Archive for November 2009

Holiday Inn Club Vacations at Orange Lake Resorts Selects Winter Park Construction For $16.6 Million Refurbishment

Nov 30th, 2009 | By Admin | Category: Design, Refurbishment, Software, etc., Miscellaneous News

ORLANDO, FL, December 1, 2009 – Winter Park Construction (WPC), one of Central Florida’s largest and most respected general contractors has recently been selected to direct a $16.6 million refurbishment at the 1,450-acre, Kissimmee-based Holiday Inn Club Vacations at Orange Lake Resort as well as two of their other Holiday Inn Club Vacations resorts in [...]



Fractional Ownership Conference 2010 to be principally sponsored by Registry Collection

Nov 29th, 2009 | By Admin | Category: Associations and Events, Destination Clubs, Fractional, PRCs

London, November 29, 2009– Fractional Life is delighted to announce Registry Collection as headline sponsors for Fractional Summit 2010, Europe’s largest business to business fractional real estate conference taking place 18-19 February 2010 at the prestigious Marriott London, Grosvenor Square.
Building on the success of 2009’s event which attracted over 210 delegates from 23 countries, Fractional [...]



International Timeshare Consolidators of WA Leaving Sellers High and Dry

Nov 28th, 2009 | By Admin | Category: Legal Issues, Timeshare Fraud, Timeshare Resales/Rentals

Seattle, WA, November 28, 2009 – Washington State’s Better Business Bureau has issued a warning to consumers advising caution if dealing with a company named International Timeshare Consolidators. The BBB has received multiple complaints about ITC; recent reports indicate that the company has a pattern of leaving timeshare sellers high and dry.
BBB officials said they’ve [...]



TRIDENT BUSINESS MANAGEMENT NAMES NEW ADVISORY PARTNERS

Nov 25th, 2009 | By Admin | Category: Management, Miscellaneous News, People

Scottsdale, AZ, November 25, 2009 – Jim Danz RRP and Bill Tsao, Managing Partners of Trident Business Management, have recently named two additional Advisory Partners to their team, joining other respected executives within the lodging and timeshare sectors of the leisure industry.
Newly selected Advisory Partners Frank A. Morrisroe and Gordon R. Bloeser have been chosen [...]



Spanish Police Arrest 22 For Alleged Timeshare Fraud

Nov 24th, 2009 | By Admin | Category: Europe and UK, Legal Issues, Timeshare Fraud

MADRID, Spain, November 24, 2009- Spain, which has led the pack in timeshare and holiday club fraud in recent years, is finally cracking down. In their latest effort to stem the fraud, Spanish police announced on Nov. 23 that they have arrested 22 people in the southern city of Malaga and on Tenerife in the [...]



The Villa Group Announces Updates on Loreto Projects

Nov 23rd, 2009 | By Admin | Category: Mexico & Latin America

CABO SAN LUCAS, BCS, MX, November 23, 2009– Owen Perry, a partner in the highly successful “Villa Group”, has announced a number of updates in its Loreto, Baja Sur, Mexico projects.
Scheduled for a mid-November opening will be the Hotel Santa Fe, a 125 room hotel in downtown Loreto; its sister property, also owned by the [...]



ePercipio Inks Deal with Hilton Grand Vacations Company, LLC

Nov 22nd, 2009 | By Admin | Category: Miscellaneous News

Park City, UT, Nov. 22, 2009 – ePercipio, the next generation software as a service (“SaaS”) provider of media-rich, multi-dimensional e-learning solutions, has announced the consummation of a multi-year agreement to provide its highly sophisticated e-learning platform and selected intellectual property content to Hilton Grand Vacations Company, LLC.
According to Shari Levitin, Chief Executive Officer of [...]



OPINION: Nice Site, But…

Nov 21st, 2009 | By Admin | Category: OPINION

November 21, 2009– Dear Editor: Nice site, but lose the red, it’s a real distraction not to say a downer. It interferes with my concentration. And the press releases are good, but I’d like more inside stuff that doesn’t come from the companies themselves, more of your “hot stuff” kind of thing, those are good [...]



Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office Obtains a Temporary Restraining Order Against Florida Man for Defrauding Timeshare Owners

Nov 21st, 2009 | By Admin | Category: Legal Issues, Timeshare Fraud

Boston, MA, November 21, 2009– On November 18 Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office filed a lawsuit and obtained a temporary restraining order against Jeffrey Riebman, doing business as “Timeshare Advocates,” for allegedly devising a scam to defraud owners of timeshare properties in Dennisport.
According to the complaint, filed in Suffolk Superior Court, Riebman falsely represented to [...]



Arthur Goddard and Alan Hill Jailed for Timeshare Holiday Fraud in Wales

Nov 20th, 2009 | By Admin | Category: Europe and UK, Legal Issues, Timeshare Fraud

Denbighshire, North Wales, November 18, 2009– According to an article in the BBC, two men have each been jailed for two-and-a-half years after 50 people were conned out of more than £460,000 in a timeshare holiday scam.
Arthur Goddard, 60, ran Graig Park Village Ltd, based in Denbighshire, with sales director Alan Hill, 51. Goddard must [...]