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Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, which includes Wyndham timeshare, has been ranked among the Top 100 greenest companies in America, according to Newsweek Magazine.

To establish the rankings, Newsweek looks at America’s 500 largest publically traded companies based upon number of employees, revenue, and market capitalization. Wyndham Worldwide and Wyndham timeshare ranked number 81 when evaluating factors such as regulatory compliance, toxic waste emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, environmental issues and policies, and use of natural resources.

Stephen P. Holmes, Wyndham Worldwide chairman and chief executive officer, says, “We are honored to be recognized by Newsweek as a national leader in sustainability. We are committed to conserving our natural resources, preserving our habitats and preventing pollution. With more than 70,000 locations in 100 countries, we can make a tremendous impact in our communities around the globe.”

Wyndham was evaluated in as part of the category: Media, Travel, and Leisure and within this group, ranked among the Top 10.

Congratulations, Wyndham timeshare, on working to achieve greater environmental responsibility and setting important new standards in the timeshare industry.

The magic of Disney Vacation Club timeshares is now on display in Long Island, New York at Disney Doorway to Dreams. Located inside the Roosevelt Field Mall, Disney Doorway to Dreams includes a full size, two-bedroom timeshare model that is based on the Disney Vacation Club Bay Lake Tower in Orlando.

A photo wall, videos, and touch-screen interactives, help give visitors to the timeshare showcase a fuller sense of the magic of becoming a Disney timeshare vacation property owner.

Disney Vacation Club Models Make it Easy to Explore Disney Timeshare

Howard C. Nusbaum, president and CEO of the American Resort Development Association (ARDA) says, “Disney Vacation Club has always been both a leader and an innovator in the timeshare industry. Offering full-scale model vacation villas in a mall setting is uniquely Disney and this new Disney Doorway to Dreams location makes it fun and exciting for families to learn about new and memorable ways to vacation.”

Click here to learn more about opportunities in Disney timeshare resales and rentals.

Disney already maintains a Doorway to Dreams timeshare showcase property in Chicago, Illinois at the Woodfield Mall.

Enjoy this video preview of Disney Doorway to Dreams at the Roosevelt Field Mall in Long Island:

I never give advice on the stock market or investing and I am not changing that position now, but I do want to share some interesting information about stock trends in the hotel and timeshare industry.

Despite most hotels seeing the bad economy drive room bookings down while most timeshare companies are feeling the credit squeeze clamp down on both new timeshare buyers and on the growth and expansion of resorts and properties, hotel and timeshare company stocks are taking a very interesting twist.

As The Money Times, which refers to stock trends by the hotel and timeshare industry as a ‘Bizarro Market,’ says:

“Weirdly enough, despite the terrible economy and relatively poor performances by many in the industry, the market is eating up hotel stocks as if they were the best continental breakfast investors have ever tasted… At a time when much of the market is feeling worse than it did during the Great Depression, all but one of these major hospitality stocks has doubled from their yearly lows. And while not all of them have posted actual losses, none of them has accomplished what you’d expect to see when a stock jumps as much as these have (which is) solid revenue and earnings growth.”

I offer no explanation, and leave you to draw your own interpretations.

Source: Yahoo! Finance

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Starwood Capital CEO Barry Sternlicht offers some interesting insights about the commercial real estate market as an investment during the down economy. You can watch the interview in this clip from the Fox Business Channel.

And before you view the clip, here’s a little perspective on how Starwood Capital fits into the bigger picture with Starwood hotels and Starwood timeshares. Historically, Starwood Capital is known as an aggressive and successful acquirers of individual hotels, hotel companies, and timeshare resorts worldwide. From their website: “Starwood Capital is well known for its 1995 acquisition and subsequent recapitalization, reorganization and expansion of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT “Starwood Hotels”), a Fortune 500 company, with ownership of brands such as Westin, Sheraton, W Hotels, The St. Regis, Le Meridien, The Luxury Collection and Four Points by Sheraton. Mr. Sternlicht, as Chairman and CEO of Starwood Hotels between 1995 and May of 2005, led the transformation of Starwood Hotels from an overleveraged, liquidating REIT into a thriving global enterprise of more than 115,000 employees, with a total enterprise value in excess of $18 billion, including more than 800 hotels system-wide in 80 countries.”