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Luxury Markets Symposium: One More Success
The Fourth Annual Luxury Markets Symposium – organized by Group RCI and sponsored by The Registry Collection, and aimed at finding new business opportunities – was held October 6 and 7 in Mexico City. Participants heard about trends and experiences they can take advantage... [Read more...]
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Regaining Sales Momentum In The Affluent Market
As 2010 quickly approaches, most of us are hopeful, if not optimistic, that the recession and the worst of its consequences are behind us and that the target market, the affluent consumer, will be in a financial position that allows them to increase their spending. As you focus... [Read more...]
What’s Next For Fractional Ownership? Going Green and Saving Green
By Lawrence Hefler Rising energy and maintenance costs. Increased environmental awareness. Concern over toxins in our indoor spaces. Fractional properties as part of the hospitality industry, by their very nature of transient guests, multiple owners, excess consumption, and housekeeping... [Read more...]
Robb & Stucky Interiors Completes Custom Renovations to Hotels & Resorts
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... [Read more...]
Group RCI Commissions Extensive Study to Measure Untapped Demand and Supply in the U.S. Resort Timeshare Industry
The world’s largest vacation exchange company continues legacy of innovation and leadership; shares key findings with its affiliates and business partners Global vacation ownership leader Group RCI, which is celebrating 35 years in the industry, has commissioned an in-depth... [Read more...]
Just in: Executive Quest Announces Its 2009 Salary Survey Results
Since it was launched nine years ago by industry expert Keith Trowbridge, Executive Quest’s Annual Salary Survey has become the yardstick for the timeshare, holiday and fractional ownership industries. Out now, the 2009 results make for interesting reading… Compiled from... [Read more...]
Finding That Perfect Property… Effortlessly
Quintessentially Estates work alongside the most prestigious estate agencies worldwide and retain strong relations within all aspects of the property industry – Ensuring a wide selection of commercial and residential properties to fit all criteria and they now have a section... [Read more...]
VOASA Conference, South Africa
Deon Viljeon, Director of Operations, Southern Sun & Chairman of VOASA The Vacation Ownership Association of Southern Africa (VOASA) held its first conference in South Africa on 24th May and 26th May 2009. Once known as the Time Share Institute of South Africa (TISA), this... [Read more...]
Developing A Hotel More Efficiently Is Now Possible
Develhotel.com which is the first online marketplace for hoteliers and real Estate developers went live on July 6th 2009. Under the current economic climate, it has becoming increasingly important to become more efficient in the way hotel chains, investors and real estate developers... [Read more...]
Selling To The Affluent & Wealthy: Proven Strategies For Good Times And Bad
By Dr. Stephen Kraus and Dr. Jim Taylor Turbulent markets are rarely as bad as the media portrays. And, as we have all learned the hard way, market upswings are often built on the weakest of foundations, another fact that the media is inclined to overlook (at least while the... [Read more...]
C.A.R.E. Launches Inventory Matching System At Conference
For as long as I can recall, C.A.R.E. members have expressed a desire for a bulletin board to communicate availability among its member companies. Now that C.A.R.E. is made up of over 160 member companies the concept of a having a bulletin board is finally becoming a reality. Mike... [Read more...]
Successful Luxury Fractional Marketing And Sales In The Current Economic Climate
By David M. Disick, Esq. This Paper briefly summarizes the following techniques in marketing and sales that can maximize success: 1. State-of-the-art web based programs 2. Public relations/Strategic branding alliances 3. International marketing 4. Local broker programs 5. Some... [Read more...]
Fractional Finance Finders
The March Group of Wells Fargo Advisors Aids Developers by Helping Prospective Owners Locate Purchasing Power Within Their Existing Assets By Matt McDaniel Nico March likes to use a medical analogy to explain a new service he offers for prospective fractional interest purchasers:... [Read more...]
First Resorts – Superior In Everything We Do
First Resorts is South Africa’s largest and leading resort Management Company, with a portfolio of close on 50 body corporates, share block companies and hybrid timeshare/residential complexes spread throughout the country as well as in Namibia and the United Kingdom. Originating... [Read more...]
A New School For Christel House
By Robin Mills For many years now I have been directly or indirectly involved, as have many others, in differing fund raising activities on behalf of Christel House, whether through attempting to put a reasonable round together in one or other of the Christel House Golf events... [Read more...]
The Right Time And The Right Solution For Timeshare
For timeshare resale and rental advertising and marketing leader Sell My Timeshare NOW, it usually comes down to the same question: “Does your website really attract buyers the way you claim it does?” The answer reverberates throughout the timeshare industry. Sell My Timeshare... [Read more...]
Sustainable Development Through Alternative Tourism
In the Mayan houses of the Yucatan Peninsula, a kanché is a germinator where seeds are planted in a tray raised above the ground so that they can grow safely in rich soil and out of harm´s way from animals or insects that might eat them. Kanché Asociación Civil (NGO) is a... [Read more...]
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Catching The Fractional Wave: A Legal Expert’s Perspective
Eric Gummers heads the hotel and leisure team at Howard Kennedy, international lawyers based in London. Eric is widely recognised as a leading legal expert in shared ownership and has established fractional and mixed use projects internationally including Brazil, Dubai, Morocco,... [Read more...]
An Incentive today – A Dream Come True Tomorrow
The Connex Marketing Group is leveraging its international presence to deliver sales promotion and motivation programmes, for companies in all sectors, throughout the UK & Europe. The programmes focus on holiday and leisure, and use emotive themes which will motivate every... [Read more...]
Developers Embrace Timeshares Only
In the early days of Timeshares Only, developers did not embrace the timeshare resale industry. All that has now changed as a new period of cooperation between developers and resales has begun. To understand why these relationships have grown in this positive direction, you have... [Read more...]
The Recession And The Recovery
By Steve Pentland, Generator Systems Anyone noticed how banks are suddenly a bit short on umbrellas when it starts raining? – Or more pointedly, want the ones back that they lent when it was sunny? Which kind of begs the question – “When will the sun come out again?”... [Read more...]
Robb & Stucky Expands Internationally To Hospitality & Resort Industries
by Marge Lennon No matter where they are located around the world, all hotels, timeshare and fractional resorts have one important thing in common: their interiors must contain quality furnishings that convey a genuine “Welcome!” feeling … the minute the guest opens the... [Read more...]
OTE Launches New Timeshare Website – www.gotimeshare.org
Organisation for Timeshare for Europe launched a new website earlier this year with the specific aim of countering negative publicity about timeshare on the internet. The objective is to achieve a high ranking on search engines such as Google or Yahoo so that when people search... [Read more...]
Sun-Powered Savings
U.S.-Based Solar Blue Offers Eco-Friendly Power Generation – And Pays to Put the Technology in Place By Matthew McDaniel Green is good. Everybody knows that. We’ve all heard so much about going green, reducing our carbon footprint and saving the Earth. We all agree it’s... [Read more...]
WWR – The New Wellness Revolution
Wellness Technologies help you take care of your own health through Clean air – Pure water –Natural nutrition – Good exercise – Quality sleep – Rest and relaxation – Natural energies. Many resorts and hotels have taken the step to integrate spa and gym facilities... [Read more...]
Selling More Timeshares and Fractionals: The Secret Is Offering A Better Loan
Low-interest, completely paperless loans make the vacation ownership decision much easier for consumers with excellent credit. There’s more to selling a timeshare or fractional than having a breathtaking ocean view, direct access to ski lifts, the promise of good weather or... [Read more...]
The Focus Is Changing….Are You?
FNTC launches IFG Leisure Services; we interview the management team and ask them to give us their view on how business is changing Q: First National Trustee Company (FNTC) is the largest specialist shared ownership trustee worldwide, we asked Lisa Migani, who’s in charge of... [Read more...]
35 Years Of Innovative Vacationing With Group RCI
Group RCI celebrates its 35th anniversary this year and, as the market leader in the vacation exchange business, it has a fantastic story to tell The Group RCI story is one of more than three decades of exciting innovation during which Group RCI has introduced a range of new... [Read more...]
Citadel Trustees Ltd. Grows From Strength To Strength In Europe And Looks To The Far East For Its Expansion
One of the main areas of discussion at the recent OTE conference in Madrid was how the shared leisure industry has changed over the last fifteen years, with a particular emphasis on the move away from the traditional timeshare models and products, towards the fractional high-end... [Read more...]
Who’s Who In Europe… Wellness Rejuvenation Rooms
Many resorts and hotels have taken the step to integrate spa and gym facilities to enhance their guests stay. Wellness Rejuvenation Rooms take these innovations one-step further. The difference between a spa or gym and a wellness rejuvenation room is that unlike the spa and gym... [Read more...]
Worldwide Timeshare Hypermarket – Growing Relationships Between Resale Companies & Developers
By Phil Watson Since our last appearance in Perspective Magazine we have built new relationships with even more developers and so felt that looking forward at 2009, it would be an opportune moment to touch upon some of the topics covered in our previous interview again. Developer... [Read more...]
Your Customer Counts – How Well Do We Know Them?
No matter what the industry, from carpet cleaning to hospitality, conventional wisdom is clear: the customer experience is ultimate. In the world of hospitality, we cater to our guests with utmost care. From booking to sales to the resort stay, we pay attention to their every... [Read more...]
Owners Look To Leffler & Heaney To Perform Quality And Timely Renovations
Snapshot of Leffler & Heaney, Inc. Founded: 1986 Owners: Sean Heaney & Tim Leffler Headquartered: Orlando, Florida Industries Serviced: Vacation Ownership, Hospitality, Apartments and Condominiums Geographic Coverage: National Employees: 30 Business: General contractors... [Read more...]
Change. – Adapt and Evolve; vs Reject and Expire?
Change is a strange thing sometimes isn’t it? You wake up one day and realise something is different, something is not as it used to be – a new building has gone up where there wasn’t one before, that air route you used to fly is no longer operating, your spouse or... [Read more...]
GE, Ready To Lend
The words “sub-prime” and “credit crunch” continue to worry everyone from economists to consumers across much of the Western world, but as the dust begins to settle on a year of economic upheaval GE Money Home Lending (GEMHL) reports that in the world of timeshare business... [Read more...]
Supplier Review – Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP
It was an early evening in 1977. Mike Clowdus, a two-year law firm associate, gazed from his office window, eastward toward Denver’s City Park, and thought about going for a run. Mike Clowdus That’s when the senior partner brushed through the doorway and tossed a copy of... [Read more...]
NorthCourse® Leisure Real Estate Advisory Services Releases 2008 Fractional Industry Report
New Release of Annual Study Shows Forecast for Explosive Growth Worldwide and Developer Need for Global Products and Services NorthCourse Leisure Real Estate Solutions released its annual Fractional Interest Report findings at the Spring 2008 ARDA convention, attracting widespread... [Read more...]
Get Some Sleep!
A look at the causes of Sleep Debt by Wellness Rejuvenation Rooms Many people underestimate the value of sleep. Like proper nutrition & exercise, sleep is vital to your health. Sleep is the time when the brain heals the body. If you can energize the brain and body during... [Read more...]
Resale Companies: Friend or Foe?
An interview with Phil Watson, Worldwide Timeshare Hypermarket Q. So that we can get a feel for both sides of the story regarding resale companies, can you tell us why some developers are so anti-resale’s? The largest concentration of developers who dislike the resale marketplace... [Read more...]
Crystal Enlightenment: Swarovski Lights Up The world of Interiors and Architecture
Timelessly modern, rich in heritage, Swarovski crystal has captured the mood of the moment to become an essential ingredient in contemporary design. Light-filled, prismatic and dramatic, STRASS® Swarovski® Crystal is now the first choice for international lighting designers,... [Read more...]
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A Slice Of The High Life
Despite constant media reminders that we’re experiencing a credit crunch and a recession is on its way, statistics prove that one sector of the leisure real estate industry seems to be showing a healthy resilience to the economic downturn – and that is fractional ownership.... [Read more...]
Worldwide Timeshare Hypermarket – Growing Relationships Between Resale Companies & Developers
By Phil Watson Since our last appearance in Perspective Magazine we have built new relationships with even more developers and so felt that looking forward at 2009, it would be an opportune moment to touch upon some of the topics covered in our previous interview again. Developer... [Read more...]
Hacienda Tres Ríos Resort, Spa and Nature Park on the Riviera Maya
Endless Luxury and True Sustainability Come Together with the Opening of the Hacienda Tres Ríos Resort, Spa and Nature Park on the Riviera Maya. After years of rigorous environmental studies and painstaking eco-friendly construction, Hacienda Tres Ríos resort, spa and nature... [Read more...]
