The Canadian Resort Development Association (CRDA) is partnering with Big Picture Conferences to produce VO-CON. VO-CON will be the largest and leading vacation ownership conference in Canada and the only Canadian event truly focused on resort development and timeshares. Orie Berlasso, Conference Producer says, “Big Picture Conferences events have become the ‘must attend’ annual events in [...]

Earlier this week we blogged about how timeshare resort management group, Grand Pacific Resort Management, is expanding (see: Grand Pacific Resort Management Adds 3 Timeshare Properties). Now let’s take a closer look as the new properties added, which include another California timeshare for the GPRM managed family of  resort properties, along with a Hawaii timeshare [...]

Declaring that as a timeshare and vacation ownership resort management company it is no longer the “best kept secret” in timeshare management, Grand Pacific Resort Management announces  the addition of 3 new resort properties. The new resorts include Canada, California and Hawaii timeshare. The company, based in Carlsbad, California, is now responsible for the management [...]

The beautiful Whistler Vacation Club timeshares, located in British Columbia, Canada, have upgraded its systems with SPI Software. Marlene Scott, Whistler Vacation Club’s Executive Director/General Manager, says, “SPI is our daily ‘go-to’ for all member information, reservations, reservation history, financial transactions, inventory management, inventory ceding, industry partner inventory allocation and all in real time. Reservation [...]

The 2012 Canadian Resort Development Association Annual Timeshare Conference (CRDA) gets underway this week at the Intercontinental Toronto Centre, Toronto, Canada. VacationOwnership.com is excited to be a part of the conference and excited about the growth and changes at our own company and the growth and changes in the timeshare and vacation ownership industries. The conference [...]

The message of this year’s Canadian Resort Development Association Annual Timeshare Conference  is the powerful and timely reminder: “It’s not business as usual anymore.” As Craig M. Nash, Chairman, President, and CEO of Interval Leisure Group has said, it’s, “not your father’s timeshare … The recent financial fiasco has taught us that our traditional way [...]

If you see the value in locking in the price of a lifetime of vacation accommodations at today’s prices and recognize the convenience and time savings of having a pre-paid, pre-planned vacation that rolls around year after year, then a timeshare resale is likely to be a great purchase for you.

With a great Canadian Resort Development Association Conference wrapped up and a lot of enthusiasm perking throughout the Canada timeshare industry, let’s look more closely at where vacation ownership actually stands in Canada. 89 percent of Canadians surveyed in a recent study say their opinion of Canada timeshare either is the same or better than [...]

My trip to Vancouver for the CRDA Conference this week includes time spent with the great team at Aviawest. You may not know the Aviawest story, but it began in 1989, when Andrew Pearson spotted a piece of oceanfront property on the east coast of Vancouver Island, south of Parksville. The 15-acre property, known as [...]

The 2011 CRDA Resort Development Summit, has announced that Jim Madrid will be its Keynote Speaker. The Summit, conducted by the Canadian Resort Development Association (CRDA), is scheduled for April 27 – 29, 2011, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Vancouver, BC. Jim Madrid is the founder of Entelechy Training and Development, a Human Performance [...]