood proclaimed that “with Magna you can slice and dice data in numerous ways. You know who toured when, which marketing source they came from, who toured again, who bought what, and from which salesperson.”

SunStream Hospitality Management Company is the parent company to the property. They also own and manage 5 other properties as condo hotels in the Naples / Ft. Myers areas; Bellasera, Park Shore and Port of the Islands in Naples and GullWing and Pointe Estero on Fort Myers Beach. Sunstream management has been dedicated to attention to detail and warm hospitality with a focus on quality in appearance, atmosphere and amenities.  Combined with Magna Timeshare Software and a set of core values that integrate through their properties, DiamondHead and SunStream’s newest venture looks like it will be a solid investment to their portfolio.

About Magna Timeshare Software
They say that a key to success is to surround yourself with the right people. With Magna Timeshare Software your resort will gain from the expertise and background of our staff. During a major change over it is even more important to have knowledgeable, experienced people around you; MAGNA knows Timeshare.

MAGNA Timeshare Software synchronizes all your resort activities, allowing each area (from telemarketing to tours to finance…) to work easily with each other—and gives you instant access to critical information for tight management. Easier management means you can be on top of situations, eliminating wasted effort and maximizing profits. We’re with you all the way, through installation, training & support. We offer a full range of services to make sure your transition over to MAGNA is smooth, without disrupting your current organization and operations.

About DiamondHead Resort
DiamondHead Resort is the only full-service all-suite resort on Fort Myers Beach. This Gulfside resort is full of amenities and exciting beach activities perfect for an escape from your busy life. Located on Fort Myers Beach, DiamondHead features casual to upscale waterfront dining, plus the opportunity to enjoy dinner from the best seat in the house – overlooking the Gulf from the privacy of your very own balcony. Water recreational options are endless, and you’re just steps away from all the activity at the heart of the island. Every room has a view and screened in porch.

For More Information About the Companies

MAGNA Computer  Timeshare Software
1465 S. Fort Harrison Ave #207
Clearwater, FL 33756
1-877-217-2072
1-407-352-2402
http://www.magnatimesharesoftware.com
Sales@magna.net
DiamondHead Resort
2000 Estero Boulevard •
Fort Myers Beach, Florida 33931 •
Reservations: 888-627-1595
Resort: 239-765-7654
http://www.diamondheadfl.com/

Wyndham Hotel Group today announced several leadership appointments and promotions as part of its ongoing effort to be the company of choice for franchisees and guests.

Jim Alderman has been appointed executive vice president of development, responsible for growing the company’s Wyndham Hotels and Resorts® flagship brand globally and its other brands outside of North America. He joined the company from Starwood Capital Group.

As chief performance officer, Daniel del Olmo will take the lead in setting the company’s strategy and optimizing its performance. In this role, he will be responsible for developing and overseeing the Hotel Group’s long–term growth plan. Del Olmo previously served the company as vice president of strategy and innovation.

Duane Elledge has been promoted to chief retention officer. He will work across disciplines to ensure that programs and initiatives are developed with the customer — franchisees and guests — in mind. Elledge will oversee the training and re–licensing functions. Elledge was previously the Hotel Group’s executive vice president of brand services.

The company’s revenue producing functions will be led by Ross Hosking. As executive vice president of global sales, he will oversee the sales department and hotel operations centers. Hosking joins the company from Starwood Hotels and Resorts.

Sean Worker has been promoted from senior vice president to executive vice president of international operations. He will continue to lead operations functions for Europe, the Middle East and Africa as well as the Asia Pacific region and have indirect responsibility for the communication, coordination and execution of all cross–functional initiatives in those geographic areas.

“A great company prepares for what it wants to be and gets there through thoughtful planning and great execution,” said Wyndham Hotel Group President and CEO Eric Danziger. “Our executive committee, of like hearts, different minds and laser–like focus, is committed to helping ensure that the Hotel Group is best of breed in the industry.”

Wyndham Hotel Group, one of three principal components of Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (NYSE: WYN), encompasses over 7,000 hotels and 592,000 rooms in 67 countries under the Wyndham®, Ramada®, Days Inn®, Super 8®, Wingate® by Wyndham, Baymont Inn & Suites®, Microtel Inns & Suites®, Hawthorn Suites®, Howard Johnson®, Travelodge®, Knights Inn® and AmeriHost Inn® brands. All hotels are owned individually and operated independently or by Wyndham Hotel Management. Wyndham Hotel Group is based in Parsippany, N.J. For additional information or to make a reservation, visit www.wyndhamworldwide.com.