Chennai, India (August 27, 2010) — Mahindra Holidays & Resort India Limited (MHRIL), India’s leading leisure hospitality services provider, today announced that its Member Relations Centre (MRC) has been certified with the COPC-2000® CSP Global Standard by the Customer Operations Performance Centre Inc. This makes MHRIL the first vacation ownership company in the world to get the certification.

PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY: August 27, 2010 — Industry studies over many decades suggest that about 85% of TS owners using their time vacationing at their home resort or globe trotting to exotic destinations worldwide are ‘happy-campers’ so I was a little perplexed to learn that is not the case for owners who hail from Saudi Arabia. [Read More...]

CHICAGO, IL (August 27, 2010) — (This is an amended version of a press release originally published on Aug. 24 and removes a reference to a rating action on a privately placed class of notes.)
Fitch Ratings has taken rating actions on the notes issued by various Sierra Timeshare Receivables transactions as detailed below:
Sierra Timeshare 2005-1 [...]

Published daily M-F. Sales Tip of the Day: REMEMBER: In some parts of the TS universe the ‘high-season’ is ending in a few weeks, in other parts of the world ‘the-season’ is right around the corner. All over the planet industry Pros are sitting around their favorite watering holes discussing how good this ’season’ was or how good the upcoming ’season’ will (or will not) be! (Read More) TODAY’S VIDEO: Dave Matthews Band — Time Of The Season (Live)

Miami, FL – August 2010 – Timeshare software providers, SPI Software, announced their vice-president of sales, Matt Brosious (pictured), will participate as a speaker at the August 29-31, 2010 VOASA conference being held in Durban, South Africa. Brosious is scheduled to speak on the subject of, “Positioning Your Brand and Social Media,” beginning at 8:15 [...]

Published daily M-F. Sales Tip of the Day: REMEMBER: Most sales centers still use the T/O system and although that process has some merit a drawback to a T/O sales lines is that it often leads to the notion that it is the ‘closer’ who seals the deal. Although being a ‘closer’ is admirable, requires great talent and they are the ones who get the signatures, etc., there would be nothing to ‘close’ in the first place if it weren’t for the front-end reps delivering a stellar sales presentation. (Read More) TODAY’S VIDEO: The incredible teamwork of Cirque du Soleil – Aerial High Bar Act (Alegria)

ORLANDO, FL (August 26, 2010) — Wyndham Vacation Ownership, the world’s largest vacation ownership company and a member of the Wyndham Worldwide family of companies (NYSE:WYN), has announced it has entered into an exclusive sales and marketing agreement at Reunion Resort. Under this agreement…

Overland Park, KS (August 25, 2010) –- For the third consecutive year, employees of Global Connections, Inc. (GCI) (www.exploregci.com), a nationally respected travel club, helped to raise money to benefit Quest To Walk, an exercise-based spinal cord injury recovery center founded by one of its employees.
Global Connections staff members, vendors and company friends aided the [...]

London (August 25, 2010) –- Interval International, a prominent worldwide provider of vacation services and an operating segment of Interval Leisure Group (Nasdaq: IILG), announced the affiliation of Multiresidence de l’Elysee in Paris, France. This typically Parisian property occupies a six-storey building in the 8th arrondissement on the right bank of the River Seine, close [...]

United Arab Emirates (August 25, 2010) — Range Hospitality, a dynamic, progressive and innovative institution focused on hospitality and real estate, has launched the Al Rawdatain Gardens development in Iraq’s pilgrimage centre, Karbala, to cater to the significant shortage of accommodation.