Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Exploria Resorts was recently presented with RCI’s highly prestigious award, RCI® President’s Club Award. This award is given to very select RCI affiliated resorts, and only the highest performing resorts are even considered for it. These resorts must already be an RCI Gold Crown rated brand, and with more than 4,500 affiliated resorts, there is a lot of competition for this title.
Monday, March 21, 2016
Leader in luxury lodging, Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, LLC, has just announced they will be opening their first resort property in Bermuda in the year 2018. This resort will be managed with George’s Bay Hotel Ltd. and George’s Bay Residences Ltd. under a long-term agreement that Ritz-Carlton has made.
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
It’s been a great handful of award-winning years for La Cabana Beach Resort and Casino. 2015 marked the fifth year in a row that the Aruba resort won the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence; in 2014 the resort achieved the highest level of certification by EarthCheck for it’s outstanding environmentally friendly practices. [Read more…]
Monday, January 11, 2016
Previously a member of the hotel section of Starwood North America, Westin St. John will soon become a member of Starwood Vacation Ownership with their upcoming transformation into a vacation ownership resort. Come the year 2017, the make-over will be complete and this once-hotel will be a vacation ownership resort composed of deluxe villa timeshare units.
Currently, Westin St. John has a total of 96 hotel rooms. When renovations begin next week, those rooms with be reduced to 45 to allow guests to visit the resort during the year-long revamping. In time, those will likely become villas as well, once the other rooms have been transformed into villa units. There is also room for the resort to expand in the upcoming years as business has been booming, and there is more customer demand to purchase vacation ownership properties.
Director of Operations for Westin St. John, Sam Hugli, talked about the industry wide shift to vacation ownership, saying, “You’re basically a part-time owner of the unit. Vacation ownership units give customers more flexibility to travel to other locations” (more so than traditional timeshare).
Changing the model of the resort will also lengthen the length of the resort’s season. Summer months are traditionally slow in this area, but now customers will be forced to purchase their vacation weeks during this time as more popular weeks fill up.
Read more about the changes to come at Westin St. John here.
