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Monday, May 13, 2013

Summer Bay Resorts Timeshare Through the Eyes of an Owner

Bruce Carnohan of Dallas, Texas has been a Summer Bay Resorts timeshare owner longer than he’s been a US Citizen. Born in England, Bruce has worked during much of his professional career in the United States and Dallas, Texas has come to feel so much like home that just over a year ago, Bruce became [...]

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Ramada Phillip Island Wyndham Timeshare Wants Help to Name the Penguin

More fun news about the new Australia timeshare from Wyndham timeshare that we wrote about yesterday here on The Timeshare Authority blog. (See: Australia Timeshare Expands with Wyndham Vacation Resorts Asia Pacific Resort.) The Ramada Phillip Island, a mixed-use property is managed by the Wyndham Vacation Resorts Asia Pacific group and includes both hotel units and [...]

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Australia Timeshare Expands with Wyndham Vacation Resorts Asia Pacific Resort

This week, The Hon. Ken Smith MLA, Member for Bass and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly along with other key Tourism and Local Government representatives officially announced the opening of a new Australia timeshare, the Ramada Resort Phillip Island. The Australia timeshare is a mixed use property that was developed by the partnership efforts of [...]

Friday, April 19, 2013

More Signs of Timeshare Vacation Bounce Back as Vacation Storebuilder Ramps Up

Timeshare owners, vacationers, and other travelers don’t always think about the technology that makes their timeshare vacation experiences flow…  and they shouldn’t have to. When technology works best, it is seamless and invisible. And because of this, companies such as Vacation Storebuilder, don’t always get the recognition they deserve. Yet in so many critical ways, [...]

Sunday, April 14, 2013

RCI Ventures Magazine Expanding in Timeshare News

  RCI Ventures® Magazine, produced by timeshare exchange leader, RCI, is being re-launched and is expanding its timeshare news format. RCI, part of the Wyndham Worldwide family of brands, made the announcement  of the change in its publication this past week, just before the ARDA World 2013 Annual Convention & Expo. Gordon Gurnik, president, RCI [...]

Saturday, April 13, 2013

FL, CA, and Hawaii Timeshares, the 1-2-3 of Vacation Ownership

Florida timeshare, with more timeshare resorts and more timeshare units than anywhere else in the world, continues to rank number one in timeshare vacation ownership. Despite the fact that a recently released study shows the southeastern United States and the Caribbean as the most desired locations to buy a timeshare, California timeshares take the number [...]

Friday, April 12, 2013

The Timeshare Vacation Ownership Bounce Back

It turns out: The skeptics who where ready to make funeral arrangements for the timeshare vacation ownership industry were wrong. Five years after the economic downturn (plummet), the global economy is intact and the timeshare industry is bouncing back. Preliminary data from Ernst & Young, presented this week at ARDA World 2013, shows that vacation [...]

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Moving into the Future: Timeshare and the Secondary Market

Last month, with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 100 Domain Drive, Exeter, New Hampshire, Sell My Timeshare NOW and VacationOwnership.com moved into new, purpose-built office space. For the timeshare resale and rental innovator, the move is more than the opening of doors to new offices; it parallels the company’s launch of a new perspective on renting [...]

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

VacationOwnership.com: One Company’s Big Move to Respond to a Resale Market in Transition

The following article by Jason Tremblay appears in this month’s issue of The Resort Trades. The print edition is available to attendees at ARDA World 2013, and by subscription. The online edition is available now at The Resort Trades website, or in The Resort Trades virtual magazine. Thank you to the publication for permission to [...]

Monday, April 8, 2013

VacationOwnership.com LLC: Making Moves and Making Sense in Today’s Marketplace

The following article, “VacationOwnership.com LLC: Making Moves and Making Sense in Today’s Marketplace” appears in the current issue of Perspective Magazine.  VacationOwnership.com LLC: Making Moves and Making Sense in Today’s Marketplace Sell My Timeshare NOW has been making headlines in the secondary timeshare market since it first launched. Created to provide consumers the ease and availability [...]