Canada timeshare

My trip to Vancouver for the CRDA Conference this week includes time spent with the great team at Aviawest. You may not know the Aviawest story, but it began in 1989, when Andrew Pearson spotted a piece of oceanfront property on the east coast of Vancouver Island, south of Parksville.

The 15-acre property, known as Pacific Shores, was being used as a campground and trailer park, but the visionary Pearsons saw so much more. With the help of investment partners, the Pearsons bought the land, and began developing condominiums there.

By 1991, they had realized that using the beautiful condos as vacation ownership property was a winning plan that would enable many vacationers to enjoy the beauty and serenity of this British Columbia destination. As pioneers in Fractional Ownership of Vacation homes, the Pearsons sold 1/10th interest in fee simple, deeded real estate. Soon they had sold all 50 shares of the property and had bought out their original investment partners.

Canada Timeshare with Aviawest

Today Pacific Shores Resort and Spa features themed floral gardens, a secluded beach, salmon fishing, a health club, outdoor heated thermal pools, complimentary kayaks, a full spa service and much, much more.

But Pacific Shores Resort is only a small part of the Pearson’s story. By 2002, Aviawest Resort Club was established offering vacation ownership through a multi-destination, real estate driven, vacation club. There are now six Aviawest properties in British Columbia, including the Parkside Victoria Resort and Spa in Victoria; Water’s Edge Resort at Pacific Rim in Ucluelet; The Pinnacle Lodge at Sun Peaks; the Rosewood Victoria Inn in Victoria; and Aviawest in Vancouver.

Follow these links to learn more about some of the opportunities in Aviawest timeshare resales.

The 2011 CRDA Resort Development Summit, has announced that Jim Madrid will be its Keynote Speaker. The Summit, conducted by the Canadian Resort Development Association (CRDA), is scheduled for April 27 – 29, 2011, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Vancouver, BC.

Jim Madrid is the founder of Entelechy Training and Development, a Human Performance firm based in California. Known as an advisor to CEO’s who want to optimize their performance, and that of their companies and their employees, Jim is widely respected as a speaker, consultant, author. His staff development programs and performance management systems are nationally recognized, making him a perfect person to kick off the CRDA event with its theme: Snap Out of It!

Ross Perlmutter, CRDA president and CEO, says, “We’re thrilled to have Jim speak at our event this year. His message to businesspeople is to “snap out of it!”, and that’s ultimately the theme of this year’s conference: to move past the negativity and refocus our collective efforts, energies and talents on getting back to what our industry does best.”

Registration for the conference has already begun, with “early bird” rates ending March 25.CRDA urges you, not to miss this event that will, “highlight the newest innovations in the shared ownership industry, and it could very possibly change your company’s direction forever.”

Click here to learn more about Canada timeshares and Canada timeshare resales.

René Cardinal has officially been announced as the new President of the timeshare group, Club Intrawest Resort Club Group, a division of Intrawest ULC.

As a part of Club Intrawest for more than ten years, Cardinal serves as a Director of the Canadian Resort Development Association (CRDA) and a trustee for ARDA, the American Resort Development Association, where he sits on the Finance Committee.

Prior to assuming the responsibilities of President of Club Intrawest, Cardinal was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Intrawest Resort Club Group, a position he will continue to hold.

Intrawest CEO, Bill Jensen says Intrawest is particularly excited about “the opportunities that we anticipate will come available over the next year. Given the new playing field in the vacation ownership market, our confidence in Club Intrawest’s solid track record of excellence makes us very optimistic about what lies ahead. René’s long term history with Club Intrawest and our organization’s strong team of seasoned professionals will enable us to create, direct and manage new growth as the Club expands its horizons.”

More on Club Intrawest Timeshare and Vacation Club

Club Intrawest is a private vacation club with destinations that include Canada timeshare, California timeshare, and Mexico timeshare, as well as access through Hilton Grand Vacations to Florida timeshare, Hawaii timeshare, and Las Vegas timeshare. Since opening its first timeshare resort in 1994, the company has grown to include eight resorts in Canada, with its Whistler ski destinations being many of the signature properties that come to mind when people think of Intrawest timeshare.

Club Intrawest is exclusively managed by Intrawest Resort Club Group. Intrawest ULC is controlled by funds managed by Fortress Investment Group LLC.

We thought you’d find this interview between Jason Tremblay of Sell My Timeshare NOW and Tim Wilson of AskMando.com very interesting. It was recorded in October during the CRDA Conference in Toronto and released just before the Thanksgiving holidays. (For more information about the conference see: CRDA Timeshare Conference and the Future of Canada Timeshare).

At the time of the interview, Jason had just finished his role earlier that day as part of the CRDA Conference’s speaking panel on the topic of timeshare on the secondary market. The panel spoke candidly about how timeshare resales are an issue for the entire industry in a forum called “Resale Forum, Where do we go from here?”

Here are some of the points made in this discussion:

• The secondary market for timeshares is real, growing, and not going away.
• It is time for the developers to pick a horse by choosing what service they either are going to establish or partner with to provide timeshare owners options regarding resales.
• The industry’s future requires that timeshare developers start working hand-in-hand with the resales companies; the time is now.

As Jason advises, timeshare developers can’t leave their owners to try to sort though the timeshare resale market on their own. Choosing to take no action is in fact, making a choice.

Sell My Timeshare NOW is proud to be an active part of both the Canadian and the US timeshare associations through CRDA (Canadian Resort Development Association) and ARDA (American Resort Development Association).