Your Boston timeshare resale or Boston timeshare rental is a great place to spend the Labor Day Weekend holiday, enjoying the 26th Annual Gloucester Schooner Festival. Celebrated some 30 miles from Boston, in the charming nautical town of Gloucester, this event commemorates historic contributions of the fishing schooner and the seamen who sail them.

Gloucester is the oldest fishing port on the North American Atlantic coastline and its historic harbor will be filled with the billowing sails of more than fifty authentic schooners. There will be three sailing events (Traditional Small Craft Races; Parade of Sail; and the) Mayor’s Race) as well as a host of activities, good fun, and good food.

Go for the Friday night block party, featuring music, dancing, and cinema under the stars. Take the Saturday Walking Tour of Gloucester’s Working Waterfront, tour the US Coast Guard Station, and visit the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center. Saturday night features the Parade of Lights and fireworks over the harbor. Sunday, you’ll want to witness the Parade of Sail, where all of the participating schooners hoist their sails and take to the harbor with fanfare and pageantry you’ll never forget.

Massachusetts Timeshare Vacation, Leave Your Daily Demands Behind

Experiencing old New England at the 26th Annual Gloucester Schooner Festival provides you and your family a chance to step back in time, leave behind the demands of your daily schedule, and live a page out of America’s colorful past. With all the options available to rent Massachusetts timeshare or exchange timeshare you already own, you don’t have to miss out on special New England getaways and relaxing holidays that offer you the fun and the relaxation you both deserve and crave.

Sell My Timeshare NOW started as a good entrepreneurial idea… that has continued to get better and
better.

Today, Sell My Timeshare NOW is a leader in timeshare resale and rental advertising and with our brokerage arm, Timeshare Broker Services, a leader in brokered timeshare resales. The company is proven and trusted, with our websites averaging more than two million pageviews each month. But SellMyTimeshareNOW.com began seven years ago as nothing more than the vision of entrepreneurs who believed in an idea and were willing to invest energy, personal resources, and genuine sweat equity into seeing it develop.

Timeshare, as a concept, was originally the result of entrepreneurial minds willing to think, pardon the cliché, “outside the box” about new possibilities in vacation ownership. As the industry grew and time passed, companies such as Sell My Timeshare NOW developed because new entrepreneurial minds recognized unmet consumer needs in the timeshare industry and could offer cost effective ways to meet those needs.

But in a struggling global economy, with timeshares taking both deserved and unfounded criticism in the media virtually every day, you have to wonder if there is anything to entice new blood, new ideas, and exuberant entrepreneurs into this business. And if there isn’t, will the current thought leaders of the industry put forth and embrace the kind of new thinking necessary to recharge the concept, making it vibrant and flexible in all the ways it needs to be?

Why Entrepreneurs are Important to Timeshares

Startup companies in any industry (on average) account for more than 60 percent of the new jobs available. Between automation, downsizing, and the fact that more people enter the workforce each year than exit it, new job creation is critical in maintaining (or recreating)a healthy economy.

The timeshare industry began with a basic flaw, that being the absence of a process for reselling timeshare. Imagine the automobile industry without a resale option? What if car dealers offered owners no way to resell their vehicles; it would be like saying we will sell you a new car, but should you ever want to resell it and buy a different car or even get rid of it entirely and go back to riding the bus, well… you are just out of luck. Until Sell My Timeshare NOW began offering affordable, effective, and trustworthy timeshare resale solutions, timeshare owners were left struggling over what to do with a timeshare they no longer wanted to own.

The combination of a very atypical sales model for new timeshares and the lack of a viable plan for timeshare resales has haunted the industry, creating an Achilles heel of vulnerability. With no regulated or structured timeshare resales plans in place, the door was left open for unscrupulous people to jump in trying to make a quick buck off of someone else’s problem. Timeshare resale scams have popped up like a “Whack-a-mole” game, with government agencies wielding a rubber mallet, trying to keep them at bay.

As long as there are lemonade stands operated by pint-size visionaries, there will be another crop of entrepreneurs to charge into the business arena and both shake it up and smooth it out by challenging old ideas and instigating new ones. Let’s hope the timeshare industry closes the door on scammers and at the same time, puts out the welcome mat for the dreamers and doers who have so much to offer for the future.

In the past 12 months, internet patterns have changed dramatically in China. Where travel destinations were once only researched online, a growing percentage of today’s residents of mainland China both research and buy travel online.

Until recently, Chinese internet technology made e-commerce for travel difficult for Chinese web surfers, plus cultural traditions lingered, creating a preference for face-to-face interactions. But China is presently experiencing the same phenomena that has occurred in North America and Europe… once people begin to gain even the slightest comfort level with booking hotels, timeshare rentals, and air travel online, use escalates rapidly.

The Chinese Powder Keg for Buying Travel, Timeshares, and Timeshare Rentals Online

China already has over 400 million internet users, and many believe the numbers are far higher claiming that young adults relying solely on cell phones (and one of the strongest demographics for internet use) are overlooked in this headcount. With this in mind, the numbers quickly begin to add up to a powdered keg ready for explosion:

1. The Chinese yuan has recent seen substantial appreciation again the US dollar.
2. Chinese travel visas are becoming easier and easier to obtain worldwide.
3. Online search and ecommerce technology in China are quickly catching up with other parts of the world.
4. The Beijing Olympics exposed many Chinese to the global face of travel in a new and exciting way.
5. The China National Tourism Administration expects year-over-year to see an increase in outbound travel of not less than 7 percent.
6. Between January and May of 2010, China’s number of tourists for outbound travel already has increased by 19 percent over the same period in 2009.
7. iResearch estimates that revenue from the online travel service market (in China) will more than triple between 2009 and 2013.

We’ve seen it happen here in the US. As a culture of people become internet savvy and internet confident to book travel services online, comfort spreads by osmosis to buying timeshare resales and booking of timeshare rentals from a web-based resource. And for timeshare owners looking to resell timeshare, these changes ultimately add up to a larger—vastly larger—pool of potential timeshare buyers and renters.

More insight on travel in China from the National Tourism Administration of the People’s Republic of China.

Headlines float around the internet with enticing messages about your personal debt bailout or your credit card relief plan. They imply that the federal government has in some way offered consumers the same type of debt relief that has been made available to big business and the banking industry—but this is simply misleading messaging. You will even find timeshare related articles that suggest that somehow these erroneously named ‘bailouts’ address timeshare mortgages. This is smoke and mirrors talk; no transparency to it.

Here’s what is accurate. Timeshare owners who are struggling to make their timeshare mortgage payment can find some timeshare relief from new governmental programs…indirectly. If you are able to renegotiate your homeowners mortgage (for your residential home, not your timeshare) to a lower interest rate, then you will have more cash flow in your monthly budget to make paying other expenses, including those related to your timeshare, a little easier.

And although credit card companies have always been approachable about payment plans and sometimes about reducing the overall amount of debt if you are in over your head, there is more pressure on them than ever before to work with consumers. If you successfully negotiate a consolidated monthly payment for your credit cards, or even just a lower payment on the ones that give you problems, then again, you may indirectly have more money to use to pay other expenses, including your timeshare mortgage or timeshare annual fees and/or taxes. Additionally, as part of the credit card reform act, your credit card bill should now be easier to read and communicate to you more clearly how much you are actually paying in interest—information that should make it easier for more people to control debt in the future.

Option: Use Your Timeshare as a Vacation Rental

Another alternative for offsetting the cost of your timeshare is to use your timeshare as a rental. Timeshare rental is a vacation accommodations option that is growing in popularity. And as more timeshare companies make renting timeshare easier to do, vacationers are realizing that timeshare rental affords them more space, typically for less money than renting a hotel or motel room.

Timeshare rental can be a win-win because it lets the timeshare owner retain ownership of the timeshare for use in the future while creating some income from it to offset the cost of ownership. If you think timeshare rental is an alternative that can help you, you can learn more here: Rent your timeshare

Maybe you have never considered taking the kids and heading to Fiji for a vacation. You may even be wondering where exactly is Fiji? Well, here are some very good reasons to rethink Fiji as your vacation destination.

First, Fiji is beautiful—purely, authentically, beautiful. Known as “The Crossroads of the Pacific,” the islands of Fiji (100 of the 330 isles are inhabited) lie at a cross point with Los Angeles approximately a ten-hour flight to the northeast and Japan only slightly closer to the northwest. Australia is southwest of Fiji (about four hours away); New Zealand due south; and French Polynesia is to the southeast.

1. Fiji is a true South Pacific paradise, known for its pristine beaches, sparkling water, dramatic rainforests and —the part that may matter to you the most—its affordable pricing.
2. Fiji is often seen as a romantic getaway or honeymoon destination (which it certainly is) but because the people there are by nature, warm and hospitable, it is also a good choice for an unforgettable family vacation.
3. Air Pacific, Fiji’s International Airline, is making this island destination even more kid-friendly by offering “Kid’s Fly Free.” You must book your travel before August 15, 2010, but you can use your tickets anytime between August 1, 2010 and February 28, 2011, except during the blackout dates of December 15, 2010 to January 15, 2011. For each free child’s ticket you must be purchasing a qualifying adult ticket. You can find out more at Air Pacific reservations, by calling 1-800-227-4446.
4. Now maximize your vacation savings by adding a great deal on a Fiji timeshare resale or Fiji timeshare rental.

A Fiji timeshare holiday can turn out to be a vacation of a lifetime and the kind of experience you and your children will remember forever. Sometimes, you just have to break the mold and do the unexpected.

Business today recognizes that it is no longer enough to attract consumers and customers to your stores and websites. Instead, to serve people in the way they want to be served, you must actually go to the places where consumers already are. And in many cases, those places include Twitter, blogs, Facebook, and a host of other social media platforms.

With this objective in mind, always seeking to be the most consumer-friendly, service oriented company in timeshare resales, timeshare rentals, and timeshare brokerage, Sell My Timeshare NOW is working to develop our face and our place in the world of social media. In order to offer the most readily available, easy-to-access inventory of timeshares on the secondary market, we want to be “found” wherever consumers are looking.

Here are a few of the places to look for information and updates from Sell My Timeshare NOW:

• Our Twitter accounts: @JasonTremblay_ and @VacationHotDeal
• You will find us growing our presence on LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com/in/ceosellmytimesharenow and SellMyTimeshareNOW, LLC
• Look for downloadable reports on Scribed www.scribd.com/SellMyTimeshare

But this is only the beginning. We are growing, reaching out, and connecting. Please check out these sites above, but also come back to them often to watch us grow and improve.

In the US, there are 155 National Forests containing almost 190 million acres of protected land and 20 National Grasslands that include nearly 4 million acres of protected land. While lodging in National Forests varies (some areas permit resorts to be built within the protected forest area) when vacation accommodations are not available with the Forest or Grassland, you will find timeshare resorts nearby, and in some cases, built at the perimeters of the nationally protected land. In addition to giving you and your family a chance to get outdoors and enjoy some of America’s most scenic and natural terrain, vacation spent in a National Forrest or Grassland is as good for the US economy as it is for your body, mind, and spirit.

Thanks to the bloggers at GetOutdoors.com for this helpful information:

• Recreation activities within National Forests and Grasslands sustain 223,000 jobs in the rural communities within 50 miles of the protected land. These jobs include providers of whitewater rafting equipment, fishing tackle, bike rentals, game hunting equipment, even the groceries you might need to make your vacation complete.
• $13 billion is spent by visitors to National Forests in the communities within 50 miles of the park property. Flowing into the communities, these dollars generate another $14.5 billion in economic activity.
• Visitors to National Forests and Grasslands areas are culturally and economically diverse.
• While 98 percent of all National Forests offer free entry, 83 percent of visitors that pay to enter a National Forest say they are satisfied that they received value for their money.
• In 2009, despite the down economy, the US National Forest system lands saw over 170million visitors; 94 percent of the visitors say they are highly satisfied with their experience.

Simple, powerful message as you plan rejuvenating vacation time: America’s National Forests and Grasslands offer you the opportunity to explore the natural beauty of this country. When teamed with a timeshare rental or timeshare resale, they also afford you excellent opportunities for a value-priced vacation or holiday.

Do you feel as if this summer is passing you by? That you’ve failed to make vacation plans thus far, and now have little hope of working one in before the kids go back to school and you’ve put away your flip-flops for the season?

Not to worry! You can still work an affordable last-minute vacation into your plans and the opportunities in timeshare rentals have a lot to do with making this possible. Here’s how it works: Every year some timeshare owners find they cannot use their timeshare holiday. Sometimes the reason is illness, sometimes it is a scheduling snafu with their work responsibilities—maybe they are even in the midst of a job relocation, divorce, or other life issue. They wind up not using their timeshare and not banking it to use in the future …But they are glad to rent it!

5 Reasons Timeshare Rentals are Your Vacation Solution

Timeshare rentals are one of the ways you can genuinely benefit from timeshare as a vacation product. Here are 5 reasons why a timeshare rental may be your answer to a 2010 summer vacation:

1. Timeshare rentals can be booked in advance, but are also available on short notice for last-minute vacation scheduling.
2. Timeshare rentals may be available in increments of less than a week, for those times when your schedule only permits a shorter stay.
3. Booking a timeshare rental is as easy (and sometimes easier) than booking a hotel room. The “Book it NOW” feature at Sell My Timeshare NOW, is one option for timeshare rental that lets you book online, with immediate confirmation by email, providing you with your unique booking number.
4. Timeshare rentals are available worldwide. You can travel the globe, but you can also plan a relaxing drive-to vacation, which eliminates the expense and hassle of booking last minute air travel.
5. Timeshare rentals can be negotiable. Oftentimes you may find that the closer it gets to a timeshare’s usage date (in other words, the more last minute it is) the more flexible the timeshare owner may be on pricing.

Let’s face it; “staycations” are nobody’s idea of a real holiday. Before you give up all plans of vacationing this summer, look into the reasonable and easy-to-book opportunities in timeshare rental.

Marriott Vacation Club International timeshares are unquestionably popular. When Sell My Timeshare NOW published this year’s HOT 100 List of timeshare resale and rental properties that received the most offers to buy or rent, six of the top ten were Marriott timeshares.

Coming in as number ten on the list is Marriott’s Oceanwatch Villas At Grande Dunes timeshare in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. This favorite resort is located beachside on the famous Myrtle Beach Grand Strand and features two-bedroom, two-bath timeshare villas that accommodate up to eight adults.

You can choose your vista from oceanfront, ocean side, ocean view or garden view, all with private balconies, full kitchens, and a separate living and dining area. Plan a Myrtle Beach timeshare vacation and play golf at over 100 nearby courses and explore the shops, restaurants and theme park activities along the Grand Strand. But you can also take it easy on the beach or poolside without ever leaving this beautiful resort.

Marriott’s Oceanwatch Villas at Grande Dunes are an excellent choice when you, or some members of your vacation party, want to truly relax and gear down from the daily grind. Onsite amenities include The MarketPlace Convenience Store and Grill, the Sand Dollar Pool Bar (seasonal), Pizza Hut Express, Starbucks, and The Woodsy Grill & Pool Bar. Best of all, you can enjoy a Marriott Oceanwatch Villas at Grande Dunes timeshare by a buying timeshare resale at a great price or taking advantage of a timeshare rental.

Click here to view the full 2010 Sell My Timeshare NOW HOT 100 List.

Last week, Sell My Timeshare NOW released its 2010 HOT 100 List, and we want to make sure you didn’t miss it. This free, downloadable report gives you valuable insight into which timeshare resales and timeshare rentals people are genuinely interested in buying or renting.

Covering the “hottest” 100 timeshares, this report ranks from number one to number one hundred, the timeshares that are advertised and marketed on the websites for Sell My Timeshare NOW, and that receive the largest number of offers to buy or rent in 2009. When you read the report, you are no longer relying on information from a timeshare sales company or timeshare developer to help you evaluate the popularity and resale demand for a resort, you are able to assess for yourself recent consumer buying patterns in timeshares.

The Sell My Timeshare NOW HOT 100 List is import to you because:

• As a prospective timeshare buyer, you get an authentic sense of which timeshare resorts others have picked as their favorites.
• As a timeshare owner you can gage demand for your timeshare should you want to use it as a timeshare rental or timeshare resale.
• As an interested timeshare renter, you can determine whether to look for rentals at the most popular destinations, or to consider renting timeshare at a resort where demand is lower.

Click here to download for the 2010 Sell My Timeshare NOW HOT 100 List.