Articles Tagged With "Caribbean"

Interval International, a prominent worldwide provider of vacation services and an operating segment of Interval Leisure Group (Nasdaq: IILG), today announced the affiliation of Cap Maison on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. Recognized with the Condé Nast Johansens 2010 Most Excellent Hotel Award (Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific) and featured in the Condé Nast Traveler Hot List for 2009, the spectacular property is located on the estate of a former sugar plantation on an ocean bluff above secluded Smugglers Cove Beach in Cap Estate.

March 23, 2010 in * All News, Caribbean, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Headlines, Interval International, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

With Brazil and Venezuela recording double-digit growth in interval sales in 2009 mainly due to their sales in the domestic market, Latin America showed signs of strength and continued to attract new players to its vacation ownership industry.

March 22, 2010 in * All News, Group RCI, Latin America, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News 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

Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE:WYN) has again been listed as one of FORTUNE Magazine’s Most Admired Companies for 2010.

For the third consecutive year, Wyndham Worldwide is a leader in their industry, scoring consistently on the Most Admired list in the hotels, casinos and resorts category. The Company, which is a little more than three years old, joins several other global organizations who were also named Most Admired in other categories, including Google, Johnson & Johnson, IBM and Honeywell International.

March 11, 2010 in * All News, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News, USA & Canada, Wyndham Vacation Ownership, Wyndham Worldwide by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Perspective Magazine, the leading monthly timeshare and fractional ownership business publication which has been in circulation since 2005 as a global edition, recently announced that it would create a series of regional titles to more closely concentrate specific issues relating to each marketplace around the world. The first of these publications to be launched is a North America edition.

February 25, 2010 in Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Headlines, Featured News Latin America, Featured News USA & Canada, Search Industry News By Company by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Dominican Republic and Canary Island resorts become part of elite group

Sol Meliá Vacation Club (SMVC), an international vacation membership club with locations in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America and Europe, has joined The Registry Collection®, the world’s largest luxury exchange program including luxury fractional, whole ownership, private residence club, high-end timeshare, villas and manors, luxury cruises, yachts and private jets. Sol Meliá Vacation Club at The Reserve at Palma Real and The Reserve at Paradisus Punta Cana, both in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, and Sol Meliá Vacation Club at Gran Meliá Palacio de Isora in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, now have the prestigious “by invitation only” affiliation with The Registry Collection.
“It’s an honor for us to have these three distinguished resorts meet the high standards of affiliation with The Registry Collection,” said Denis Ebrill, Sol Meliá Vacation Club’s Executive Vice President. “We also are very excited that its gives our Members access to high-end exchange experiences within an elite portfolio.

February 25, 2010 in * All News, Caribbean, Europe, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Sol Melia Vacation Club, The Registry Collection, 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, has received the 2010 Gold Crown Resort® awards by Group RCI, a worldwide leader in vacation exchanges with more than 3.5 million members globally, for all of its resorts in the Dominican Republic — The Reserve at Paradisus Palma Real, The Reserve at Paradisus Punta Cana, Paradisus Palma Real and Meliá Caribe Tropical.

February 15, 2010 in * All News, Caribbean, Europe, Group RCI, 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

Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (NYSE:WYN) today announced results for the three months and year ended December 31, 2009. Separately, the Company also announced an increase in its quarterly cash dividend and that it plans to resume its share repurchase program.

February 11, 2010 in * All News, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News, USA & Canada, Wyndham Worldwide by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

The Karma Royal Group announced today the development of Karma Bahamas, which will be another upscale Karma Resort and the company’s first resort property in the Caribbean.

Karma Royal Group has entered into an agreement with the principles of Mango Bay Bahamas, the owners of Little Harbour Island, for the property to be developed as a Karma Resort. Karma Royal will assume responsibility for the sales and management.

February 9, 2010 in * All News, Caribbean, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Headlines, Karma Royal Group, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Improved Rating Reflects Company’s Continued Progress Toward Achieving 100% Customer Satisfaction and “Zero Complaint” Performance

Builds on Recent Expansion of Member Offerings and Other Recent Industry Recognition for Quality and Service

The Better Business Bureau of Southeast Florida and the Caribbean (BBB) has raised Royal Holiday Club’s rating for reliability and service to “B+” – reflecting the significant progress the Company continues to make in enhancing its customer service operations and its members’ overall vacation experience.

February 4, 2010 in * All News, Caribbean, Search Industry News By Company, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Since the announcement that the shared ownership industry’s leading independent trade publication was launching a version dedicated to the North American (http://www.perspectivemagazine.com/na) marketplace, no less than 11 new companies have chosen the publication for anything from 3 month to 12 month marketing campaigns.

February 4, 2010 in * All News, 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

Further details about the 2010 TATOC conference “Working Together” have been announced. The event is being held at the Nottingham Belfry from Friday 26th March to Sunday 28th March, 2010.

January 18, 2010 in * All News, Europe, Search Industry News By Location, TATOC, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

With the best homes and availability in the destination club industry, the Club’s financial strength and stability, and attractive payment options, Quintess, LRW continues to welcome new Members. Now with 525+ Members, the Club’s growth in turn allows Quintess, LRW to add breadth and depth to the home portfolio and enhance its Members’ travel opportunities. This year alone, in addition to the new Saint Martin enclave, Quintess, LRW has opened a second home in La Quinta, California, and created its fourth and most recent enclave environment in Aspen, Colorado with the addition of two slope-side homes adjacent to, and receiving amenities through, The Ritz-Carlton Residence Club.

January 16, 2010 in * All News, Caribbean by Perspective Magazine: Timeshare & Fractional News & Reviews

Los Altos Situated Within Casa de Campo Resort in La Romana

Preferred Residences™, a hospitality branded membership and exchange program for luxury whole and shared ownership resorts offered by a subsidiary of Interval Leisure Group (Nasdaq: IILG), today announced that Los Altos Club in La Romana, Dominican Republic, has joined its exchange network. Through this affiliation, owners participating in the rental program at Los Altos resort become members of Los Altos Club and have access to the membership and exchange privileges of Preferred Residences.

January 15, 2010 in * All News, Caribbean, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Headlines, Preferred Residences, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Vacation Plans Now Include a Stocked Refrigerator Upon Arrival

Travelers booking a vacation suite at a Divi Resorts property in St. Maarten and Barbados through the property’s Web site can stock their room refrigerator at the same time. The resort has started an online grocery service that delivers the order just before guests arrive. The service, handy for families and for guests on the go, first launched at Divi Little Bay Beach Resort, followed by a January 1 debut at the company’s two Barbados properties: Divi Southwinds and Divi Heritage Beach. The service is readily accessible on the home page of each of the Divi resorts.

January 13, 2010 in * All News, Caribbean, Divi Resorts, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

Perspective Magazine North America, a new region specific version of the award winning global publication is busy converting its extensive online readership to print subscribers ahead of its first edition in February 2010.

January 13, 2010 in * All News, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

A number of positive trends that reinforce the appeal of the Caribbean market to both existing and potential vacation owners are being shared with delegates at the annual Caribbean Marketplace conference by Interval International, a leading global provider of vacation services.

January 13, 2010 in * All News, Caribbean, Interval International, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

“We are very pleased that a hotelier of Columbia Sussex’s stature recognizes the opportunities that shared ownership offers, and has entered the industry with such a luxurious product in St. Maarten,” said David Gilbert, executive vice president of resort sales and marketing for Interval International.

January 12, 2010 in * All News, Caribbean, Featured News Caribbean, Featured News Headlines, Interval International, Timeshare News by Perspective Magazine: Timeshare & Fractional News & Reviews

Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (NYSE:WYN) today announced that it will report fourth quarter and full year 2009 results Wednesday, February 10, 2010. Steve Holmes, Chairman and CEO and Tom Conforti, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will host a conference call with investors to discuss the results at 8:30am ET that morning.

January 7, 2010 in * All News, Asia, Australia, Caribbean, Search Industry News By Location, Timeshare News, USA & Canada, Wyndham Vacation Ownership, Wyndham Worldwide by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews

The world’s most read independent trade publication for the shared ownership industry has now launched a test version of its new online social media business forum at http://www.theperspectivemagazine.com/forum/

January 5, 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 Location, Timeshare News, USA & Canada by Perspective Magazine | Timeshare & Fractional Reviews