Hilton Grand Vacations Club (Hilton timeshare) is a popular and much-loved vacation ownership option for many families and couples today. Not only are HGVC resorts beautiful and located at all the places you love to vacation, but for Hilton timeshare owners, vacation planning is flexible and designed to fit in easily with today’s busy world [...]

If you are a timeshare owner, or are thinking you want to buy a timeshare, you may have run across the “1-in-4” Rule. Hilton Grand Vacations Club timeshare (HGVC) is one of the resorts that enforces the “1-in-4” Rule and if you are a Hilton timeshare owner or buying HGVC timeshare, you will want to [...]

In the wake of the tragic events in Boston, we offer the following information. The City of Boston has established “One Fund Boston.” Boston-based John Hancock (insurance company) has already committed $1 million to the fund which will raise money for families most affected by the bombings. Ten of the victims were taken to Boston’s [...]

The following article, written by Jason Tremblay of VacationOwnership.com LLC., appears in the February 2013 edition of The Resort Trades. You can read the article below, in print, or on the magazine’s website at www.resorttrades.com. This article is republished here with permission of The Resort Trades, a trusted resource since 1986 in the vacation ownership, timeshare, and [...]

What did you do in 2012? RCI timeshare exchange grew by 150 resort properties in 2012. Joining the company’s more than 4,000 global resort properties were 150 new RCI timeshare exchange affiliates. RCI Timeshare President, Gordon Gurnik, says, “We are delighted to be celebrating the addition of 150 new affiliated properties in 2012. These new [...]

The American Resort Development Association of Hawaii (ARDA-Hawaii) presents Kauai’s 2012 Hawaii Timeshare Employee of the Year award to Julie Pavao  of the Westin Princeville Ocean Resort Villas. Pavao, an Executive Assistant at the Westin, is the first to receive Kauai’s 2012 Timeshare Employee of the Year award through the statewide program. ARDA Hawaii has [...]

In recent years, timeshares across the US, haven’t experienced a healthy period of growth—except in Hawaii. Hawaii timeshares are trending up these days with 1436 new Hawaii timeshare units having been built (or on schedule to be built) between 2011 and the end of 2013. Remarkably, there is even the potential for as many as [...]

Hilton Grand Vacations timeshare has announced it will be opening Sunrise Lodge, a timeshare property located within the award-winning Canyons Resort in Park City, Utah. The scheduled opening date is November 21, 2012—just in time for Thanksgiving and the start of ski season on November 23. The 83 timeshare units will be available to Hilton Grand [...]

The Rosen College of Hospitality Management at the University of Central Florida has announced plans to work collaboratively with representatives of leading timeshare resorts and others in the timeshare vacation industry to build a stronger curriculum, enrich academic research and strengthen relationships and interaction opportunities between the University students and the timeshare and vacation ownership [...]

Throughout this past week, The Timeshare Authority blog has tried to compile as much information as possible about the status of timeshare resorts and hotels impacted by Hurricane Sandy. For the most comprehensive overview, you may wish to check these posts published this week: Hurricane Sandy Hotel, Travel, and Timeshare Updates Updates on Hotel and [...]