Wyndham's WorldMark Resort Denarau Island Timeshare

Wyndham Vacation Resorts Asia Pacific, (Wyndham timeshare) has announced the start of construction on Stage 3 of WorldMark Resort Denarau Island. When completed, this Fiji timeshare resort is expected to be one of the largest tourism developments in the Fijian islands.

The renovation plans include construction of 63 amazing timeshare villas, both one and two-bedroom units, as well as 3 and 4-bedroom presidential villas that will feature private dip pools overlooking the ocean. (Are you beginning to envision yourself vacationing there?)

Architect Guymer Bailey along with the Fijian firm, Architects Pacific, will handle the new design with much of the support work for construction, furnishings and fixtures to be provided by local Fijian consultants, subcontractors and suppliers. Michael Fairfax, Managing Director of PBS, noted that their company is very excited to get started on the project, which will likely be the largest building construction job in Fiji and will employ hundreds of workers and subcontractors in a variety of trades over the course of the next 18 months.

Wyndham Timeshare

Current Wyndham timeshare owners and guests will be pleased to know that the construction on the expansion will be localized to the new project area, with minimal impact on the serenity of upcoming Wyndham Fiji timeshare vacations at WorldMark Resort Denarau Island.

In keeping with Wyndham Green, Wyndham Worldwide’s global sustainability initiative, environmentally sustainable features will be incorporated into the redevelopment. Such initiatives include the use of local timbers, natural lighting when possible along with energy saving lighting, water saving devices, and cross-flow ventilation plus energy efficient cooling systems.

Frankly, much of the messaging about where the timeshare industry stands and where it’s going is confusing. And because it is often difficult for those who are part of the industry to discern, it can be truly a puzzle to consumers.

Here are a few relevant facts that should be insightful to timeshare buyers, renters, sellers, and current timeshare owners in trying to get a handle on the true popularity of timeshares and the health of the timeshare product:

• The timeshare industry registered $6.4 billion in total sales volume for 2010, which represents a 1.6 percent increase over sales in 2009. This number reflects only new sales of timeshare and does not include the multi-billion dollars in timeshare resales and timeshare rentals.
• Timeshare resort occupancy rates were 79 percent in 2010; an interesting contrast to hotel occupancy rates, which rose from the previous year, but still only reached 58 percent.
• 329,200 timeshare intervals sold last year at an average price of $19,300. Again these figures reflect only at the sales of timeshare from developers, not timeshare resales that happened privately, though a timeshare broker, or through a timeshare resale advertising company.
• Beach timeshares remain the most popular and the most prevalent. Timeshare resorts at golf or theme park destinations tend to be the largest in size and island destination resorts are typically the most expensive and have the highest occupancy percentages.
• In the US, there are approximately 1,548 timeshare resorts. Differences in numbers reported for this often stem from confusion over how  resorts with many phases of construction counts their properties.
• 8.1 million timeshare intervals are owned in the US alone.

With many naysayers ready to condemn the industry, reporting of its impending death and downfall, numbers like these present quite a different (and eye-opening) story.

Before you make any decisions about timeshare, get the facts. Be an informed consumer so that if you chose to rent or buy a timeshare, you wind up with a vacation product you enjoy, fully utilize, and that comes with only good surprises.

Interval International timeshare exchange recently announced expanded and extended services for King’s Creek Plantation LLC. (Additional info here: Kings Creek Plantation Timeshare Owners Gain Customize Services with Interval International).

Kevin Jones, cofounder and president of King’s Creek Plantation LLC, says, “Maintaining our strong partnership with Interval supports our customer-first culture, while opening the door for new products with more options. We are excited about our continued relationship and the many opportunities it will bring in the near future.”

Along with news of the extended relations with King’s Creek Plantation, the announcement included important updates about the new King’s Creek points-based vacation club, known as Club Explore.

Interval International is providing reservation services and special opportunities for Club Explore members. Timeshare owner / members who enroll in Club Explore expand their vacation options by being able to convert their timeshare points into club currency. They can then utilize the currency for vacationing at King’s Creek properties or for timeshare exchange within the vast Interval International global network of resorts.

In addition to timeshare exchange, Club Explore Points mean:
·         Members can choose to upgrade timeshare locations, unit size or season
·         As part of Interval Gold®, members can use ShortStay ExchangeSM to take long weekends or mini-vacations
·         Members can opt to exchange for (or purchase) great deals on cruise, golf and spa vacations
·         Access to personal concierge service available 24/7 via phone and e-mail
·         And that members receive complimentary Hertz #1 Gold® membership, as well as special offers on hotels, retail shopping, and restaurants

The spacious timeshare units, cottages, condos, (King’s Creek Plantation cottages and townhomes) and estate homes (King’s Creek Plantation Estates) at King’s Creek Plantation, with their convenient location near the attractions of Williamsburg are great reasons to be a King’s Creek Plantation timeshare owner. Now Interval International has added even more!

$284,876,202 in qualified offers to timeshare owners in the first three quarters of 2011!

At Sell My Timeshare NOW and Timeshare Broker Services, we are excited to announce our third quarter sales results.

Between January 1, 2011 and September 30, 2011, Sell My Timeshare NOW and Timeshare Broker Services, as part of Vacation Hotdeal Companies, Inc., presented $284,876,202 in qualified offers to timeshare owners who contacted us seeking to sell or rent timeshare they currently own.

These qualified offers include:

• $225,000,000 in offers to buy a timeshare, and
• $60,000,000 in timeshare rental offers
• 3rd Q sales results were up 24 percent over the same quarter in 2010 at Sell My Timeshare NOW for timeshare sales and rentals
• 3rd Q sales results were up 88 percent over the same quarter in 2010 at Timeshare Broker Services for timeshare sales and rentals

Yes, that right… 88% increase in sales for Quarter3 2011 as compared to Quarter 3 2010!

And you never have to just take our word for our sales and rental offers … you can see them for yourself.

Go to http://www.sellmytimesharenow.com/owners/index/content/buyeroffers/

Here you can view a live feed of offers to buy or rent timeshare. You will see the ad number, the resort, the date, the amount, and the type of offer.

The new Sell My Timeshare NOW and Timeshare Broker Services Partner Portal Program is attracting a lot of attention.

And it should!

This no-strings-attached program provides anyone with clean timeshare resale or rental inventory an excellent venue for marketing their properties on our high-visibility websites. Yet the listings are non-exclusive, require no up-front fee to market, and can be taken down by the listing partner any time, with no questions asked.

We are very excited to be offering this industry-first service. It will work for any timeshare or real estate professional who:

• Sells or rents timeshare
• Is a resales company
• Takes timeshare trade-ins
• Is a timeshare developer
• Or a real estate or timeshare broker
• Or a management company or HOA
• Or simply has access to clean, rentable inventory

Please take 52 seconds and watch this video… We think you will understand a lot more about how simple it is to market your timeshare resales through the Partner Portal Program.

To learn more about the Partner Portal, please read today’s media release: Sell My Timeshare NOW Improving Timeshare Resale and Rental Options for Industry.

This week there is been a lot of buzz about the new Sell My Timeshare NOW Partner Portal for timeshare resales and timeshare rentals.

This new tool provides the first consolidated resource for buying, renting, and selling timeshare inventory. And while it will mean a huge boost for many in the timeshare industry, including resellers, brokers, and HOAs to name only a few, the new Partner Portal will indirectly affect consumers, too.

What the Partner Portal Means for Timeshare Owners

First, the Partner Portal provides one-stop shopping for the consumer within the timeshare industry with the most comprehensive inventory of properties for sale or rent available. Because the Partner Portal Program functions in much the same way as an MLS, prospective buyers and renters can shop online knowing they are seeing the broadest scope of the properties available on the secondary market. But the Partner Portal has value for consumers at other levels too.

The more standardization and unification of the resale industry, the more the consumer benefits.  A regulated and standardized timeshare resales and rental industry is a healthy industry.

As the high-visibility, high-traffic websites of Sell My Timeshare NOW make it easier for timeshare management companies, Home Owner Associations, and even timeshare development and sales companies to move inventory and keep timeshare resorts strong and robust, the product owned by individuals also stays strong and robust.

And to learn more about the Partner Portal program at: www.sellmytimesharenow.com/media/pdf/partner-portal.pdf or by contacting Jerome Bocquet at 877-884-9577 ext. 307 or Jay Bade at 317-213-2553.

View the Partner Portal login page www.sellmytimesharenow.com/portal.

Not only are we getting the word out to consumers that we have just released the Top 100 Timeshare Resales and Top 100 Timeshare Rentals lists, we are also getting the word out to the timeshare and vacation ownership industry.

Through our owner services program, we provide customized resort services for timeshare resort companies, developers, and HOAs that may not have their own internal programs but want to work with a reputable resales company to provide rental and resale options to their owners. Sell My Timeshare NOW, though Vacation Property Solutions, offers unique, resort-friendly services that make it easy for developers and HOAs to satisfy their need to sell timeshares, while helping them increase customer satisfaction and brand loyalty.

The new Hot 100 Timeshare Resales report and the Hot 100 Timeshare Rentals are available here:

Timeshare Resales http://www.sellmytimesharenow.com/media/pdf/HOT-TIMESHARE-RESALES-2011.pdf

Timeshare Rentals http://www.sellmytimesharenow.com/media/pdf/HOT-TIMESHARE-RENTALS-2011.pdf

On these lists, you will see a diversity of timeshare resorts and destinations. While the branded hospitality providers are present, so are the smaller independent resorts. You will see that Sell My Timeshare NOW has buyers and renters making offers on traditional timeshare as well as on timeshare points and vacation clubs, and on resorts at beaches, east coast, west coast, ski destinations, and even urban properties.

As a timeshare owner who wishes to sell or rent; as a timeshare company; or as a prospective buyer or renter, when you study the Sell My Timeshare NOW Hot Resales and Rentals lists, you gain consumer generated insights; the properties on these lists are there because consumers have put them there. The Hot 100 Timeshare Resales report and the Hot 100 Timeshare Rentals show you the most in-demand, hottest timeshares and vacation ownership destinations in the world!

Some things have changed dramatically in the world … others, not so much.

Take the way most people shop and plan their lives, for instance. We have generally become very comfortable buying goods and services online.

Thick, yellow phone books are nearly a thing of the past, as most of us access the internet from our computers, our phones, our laptops and our ebook readers, when we need information.

We have pretty much abandoned maps, unless they appear online. Instead, we let our cars, our phones, and our other smart devices tell us how to reach our destinations.

And we certainly have less time for vacationing than ever before, and in many cases, less money. Overall, we are less certain about the future, the economy, or the path we should follow.

But despite all this, some things never change.

Our children still grow up all too quickly. Their minds, their feet, and their personalities grow and change… almost before our eyes.

The number of days we have to spend with those we love always has and always will seem too few. Opportunities to make memories remain priceless, no matter the state of the world’s economy or the condition of our own personal budgets.

Timeshares for Making Lasting Memories

If you have never vacationed in a timeshare, you may be in for a big surprise. Timeshare, or vacation ownership as it is also called, is neither complex nor problematic, even though some naysayers would like you to believe it is.

Timeshares, either purchased as value-priced resales, or enjoyed as rentals, are a simple, affordable way to plan a vacation. In most cases, they are surprisingly flexible. They allow you to plan far in advance or schedule last minute.

You can search for a timeshare resale or a timeshare rental by location, price, size, resort brand, or even just by the types of activities you want to enjoy. You can handle your transaction online by yourself or use a timeshare resale professional to assist you. You can also work with a timeshare broker and let someone else handle the details for you when you are ready to buy a timeshare.

The opportunities of timeshare have changed, and continue to change, to better serve your needs and the way you like to run your life. Yet the many ways timeshare helps you vacation better and capture more time with those you love remain reliably constant.

When it comes to vacation planning, do we really want to know what the experts say? If you are like most people, apparently the advice of travel ‘experts’ does not rank very high on your list.

Most of us, it seems, put more stock in the opinions of complete strangers when it comes to travel and vacationing. And when viewed in comparison to the combined opinions of our friends, family, and travelers we’ve never met, travel experts fall far to the bottom of the list as influencers.

According to The Social Travel Report prepared by the independent media agency, Total Media, most consumers (based on a sample of 1,375 people) select hotels, timeshare, or other vacation lodging based on the feedback and recommendations of other consumers. The study reveals that nearly 70 percent of consumers use the internet to book vacations and that roughly 25 percent are influenced by the comments voiced online by other travelers and vacationers. In other words, consumers aren’t reading travel magazines, brochures, or consulting travel agents nearly as much as they are reading the online comments and testimonials of other consumers.

Testimonials at Sell My Timeshare NOW

Sell My Timeshare NOW has always appreciated the positive feedback the company receives from consumers who buy timeshare, sell timeshare, or rent timeshare online at www.sellmytimesharenow.com.

Follow this link to read some of the many glowing comments Sell My Timeshare NOW has earned from its timeshare buyers, renters and sellers … but here’s a word of warning, take along a cup of coffee, because this is a very, very long list!

Here’s a sampling of what you’ll find:

“Just wanted to thank you for the wonderful service we received during the process of renting our Aruba timeshare this year. We received a promp phone call with assistance to writing an ad and it was advertised on your web site the next day. We were contacted 2 months later with an offer and received the check by the following week. What great service!!” J. and A.

“I would not hesitate to recommend your company to friends looking to sell or purchase timeshares.” Arthur Budge Jr (Ad 6954)

“I have used sellmytimesharenow.com the past two years for renting our condos in Cabo San Lucas at the Pueblo Bonito Rose and Sunset Beach. We have 4 weeks that we rent every year and always have a huge amount of inquires and rent them for our asking price. The investment to post these units on sellmytimesharenow.com is well worth the money. The staff is very professional and any website updates are handled immediately and accurately. We have used other websites and received no responses and were unable to rent our units. I highly recommend using Sellmytimesharenow.com for renting your units!” Brenda T. (Ad 204083)

With the economy still uncertain, you may be wondering who is in the market to buy timeshare resales. For all that we hear about the dreaded “staycation,” it has not become the norm. Spend an afternoon in any resort destination and you will see that although it may or may not be as busy as in the past, it is definitely not a ghost town. People are still traveling, even though they may have cut their typical two week vacation down to ten days, or their week long holiday down to four or five days.

Along with paring down the length of their trips, many vacationers are looking for better deals on accommodations. Travel experts, including some who have never before paid much attention to timeshare rentals, are suddenly recommending renting a timeshare a way to save money on vacationing, while still enjoying great resorts in popular destinations.

And timeshare resales still have a strong market as well. Seventy-eight million Americans are Baby Boomers, a generation that lists its number one recreational activity as Leisure Travel. Their children often fall into the demographic known as Millennials (people born in the 1980s and 1990s). Overall the roughly 75 million Millennials represent a generation that grew up vacationing and considers taking a vacation to be their entitlement—a privilege they expect and will strive to protect if it is challenged.

The Timeshare Resale and Timeshare Rental Solution

The bottom line for timeshare owners who want to sell timeshare they no longer use, or use their property or interval as a timeshare rental, is that there are buyers. Although they may be vacationing differently than they have in years past, they have not given up their vacation and holiday time. And their new focus on bargain shopping on serves to make them more interested than ever in the great deal available in timeshare resales and timeshare rentals.