Interval International

Watch this video from Breckenridge Grand Vacations, to learn more about timeshare exchange of your Breckrenridge Grand Vacations timeshare through Interval International.

The days when a family would buy a timeshare and then be limited to only vacationing at the same resort, year after year, are long since over.

Why Timeshare Owners Like to Return to a Favorite Timeshare Resort

Before we elaborate on the benefits of timeshare exchange, let’s clarify that some timeshare owners choose to return to a favorite resort. Often, these owners enjoy the opportunity to create traditions for their children; to see their children experience a familiar destination first as toddlers, then during their elementary school years, and later as teens or college students. For these families, the anticipation of sharing the family resort vacation with future generations is part of the fun.

Other timeshare owners simply like the predictability of finding a destination they truly enjoy and knowing that each vacation will be at least as good as the last. They know before they go that their chosen resort offers the features and amenities they prefer. These owners may own other timeshares they use for timeshare exchange at different times during the year, but they still have one resort they enjoy so much, they make sure they vacation there year after year.

Why Other Timeshare Owners Rave about Timeshare Exchange

As much as some vacationers enjoy savoring a favorite spot each year, others feel the need to wander, to use their vacation time to explore resorts and destinations that are new territory for them. For these travelers, timeshare exchange is an ideal option. Interval International is one of the leaders in timeshare exchange, ranking as the second largest timeshare exchange company in the world.

Miami, Florida based, Interval International offers vacation ownership exchange, as well as travel and leisure services, with offices in 15 different countries. Its membership, which includes some 2 million vacationing families, enjoy timeshare exchange within Interval International’s more than 2600 affiliate resorts, located in 75 countries around the world.

More facts about Interval International timeshare exchange:

• Interval International members can make timeshare resort exchanges and other travel arrangements online and in real time at IntervalWorld.com

• As a member of II, you can exchange your timeshare interval for another date, another location, or both.

• Interval International maintains dedicated Member-Services Centers around the world to offer personal assistance to its members.

• Membership programs at II include three tiers with varying benefits: Interval Gold; Interval Platinum; and Club Interval Gold.

Always expanding and updating its services to its owners, this past week Interval International announced a new partnership with DG Film, LLC, a full-service production firm that specializes in creating customized resort and location videos.

Jan Wyatt, Interval’s vice president of corporate marketing, explains, “Consumers are increasingly using Internet search in vacation planning, and expect to see video as part of the information that is available online. Creative, professionally produced high-definition video is a desirable way for developers to feature their resorts, and help travelers to visualize their next dream vacations.” (Read the full media release here:  INTERVAL INTERNATIONAL AND DG FILM FORM ALLIANCE: Offers developer clients creative video production services)

Private vacation club, Club Intrawest (part of the Intrawest Resort Club Group), is partnering with Interval International through a long-term master affiliation agreement.

The contract covers all eight Club Intrawest resorts in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, and all future properties that the company develops or acquires during the term of the agreement. It also provides for Interval International to provide timeshare points based exchange, along with other services and benefits for Club Intrawest Members.

Trevor Bruno, president of Intrawest Resort Club Group, explains, “Interval offers exceptional quality, which is in line with our brand, and will give our 22,000 Members access to a more high-end exchange experience. We also chose to partner with Interval because it has points-exchange expertise and the technology to seamlessly integrate with our existing club offering.”

Vancouver-based Club Intrawest is a vacation club in which members share ownership of vacation homes across Canada, the US, and Mexico and have access to hand-picked hotels, resorts, and lodging properties through ExtraOrdinary Escapes, Intrawest’s private exchange program.

Craig M. Nash, chairman, president, and CEO of Interval Leisure Group says, “We are delighted to enter into this new relationship with Club Intrawest. Their resorts are an outstanding complement to our network, and they share our commitment to meeting, and exceeding, members’ expectations.”

Interval International is a pioneer and innovator in serving the vacation ownership market since 1976, providing timeshare exchange and other travel and vacation benefits. The Interval International network includes over 2700 resorts in 75 countries around the world.

With so many financial gurus quick to criticize timeshare, it is both refreshing and reassuring to read the words of a respected financial planner who understands the why and how of timeshare vacations and actually recommends timeshares and timeshare rentals.

Irvin G. Schorsch III, founder and president of Pennsylvania Capital Management, Inc., has an excellent article in today’s issue (May 25, 2012) of the Huffington Post Money Section. In his article, “The Don’t-Defer-Your-Life Approach to Financial Planning,” Schorsch doesn’t encourage consumers to be reckless, extravagant, or foolish with money, but he does point out that if you are always waiting until some future date when your life/finances/etc. are in better shape to do the things you really want to do … well, you run a high risk of never being able to do them at all.

Suggesting ways people can affordably enjoy life now, Schorsch recommends that opera or theater lovers volunteer to work as a theater usher in order experience the arts they love without the cost or that those who dream of getting a PhD. audit courses, typically free at the prestigious universities they have dreamed of attending. Recommending strategies to live better for less, from bartering to using group discount coupons, Schorsch explains that he encourages his clients, “… to abandon the “deferred-life” plan and live life now, rather than in some uncertain, idealized “later” timeline.”

Timeshares, Timeshare Rentals, and Vacation Ownership, Affordable Ways to Live Your Life Now

And for all of us whose vacation and travel dreams exceed our current budgets, Financial Planner Irvin Schorsch says:

“Can’t afford a summer home or ski condo? Rent or buy a timeshare with a family member or friend. While I don’t recommend a timeshare as an investment, it can be a great way for frequent travelers to save on accommodations in their favorite vacation spots. If you tire of going to one place year after year, timeshare networks like Marriott, Disney Vacation Homes, RCI and Interval International allow trades that will give you access to accommodations in those faraway places you’ve fantasized about.”

Finally, a financial planner who understands that timeshares and vacation ownership are not an investment one makes for financial gain. Instead, timeshare resales and timeshare rentals are an “investment” in a lifestyle that makes great vacations and travel possible for millions and millions of consumers.

As Mr. Schorsch says, “An exciting, well-lived life does not necessarily require a lot of money.”

And a timeshare resale or timeshare rental doesn’t require a lot of money, but it certainly can go a long way to helping you enjoy an exciting, well-life right now, instead of waiting for a future that may never come.

Follow this link to read the full text of, “The Don’t-Defer-Your-Life Approach to Financial Planning.”

Even if you think you know a lot about timeshares and vacation ownership, you might not be able to answer the question: Who is the largest timeshare resort manager?

The surprise answer is Interval International; surprising to many because people tend to think of II as one of the largest names in timeshare exchange and a provider of other types of vacation and travel services, but not as provider of resort management services. However, Interval International’s interest as a timeshare resort manager is growing at a remarkable pace; not by leaps and bounds but by leaps and acquisitions.

In February 2012, II purchased VRI, Vacation Resorts International.  As Craig Nash, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Interval Leisure Group explains, “With the acquisition of VRI and ILG’s (Interval Leisure Group) existing management interests, Interval Leisure Group becomes the largest independent provider of resort and homeowner association management services to the shared ownership industry. ILG companies now deliver these services to more than 180 timeshare resort and club locations and 325,000 owner families.”

Slightly more than a year earlier, in November of 2010, Interval International announced it had acquired all of the equity in Trading Places International. At that time, TPI was a California-based provider of timeshare exchange and leisure services to more than 300,000 vacation owners, including providing onsite property management at over 20 United States timeshare resorts located throughout the US mainland and Hawaii, as well as in Mexico.