Do you have Bahamas timeshare weeks you want to sell or rent?

If so, you may benefit from this information. According to an article that appeared in The Freeport News, January 11, this month is bringing record numbers of visitors to the island of Grand Bahama. Logic says, the more the Bahamas develop into a highly desired tourist destination, the easier it could be to sell your Bahamas timeshare resale or use it as a Bahamas timeshare rental. And the Bahamian Ministry of Tourism is doing everything they can to move the Bahamas up the preferred vacation destination charts.

Tourism to Grand Bahama Island recently benefited because high winds in other parts of the Caribbean rerouted some cruise ships to Freeport Harbor. Yet much of the tourism Grand Bahama is enjoying is simply the result of people who have selected the Bahamas as their target destination.

The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism is working hard to improve the island’s desirability factor. According to the Executive Director of the Ministry, Kerry Fountain, (as quoted in The Freeport News) the plan is to, “Create your product, deliver on the experience in terms of service and the attitude, get your guests here affordably, and promote it.” He adds, “It has to happen in that order, but we have to keep our nose to the grindstone in order to get it done.”

The Ministry of Tourism anticipates being able to successfully weather even a tight US economic market because many US vacationers will still be taking trips, they will just be looking to travel closer to home. Additionally, the Ministry is working hard at recruiting and training better hospitality industry workers, unrolling programs in the high schools to promote careers in tourism. Efforts like this will help the long-term tourism market in the Bahamas as well as Bahamas timeshare resales and Bahamas timeshare rentals.

Creating immediate boosts to the tourism market in Grand Bahama are recently discounted airfares to Freeport and Nassau. US Airways and American Airlines are currently both offering special pricing on island airfares or vacation packages.

And now that things seem to be turning around for the Royal Oasis timeshare resort with plans to renovate and reopen, popular Bahamas tourist destinations like the International Bazaar may actually return to their former glory. Harcourt Developments Limited, the purchaser of the Royal Oasis timeshare, is expected to invest some $400 million dollars in their Bahamian resorts over the upcoming years.

To learn more about how to sell timeshare or rent timeshare you own in the Bahamas, visit Sell My Timeshare NOW. If you are interested in becoming a Bahamas timeshare resales owner, Sell My Timeshare NOW also offers an excellent inventory of vacation ownership properties.

The situation at Royal Oasis timeshare has been a complex topic we have tried to address on our blog since problems first began. In fact, some of the first posts on Sell My Timeshare NOW’s Timeshare Owners Blog were about Royal Oasis timeshares.

The Bahamas timeshare resort closed following the tumultuous hurricane season of 2004 and never reopened. Since the closing, there has been much speculation about whether the back-to-back hits the island took from hurricane Frances (considered to be one of the worst to hit the Bahamas in years) and later hurricane Jeanne were solely the cause of the resort’s downfall. Many have said that the timeshare resort was already so financially troubled, that the hurricane damage was simply the proverbial final straw.

Whatever the reason, when the Royal Oasis timeshare resort closed, jobs were lost, family incomes stretched to the brink, and the timeshare owners themselves left high and dry. They couldn’t use their timeshare condos; they couldn’t exchange them and vacation elsewhere, and they were still being required to pay the monthly mortgage payment (if there was still a debt owed), as well as the maintenance fees, on properties that essentially no longer existed.

To gain a better picture of what has happened in the past three and a half years concerning the Royal Oasis timeshares, I recommend you read these previous postings from the Timeshare Owners Blog:

• Important Information for Royal Oasis Timeshare Owners
• Do You Own Timeshare at Royal Oasis in the Bahamas?
• Royal Oasis Timeshare Resort: A Litany of Problems
• Uncertain News about Royal Oasis Timeshare Resort

As noted in the post, “Important Information for Royal Oasis Timeshare Owners,” the law offices of Phillips & Garcia, P.C., based in North Dartmouth, MA, are representing Royal Oasis timeshare owners. The case was certified by the Court on January 2 of this year to proceed as a Class Action lawsuit. Included in the action is anyone who purchased timeshare units at the Royal Oasis Golf Resort and Casino, the Royal Oasis Vacation Club and or The Vacation Club at Bahamia, whose timeshare had not yet expired when the facilities were closed in September 2004, and who do not request to be excluded from the class action suit by April 1, 2008.

The official court document states:
“IF YOU CHOOSE TO REMAIN A CLASS MEMBER, YOU DO NOT NEED TO DO ANYTHING AT THIS TIME. IF YOU DO NOTHING, YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE INCLUDED IN THE CLASS.”

To read the court document on this case in its entirety, click on this link: Royal Oasis Timeshares.

You may also wish to contact:

Phillips & Garcia, P.C.
Carlin Phillips, Esq.
13 Ventura Drive
N. Dartmouth, MA 02747
[email protected]

-OR-

Lee & Amtzis, P.L.
Eric Lee, Esq.
5550 Glades Road, Suite 401
Boca Raton, FL 33431

If you have additional information or insights about the Royal Oasis Timeshares, please share it with this blog by leaving a comment on this post.

Also, be sure you read the Timeshare Owners Blog tomorrow for more information about this year’s resort season in the Bahamas.

Sell My Timeshare NOW releases its End-of-Year 2007 Statistical Synopsis today. Because we are a privately held company, we do not publish quarterly earnings reports or an annual report to the stockholders.

However, we do want to keep the business world and the public apprised of the trends within our company, so three times a year we release a quarterly synopsis of business. At the end of the year, we also release an annual summary, which we make available on our website; by general distribution to the media; and as an attachment to a Sell My Timeshare NOW electronic press release distributed by PR Web.

You can download the four-page Sell My Timeshare NOW End of Year 2007 Statistical Synopsis here.

2007 proved to be another record-breaking year for Sell My Timeshare NOW. We set new highs for website traffic, number of unique visitors to our site, revenues and both the dollar amount and the quantity of offers to rent timeshare or to buy timeshare.

2008 will be an interesting year for the economy and the nation. America is facing one of the most unpredictable presidential elections in years. Consumers and businesses stand poised to march forward or push the panic button on their finances. Everyone waits to see what impact recent cuts by the Federal Reserve, the Wall Street rollercoaster, the slowing job market, and the dismal real estate market will have on their personal financial situation.

However, if 2008 follows the path of 2007, it will prove to be both a good year to sell timeshare and a good year to buy timeshare. Timeshares always attract people who are looking to reduce their vacation costs. Timeshare resales offer a way to create a hedge against inflation by locking in today’s vacation lodging costs. People who were considering buying new timeshare from a developer will be paying attention to the great values timeshare resellers can offer. All of which should spell relief for timeshare owners who want to sell timeshare and get out from under their annual fees and commitments as they pare down their household budgets.

Sell My Timeshare NOW is a timeshare advertising and timeshare marketing company; it is also a genuine win-win solution for people who want to buy timeshare and those who want to rent or sell timeshare.

J. W. “Bill” Marriott is the well-known president, CEO, and family heir of the Marriott International Corporation, which includes Marriott hotels, Marriott timeshare, and numerous related hospitality and management companies. Always a highly visible leader in the business world, Bill Marriott is recently making his voice heard in politics as the 2008 presidential election continues to heat up.

In a speech delivered on January 17, Marriott called for presidential candidates to, “move to a sober discussion of immigration reform.”

“We need to cool the rhetoric and work together to come up with a federal solution,” Marriott said, emphasizing the current problem employers have attempting to comply with a diversity of immigration laws that vary from state to state.

According to Marriott, “With expected growth, the hospitality industry alone will need an additional 300,000 workers in the next several years…We need immigrant workers in our economy and we need to create a workable verification system so that employers like us know that they’re hiring people who are authorized to work.”

In his speech, Bill Marriott called for the removal of barriers to global travel saying that visa and entry systems needed to be more efficient and customer-friendly or the US loses the opportunity to attract more visitors, stating that, “Bottom line, travel is trade.”

In this YouTube video, Bill Marriott talks about the need for immigration reform and other points related to the economy and the hotel and timeshare resorts industry.