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.

Last week was the first annual Global Networking Expo & Perspective Magazine Awards Gala, held at the Atlantis Resort, Paradise Island, Bahamas—also known as, “The GNEX Conference.” This new event to the timeshare industry brought opportunity for learning, networking, connecting. It also offered the perfect venue for looking at some of the “BURNING ISSUES” of [...]

Next week when the timeshare industry assembles at the Atlantis Resort, Paradise Island, Bahamas, for the first annual Global Networking Expo (GNEX 2011) and Perspective Magazine Awards Gala, I will have the privilege of being part of one of the “Burning Issues” discussion panels. Under the heading of “Challenges We Face,” we won’t be making [...]

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 [...]

I got fooled recently by a letter I personally received in the mail. It appeared to be ‘official’ and appeared to require me to file a certain form with a state agency. Yet because the letter almost made sense, but didn’t quite, I called a financial advisor with questions about it. He said, “It’s garbage. [...]

René Cardinal has officially been announced as the new President of the timeshare group, Club Intrawest Resort Club Group, a division of Intrawest ULC. As a part of Club Intrawest for more than ten years, Cardinal serves as a Director of the Canadian Resort Development Association (CRDA) and a trustee for ARDA, the American Resort [...]

We thought you’d find this interview between Jason Tremblay of Sell My Timeshare NOW and The Timeshare Authority blog and Tim Wilson of AskMando.com very interesting. It was recorded in October during the CRDA Conference in Toronto and released just before the Thanksgiving holidays. (For more information about the conference see: CRDA Timeshare Conference and [...]