MANUEL ANTONIO PARK, COSTA RICA (Sept. 28, 2010) — The team behind Palazzo Park Hotel & Residences, Costa Rica’s first sustainable luxury beachfront hotel and condominium, has announced plans for a North American home show tour.

Improvements to Include New Holes With Incredible Ocean Views
LIHUE, HI (Sept. 24, 2010) — One of golf’s greatest players spent hours on the oceanfront Kauai Lagoons golf course on a hot summer day, but he didn’t tee up or swing a club. Instead, golf legend Jack Nicklaus returned to the Garden Isle to map out [...]

MIAMI, FL (Sept 28, 2010) — Interval International, a prominent worldwide provider of vacation services and an operating segment of Interval Leisure Group (Nasdaq: IILG), will sponsor the 12th annual Vacation Ownership Investment Conference on October 4 to 6 at The Peabody Orlando.
Interval created the conference in 1998 to educate prospective entrants, lenders, and government [...]

Published daily M-F. Sales Tip of the Day: REMEMBER: Segmenting the presentation is paramount to a successful outcome and upon the conclusion of each phase during the sales process it is always important to ask the prospect a question (aka: a trial close) in such a manner that they are likely to drop their guard and answer fully and truthfully. (Read More)
TODAY’S VIDEO: Huey Lewis & the News – If This Is It

Travel En Vogue has added the Ritz Carlton Residence Club San Francisco to their diverse collection of luxury vacation rentals in Colorado, California, the Caribbean, and Mexico.
VAIL, CO (September 27, 2010) – TravelEnVogue.com is proud to announce the Ritz Carlton Residence Club San Francisco as an additional destination to their Ritz Carlton and Four Seasons [...]

PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY: There are a lot of really funny laws still on the books throughout the USA and the rest of the world. Many of them are old laws that have simply never been repealed or updated, others are current. Here are some of my favorites from the USA (most of them have been [...]

Published Every Saturday. A CONTROLLING DECISION: This is big news. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has handed down a decision that is likely to reverberate within the timeshare industry throughout the states in its jurisdiction. That’s even though the case in point has nothing to do with timesharing. (Read More)

Published daily M-F. Sales Tip of the Day: REMEMBER: Even today, after 40 + years of selling intervals, too many developers (worldwide) still send their new owners out the door with only a bundle of legaleez (gibberish) papers… (Read More)
TODAY’S VIDEO: Phantom of the Opera – Music of the Night

NEW YORK (Sept. 24, 2010) — Centerbridge Capital Partners, L.P. and its related entities (“Centerbridge”) announced the acquisition of the resort finance business of GMAC Commercial Finance LLC (“GMAC”), a subsidiary of Ally Financial Inc., primarily consisting of a $1.0 billion portfolio of loans related to timeshare resorts throughout North America. In connection with [...]

Published Every Friday. September 24, 2010 — There will always be a ‘naysayer’ around every corner on just about every subject under the Sun and there is certainly no shortage of those good folks when it comes to suggesting every sales guest should be told straight up front that they are being invited to a timeshare SALES presentation! [...]