Grand Pacific Resort Management (GPRM), a privately owned vacation ownership management company located in Carlsbad, CA has been awarded the contract to manage the Mountain Resort at Panorama in Panorama, BC, Canada.

Mountain Resort at Panorama is nestled in the Canadian Rockies within the Panorama Mountain Village complex.  Panorama is an area rich with rugged natural beauty. Surrounded by creeks, lakes, forests, and mountains, the resort offers seasonal outdoor activities ranging from on-site downhill and cross country skiing in the winter to golf, tennis, hiking and rafting in the summer.

According to GPRM Vice President – Operations Nigel Lobo, this management contract is Grand Pacific Resort Management’s entry into Canada.  “When we welcomed Mountain Retreat to our family of resorts last fall, our owners and guests were excited to enjoy northern California’s foothills of the Sierra Mountains. Now, with Mountain Resort at Panorama, we are an international management company and all of our owners can now explore the rugged and spectacular terrain of the Canadian Rockies as well.”

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Shell Vacations Hospitality is proud to announce the launch of its redesigned website today, completely overhauling the existing http://www.ShellHospitality.com to create a bright, interactive and user-friendly window allowing customers to book excellent deals quickly and easily.

The new website provides users with a comprehensive overview of the destinations, including special offers, featured resorts, “go green and save” and last minute deals. Guests will experience a visually stimulating aesthetic with panoramic destination graphics in a new wide-screen format. Other new features include:

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Trading Places International, a provider of management, exchange, and leisure services to vacation owners and an operating business of Interval Leisure Group (Nasdaq: IILG), today announced TPI Management-Canada Inc. (TPIMC), its British Columbia-based management subsidiary, has entered into agreements with 13 owners’ associations to provide management services for vacation ownership properties in Whistler, B.C., Canada. The contracts encompass a collection of scenic condominium units at resorts located either slope-side or in the heart of Whistler Village and represent more than 7,000 owners.

TPIMC will deliver a full spectrum of services, including reservations handled through its call center; resort operations such as front-desk check-in, housekeeping, and unit maintenance; financial assistance in the areas of planning, budgeting, and forecasting in concert with association boards; and communications between the various associations and their members.

“We look forward to working with the owners’ associations at these high-quality properties and to expanding our footprint into the very desirable Whistler market,” said RJ Jackson, president of Trading Places International. “We’re confident that our decades of experience in resort management will complement the associations’ ongoing initiatives to enhance owner enjoyment at these resorts.”

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Interval International, a prominent worldwide provider of vacation services and an operating business of Interval Leisure Group (Nasdaq: IILG), announced that Interval Travel has achieved Gold Excel status with Princess Cruises. This milestone places the agency among the top revenue producers in the U.S. and Canada in 2010.

“We’re proud to be among Princess Cruises’ elite partners and earn recognition for our cruise advisors’ outstanding sales performance,” said Raul Estrada, Interval’s senior vice president of global member services. “Our members enjoy cruising and we’re very pleased to offer them the high-quality travel experience for which Princess is renowned.”

“Princess Cruises is very pleased to acknowledge Interval Travel with this prestigious distinction and congratulate them for delivering such exceptional results,” said Mary Irene Jencen, Princess Cruises’ district sales manager, Miami to Fort Myers, Florida. “We look forward to continuing our long and mutually successful relationship.”

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Diamond Resorts International® Chairman and CEO addresses more than 5,000 attendees at International Pow Wow 2011

Chairman of the Board of the Corporation for Travel Promotion (CTP), Stephen J. Cloobeck, announced to more than 5,000 attendees at International Pow Wow 2011 in San Francisco that the U.S. marketing budget had reached a combined half billion dollars and that America was ready to compete for tourists with a global marketing strategy.

Stephen J. Cloobeck revealed that the CTP had a $200 million budget to promote the U.S., and when combined with the work of the individual convention and visitor bureaus, meant there was now a half billion dollars available to carry out strategic marketing initiatives for U.S. travel and tourism.

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Global hospitality and vacation ownership company commits to service excellence through branded hospitality experience

DIAMOND RESORTS INTERNATIONAL® (Diamond), a global leader in the hospitality and vacation ownership industry, strengthens its commitment to exceptional customer service by building upon the foundation of The Meaning of Yes® with the launch of a 30 minute brand video featuring an in depth conversation with Chairman and CEO, Stephen J. Cloobeck. The Meaning of Yes® is a service excellence platform that empowers Diamond team members to deliver a branded hospitality experience to every owner, member and guest worldwide, as the company continues to grow and expand globally.

Diamond Resorts International® thrives upon the service excellence platform set forth by Stephen J. Cloobeck. By responding to customer feedback and engaging in cost efficient and effective solutions, Mr. Cloobeck has successfully developed a hospitality product that is much more than vacation ownership, but guarantees a lifetime of memorable vacation experiences to all owners, members and guests. The Meaning of Yes® ensures that every guest receives the vacation they deserve. Diamond team members are currently being trained worldwide to work collectively to improve the guest experience and commit to providing relaxation… simplified.

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Online voting will end on April 29^th for timeshare and fractional industry professionals looking to assist in deciding the winners for the inaugural Perspective Magazine Awards Program.

Nearly 2,000 votes have already been cast online for nominees in the Perspective Magazine Awards program. However, timeshare and fractional industry professionals who have not yet cast their ballots only have until the end of this week to participate in the selection process.[membe]

April 29^th is the deadline for online voters to help choose between nearly 150 entries submitted for the awards program, with winners to be announced the evening of May 12^th, 2011 during a Gala dinner at the conclusion of global networking expo GNEX 2011.

Online voting is being conducted through the Perspective Magazine website at http://perspectivemagazine.com/awards, with voters asked to go to the website and follow the links for instructions on how to vote for their favorite individual or company. Once online voting is concluded, the votes will be added to the decisions of a select panel of industry experts in a process to decide the award winners.

“We are absolutely thrilled with the response from the industry so far during the voting process,” said Paul Mattimoe, president and CEO, Perspective Magazine. “With nominations coming in from around the world, we set up the website to make it as easy as possible for the industry to vote and they have exceeded our expectations. We are the only shared ownership industry awards program that includes this level of public involvement and look forward to expanding upon its success year on year.”

GNEX 2011 and the Perspective Magazine Awards will be held May 11^th-12^th, 2011 at the spectacular Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas and will take a comprehensive look at the industry from a global viewpoint. Industry associations from five continents have given their support to the event as attendees from the USA, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, South America, UK, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Russia, Thailand, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and Australia will be examining creative new ways to grow their businesses.

Workshops discussing international best practices and new strategies to gain and maintain customers will provide outstanding value for delegates. The expo will also incorporate an exhibitor hall, networking sessions, a welcome reception, open networking time and areas for individual business meetings in addition to the Perspective Magazine Awards Gala dinner.

For more information and to find out how you can attend GNEX 2011, please visit http://perspectivemagazine.com/gnex

Sponsors and supporters of GNEX 2011 include:

The Absolute World Group, Dial an Exchange, Resort Television, Yucatan Holidays, Citadel Trustees Limited, Connex, First American Title Insurance Company, ICE, Interval International, LeisureLink, Max Generation, RCI, First National Trustee Company, Lloydshare, Alternative Ownership Conference Asia Pacific (AOCAP), Australian Timeshare & Holiday Ownership Council (ATHOC), Canadian Resort Development Association (CRDA), Cooperative Association of Resort Exchangers (CARE), La Asociación Mexicana de Desarrolladores Turísticos (AMDETUR), Ragatz Fractional Interest Conference, Resort Development Organisation (RDO), Vacation Ownership Association of Southern Africa (VOASA), American Airlines, Avis Rent A Car and Christel House International as Charity of Choice.

About Perspective Magazine

Perspective Magazine publishes four regional brands: industry publications Perspective Magazine North America, Perspective Magazine Europe & Middle East, Perspective Magazine South Africa and Perspective Magazine Asia Pacific. Together, the industry magazines are the most read independent trade publications globally for the shared ownership industry and the company is a media sponsor of 30 major industry events around the world. The company’s consumer magazine, Owners Perspective Magazine, is the only independent consumer publication that specializes in promoting the benefits of buying shared ownership products to the general public.  Distribution is via a variety of high-profile consumer channels including, but not limited to, more than 150 first class airport lounges worldwide with over a dozen airlines such as British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Emirates, Singapore Airlines, American Airlines, United Airlines, and Delta as well as hundreds of luxury hotels, resorts, spas and golf clubs.

For more information, please visit http://perspectivemagazine.com/gnex or email Steve Luba, Director of Public Relations, at steveluba(at)perspectivemagazine.com. For information on advertising and editorial opportunities visit http://perspectivemagazine.com/advertise. [/member]

Rapid Business Growth Spurs Expansion

ResorTime.com (www.ResorTime.com), among the largest providers of nightly timeshare condo rentals in the country, has boosted its office space over 25 percent since the beginning of 2011.

The company has more than two million nights of available rentals in their inventory in the USA, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, and Thailand. Steady growth in the company’s rental volume is driving the office expansion to accommodate the burgeoning sales-marketing team.

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Private Vacation Club’s Award Winning “Storybook” Tells the Story

Club Intrawest, the private vacation club which recently received five finalist placements in the American Resort Development Association (ARDA) Annual Award Program has developed its own lexicon when it comes to talking about its community of Members and their shared ownership of beautifully crafted Vacation Homes across Canada, the United States and Mexico.

The organization’s Storybook received ARDA honors in the Brochure (8+ pages) Category.  The Storybook was created to put forth the message that although the organization has top flight resorts (two of which also received architecture and design finalist placement), there is more to Club Intrawest than bricks and mortar.  As the Storybook says “There’s a feeling too.  A sense of belonging, a genuine community of like-minded individuals connected by the Club experiences they will treasure forever.”

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Club Intrawest, a private vacation club with locations across Canada, the United States and Mexico has received five finalist placements in the American Resort Development Association (ARDA) Annual Award Program.   The ARDA Awards is a program that provides the “fair and equal evaluation of achievement levels within (the shared ownership) industry and to provide recognition to those who have achieved excellence.”

Club Intrawest’s achievements were selected as the “best of the best” from hundreds of entries.  Their accomplishments in the program were honored in the categories of Green Sustainable Programs Within a Company, Business to Business Brochure, Special Event, Resort Design and Landmark Resort. 

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