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This holiday season, two leaders in the timeshare industry have used their partnership to give back to their local communities.

VacationOwnership.com, LLC and Vacation Innovations have partnered this December to make the world a better place, and give presents to deserving children and families. Both organizations collected gifts for local charities to provide a little holiday cheer to children in need.

Vacation Innovations Donates to Baby DJ Program

In Orlando, Vacation Innovations collected gifts for local radio station XL106.7’s annual Baby DJ Program. This program helps local families by providing “Holiday Assistance” in the form of gift donations from various businesses and community members. Families with children age 14 and under sent letters and emails to the program to request inclusion in the event. In the next couple of days, these families will have the opportunity to visit the Toy Warehouse to select gifts for their children.

In order to provide assistance to these families, the Baby DJ program calls for help from the community. Local businesses and community members come together each year to collect gifts for Baby DJ, including Vacation Innovations. This year, Vacation Innovations collected over 85 presents for the local charity. This is the third year that the company has participated in the program.

VacationOwnership.com, LLC Donates to St. Charles’ Children’s Home

VacationOwnership.com, LLC collected donations to benefit the St. Charles’ Children’s Home in Rochester, NH. Throughout the month of December, employees from the VacationOwnership.com offices in Exeter, NH donated various gifts and toys.

St Charles’ Children’s Home is an intermediate group home. The house is home to 20 children, both boys and girls, ages 3–12. The children’s home temporarily places children through the State of New Hampshire’s Division of Children and Youth Services. During the holiday season, these children count on donations to receive gifts on Christmas.

Donating to local charities like St. Charles’ Children’s Home is an annual occurrence for VacationOwnership.com. This year, the organization generously provided over $200 in gifts and donations. All gifts were hand delivered to the children’s home, where they were gratefully received. The holiday season is the perfect time to give back to your community. Every donation helps, no matter how small. The Timeshare Authority would like to thank everyone who has donated or volunteered this holiday season.

On behalf of The Timeshare Authority, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone.

News from Holiday Travel of America about the appointment of their new Business Development Manager. Their media release, in full, appears below. For more information, visit  www.HolidayTravelIncentives.com or contact Sharon Scott, RRP at SharonINK PR & Marketing.

Holiday Travel of America Appoints Business Development Manager

Carlsbad, California; August 2013 – Holiday Travel of America (HTOA) ™ — a premiere provider of powerful and reasonably priced travel packages for retailers to use to incentivize sales – announced the appointment of Nanette Meneses as Business Development Manager. Her duties include helping expand the repertoire of effective marketing campaigns for Holiday Travel’s current resort clients. In addition, she reaches out to prospective new clients to educate them about Holiday Travel’s proven marketing programs.

“When I visit with a new prospective client, I typically review their existing marketing processes,” says Meneses. “It’s always an eye-opener to them when I can demonstrate how they can generate more and better qualified tours and close sales. For example, we recently pulled some strings to get one of our clients into a high-profile, lucrative OPC location. Then I designed some marketing programs that enabled them to expand their database and obtain exceptionally well-qualified sales leads.”

“Nanette had worked with us previously, so we were very happy to have her return,” says HTOA Executive VP Randy Fish. “She has great experience and a very creative mind. Plus, her personality is such that clients find working with her to be a very collaborative process, almost like having an in-house department. We’ve already received feedback from clients who claim her programs are producing great returns on their investment.”

ABOUT HOLIDAY TRAVEL OF AMERICA

Established in 1988, Holiday Travel of America is a premier provider of cost effective, powerful, travel promotions, incentives and packages for clients worldwide.

Great vacation ownership resorts are more than beautiful views and comfortable beds (although both of those are important.) As the Playa Linda Beach Resort in Aruba recognizes, keeping your resort operations running like clockwork is critical too. That’s why the Playa Linda Beach vacation ownership resort has selected to upgrade its systems to SPI Software, a leading provider of timeshare and resort ownership systems.

Here is their news media release provided by SharonINK PR & Marketing:

Vacation Ownership SPI Software Chosen by Playa Linda Beach Resort

Vacation ownership software leader SPI Software is pleased to announce that Playa Linda Beach Resort, a top-rated resort located on Palm Beach in Aruba, has selected SPI Orange as their future software platform.

Richard Betrian, financial director of Playa Linda Beach Resort, commented, “We selected SPI Software based on their product functionalities with the objective to improve the service to our members and guests and also to streamline our accounting processes.”

“We are delighted that Playa Linda Beach Resort selected SPI Orange to manage reservations, property management and owner financial transactions. We want to thank management and the owner’s association for making the move. Playa Linda Beach Resort joins a growing family of vacation ownership companies on SPI Orange, the industry’s most advanced platform,” adds Matt Brosious, vice president of sales for SPI Software.

About Playa Linda Beach Resort

Rated internationally as a 5-star resort, Playa Linda Beach Resort is comprised of 214 units, among them studios, one-bedroom, lanai suites, two-bedroom luxury suites, town-homes and a luxurious penthouse. Each of these beautifully decorated and fully appointed vacation homes is spacious and exceptionally well-designed. Playa Linda Beach Resort has won the RCI Gold Crown Award for twenty one consecutive years (1992-2013), a designation given to resorts that have attained the highest level of excellence in resort accommodations and hospitality. Interval International also bestowed Premier Status on the resort for 2005 through 2013. Playa Linda Beach Resort has the distinction of being a Green Globe 21 and ISO 14001 certified resort, an honor shared with only six hotels in Aruba.

About SPI Software

SPI Software provides developers and operators of vacation ownership (timeshare, fractional, private residence club and others using either traditional or points-based usage strategies) with Web-based and Microsoft.NET-based software as either an enterprise suite of software called Orange, or in specific modules to handle marketing, sales, property management, finance, maintenance fee and receivables servicing, centralized reservations or owner website access. Founded in 1978 and based in Miami, FL, SPI can be reached at 305-858-9505, [email protected].  

This week, Alderwood Management Group announced a new partnership with Dial An Exchange timeshare exchange company. Dial An Exchange timeshare company will now make it easier than ever for timeshare owners at Alderwood  managed resorts to exchange timeshare.

Below is the announcement made this week by Alderwood Management and Dial An Exchange timeshare.

Alderwood Management partners with Dial An Exchange

Big Bear, CA, Nags Head, NC & Steamboat Springs, CO; March 2013 – The Alderwood Group, a full-service, multi-site, shared ownership and vacation resort management firm announced the establishment of a partnership between their internal exchange division, Alderwood Advantage, and the global timeshare exchange provider, Dial An Exchange (DAE).

“At Alderwood Management, we are continuously seeking ways, such as this, to add value to our timeshare resort clients,” says Alderwood CEO Tom Johnson. “DAE will power our internal exchange to offer our owners ample access to a simple, reasonably priced exchange service.”

“Timeshare owners at Alderwood-managed properties can deposit weeks from their home resorts into our expansive network and withdraw them for a vacation anywhere in the world,” says DAE business development executive, Fermin Cruz. “DAE is providing Alderwood Advantage users with a simple, easy and flexible system, while letting the resorts get the most out of their inventory.”

Alderwood Advantage serves more than 10,000 owners/members within their family of resorts. Built with the traveler in mind, the new combined systems spread a smorgasbord of opportunities before Alderwood owners without charging any exchange company membership fees.

ABOUT ALDERWOOD GROUP

Since 1998, The Alderwood Group has provided financial, administrative and management services to vacation ownership properties, timeshare communities, homeowner associations and full-service resorts. The company partners and builds strategic alliances with its client Board of Directors and tailors services to meet the needs of its resort properties. Through its divisions – Alderwood Colorado Management, Alderwood Resort Management, and Alderwood Advantage – Alderwood designs tailored partnerships with its clients, building a reputation offering sensible management, effective sales positioning and strategic marketing while exceeding service and industry standards. For more information on how Alderwood can help you or your organization, visit http://AlderwoodGroup.com or contact us at (909) 878-2277 or (970) 879-2333.

ABOUT DIAL AN EXCHANGE

Today DAE is the world’s largest privately owned timeshare exchange provider with worldwide destination availability, an extensive network of corporate customers, and a nearly 450,000-member base. Offices are located in the United Kingdom, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, China, India, South Africa, Italy and now Eastern Europe. DAE membership is free and exchange fees are not charged until an exchange is confirmed. 

Other Recent Dial An Exchange Timeshare News:

• Timeshare Exchange Company Dial An Exchange Exceeds Projections
• DAE Timeshare Exchange Expanding Opportunities for Gold Advantage Members
• Timeshare Exchange Leader DAE, Invites Timeshare Owners to Share Their Holiday Message