Articles Tagged With "ARDA"

Steve Brettholtz, president and shareholder of Myers, Brettholtz & Company, PA, Certified Public Accountants & Business Consultants, served as moderator and speaker at this year’s American Resort Development Association’s Annual Convention and Exposition in Orlando from March 27 to 31.

April 26, 2011 in Featured News, NA, News, North America Featured News, North America News by Susan Knox

Timeshare Resort Management Company Covers the Bases by Winning Top Honors on Four Key Resort Management Functions.

April 26, 2011 in Grand Pacific Resort Management, NA, News, North America News, Toolbar News by Steve Luba

WPC was named the winner of the prestigious ACE Community Service Award, which recognizes outstanding community contributions by an ARDA member or organization.

April 20, 2011 in ARDA, NA, News, North America News, Toolbar News, Winter Park Construction by Steve Luba

In its very first year of entry for the annual American Resort Development Association (ARDA) Awards, Dominican Republic-based Lifestyle Holidays Vacation Club (LHVC) was honored with a total of five nominations.

April 13, 2011 in ARDA, Featured News, Lifestyle Holidays Vacation Club, NA, News, North America Featured News, North America News, Toolbar News, Uncategorized by Steve Luba

Receives Top Honors at Gala Ceremony.

April 12, 2011 in ARDA, Interval International Press Releases, NA, News, North America News, Toolbar News, Westgate Resorts by Steve Luba

Dennis M. Ducharme, RRP, President of InnSeason Resorts, based on Cape Cod (MA), has been appointed Chairman of the American Resort Development Association’s Northeast Chapter. Nominated by the Chapter’s Executive Committee, ARDA’s regional chairpersons are jointly appointed by the President and Chief Executive Officer, Howard Nusbaum, and the ARDA Board of Directors.

April 12, 2011 in ARDA, Company, Featured News, NA, News, North America Featured News, North America News by Susan Knox

Three Top Awards Bestowed on Private Vacation Club.

April 8, 2011 in ARDA, Club Intrawest, NA, News, North America News, Toolbar News by Steve Luba

Bluegreen Corporation won three gold ARDY awards and 15 silver ARDY awards during 2011 ARDA Ceremony in Orlando, Florida.

April 7, 2011 in ARDA, Bluegreen, NA, News, North America News, Toolbar News by Steve Luba

This year’s theme, the “Year of the Consumer,” was emphasized throughout all educational forums, workshops, and sessions, including how to leverage digital relationships, ensuring consumer protections for the secondary marketplace, and enhancing sales and marketing practices.

April 7, 2011 in ARDA, Company, NA, News, North America News by Susan Knox

Wyndham Vacation Ownership, the world’s largest vacation ownership company, was recognized by the American Resort Development Association with five prestigious ARDY Awards.

April 6, 2011 in NA, News, North America News, Toolbar News, Wyndham Vacation Ownership by Steve Luba

The American Resort Development Association (ARDA) recognized their top industry leaders at the annual Awards Gala of the 2011 Convention & Exposition, held in Orlando, Florida. The evening event, sponsored by Holiday Systems International (HSI), showcases the outstanding accomplishments among individuals, teams, resorts, and companies in a variety of categories.

April 5, 2011 in ARDA, Company, NA, News, North America News by Susan Knox

Multiple Tapestry Resorts Employees Recognized at Gala.

April 1, 2011 in ARDA, NA, News, North America News, ResortCom International, Toolbar News by Steve Luba

RCI, the global leader in vacation exchange and one of the Wyndham Worldwide family of brands (NYSE: WYN), received four awards last night at the American Resort Development Association (ARDA) 2011 Awards Gala Dinner.

March 31, 2011 in AP, Asia Pacific Featured News, Asia Pacific News, Company, EU, Europe & Middle East Featured News, Europe & Middle East News, Featured News, NA, News, North America Featured News, North America News, RCI, RCI Press Releases, SA, South Africa Featured News, South Africa News, Wyndham Worldwide by Susan Knox

Don Harrill, president and CEO of Orange Lake Resorts, home to Holiday Inn Club Vacations, was officially elected as Chairman of the American Resort Development Association (ARDA) during the recent ARDA Convention and Exposition in Orlando. ARDA is the national trade association representing the vacation ownership industry.

March 30, 2011 in ARDA, Holiday Inn Club Vacations, NA, News, North America News by Susan Knox

Study the financial statements of any interval vacation resort developer, and what is their largest asset? Their receivables. What principal factor determines the profitability of their sales? Receivables performance.

March 30, 2011 in Featured Articles, NA, North America Articles by Susan Knox

RCI, the global leader in vacation exchange and one of the Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE: WYN) family of brands, announced the affiliation of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic during the American Resort Development Association (ARDA) 2011 Convention and Exposition.

March 29, 2011 in Company, Featured News, NA, News, North America Featured News, North America News, RCI, RCI Press Releases, Wyndham Worldwide by Susan Knox

As an industry, we should congratulate ourselves for creating the timeshare product. During the past 30+ years, vacation ownership has enabled millions of families to enjoy quality vacations at more than 7,000 resorts in almost 100 countries around the world. That’s a ton of happy vacation memories!

March 29, 2011 in Featured Articles, NA, North America Articles by Susan Knox

As part of this new affiliation, Anantara Vacation Club owners who become RCI members will have access to RCI’s network of the more than 4,000 affiliated resorts around the globe and have access to a broad range of vacation experiences.

March 28, 2011 in AP, Asia Pacific News, Company, EU, Europe & Middle East News, News, RCI, RCI Press Releases by Susan Knox

RCI, the global leader in vacation exchange and one of the Wyndham Worldwide family of brands (NYSE: WYN), announced today at the American Resort Development Association (ARDA) 2011 Convention and Exposition that it added more than 100 newly affiliated resorts to its network in 2010.

March 28, 2011 in AP, Asia Pacific News, EU, Europe & Middle East News, NA, News, North America News, RCI, RCI Press Releases, SA, South Africa News by Susan Knox

A large turnout, talk of a rebounding travel market and the aftershocks following the U.S. mid-term elections dominated discussion at the American Resort Development Association (ARDA) Fall Conference, held at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, D.C., during November 10-12, 2010.

March 28, 2011 in ARDA, Featured Articles, NA, North America Articles by Susan Knox

ICE continues the decade long tradition of kicking off the American Resort Development Association convention with ICE Breaker, the party of the year. This year’s party will be held at Orlando hot spot Cuba Libre.

March 28, 2011 in Company, NA, News, North America News by Susan Knox

LeisureLink, the leading distribution and revenue management provider for specialty lodging suppliers, is focused on giving timeshare resorts new options to increase tour traffic and online revenues.  LeisureLink is exhibiting at the American Resort Development Association (ARDA) Annual Convention and Expo 2011 to discuss and demonstrate its revenue-generating services including their forward-looking revenue management solution, Active [...]

March 22, 2011 in ARDA, LeisureLink, NA, News, North America News, Toolbar News by Steve Luba

Club Intrawest, the private vacation club which recently received five finalist placements in the American Resort Development Association (ARDA) Annual Award Program has developed its own lexicon when it comes to talking about its community of Members and their shared ownership of beautifully crafted Vacation Homes across Canada, the United States and Mexico.

March 16, 2011 in Club Intrawest, Company, NA, News, North America News by Susan Knox

The Company Negotiates Timeshare Exchanges Through RCI, Interval International

March 4, 2011 in NA, News, North America News, Royal Resorts, Toolbar News by Steve Luba

Private Vacation Club Positioned Highly in ARDA Awards Program.

March 2, 2011 in ARDA, Club Intrawest, NA, News, North America News, Toolbar News by Steve Luba

Resales has been a hotly debated topic for nearly as long as the existence of the timeshare industry itself. Whether it’s the need for a healthy resale industry, the process itself or the need to strengthen consumer protection, resales continues to be a lightning rod for the shared ownership industry.

February 18, 2011 in Company, EU, Europe & Middle East Articles, Featured Articles, Travel & Leisure Group, Worldwide Timeshare Hypermarket by Susan Knox

The ARDA-ROC Website Provides Federal and State Policy Information Affecting Timeshare Industry.

February 16, 2011 in ARDA, NA, News, North America News, Toolbar News by Steve Luba

Robb & Stucky Interiors has been named a finalist in the Resort Design Division of the American Resort Development Association’s (ARDA) annual Awards Program.

February 15, 2011 in Company, Featured News, NA, News, North America Featured News, North America News, Robb & Stucky by Susan Knox

Travel & Leisure Group, a leading European Timeshare Resale Brokerage, brought the world of Private Timeshare Sales to the Times Destinations Holiday & Travel Show, Earls Court, London last week with overwhelming success.

February 11, 2011 in Company, EU, Europe & Middle East News, News, Travel & Leisure Group by Susan Knox

Leading vacation ownership companies and service providers have signed on as Signature Sponsors of the 2011 American Resort Development Association (ARDA) Convention and Exposition at the Orlando World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida.

February 10, 2011 in ARDA, Company, Diamond Resorts International, Holiday Inn Club Vacations, Interval International Press Releases, NA, News, North America News, ResortCom International, TimeShareWare, Westgate Resorts, Wyndham Vacation Ownership by Susan Knox

ARDA Unravels the Top Trends of 2011.

February 9, 2011 in ARDA, NA, News, North America News, Toolbar News by Steve Luba

An exclusive interview with Jim Lewis, president of Disney Vacation Development, Inc. and chairman of the board for the American Resort Development Association (ARDA) on Disney Vacation Club’s upcoming Aulani resort, DVC’s ties to the new Disney Dream, and the state of the shared ownership industry.

February 8, 2011 in A-List Interviews, Company, Disney Vacation Club, Featured Articles, NA, North America Articles by Susan Knox

The American Resort Development Association’s Board of Directors voted to unite with Women in the Industry to strengthen and grow both organizations.

February 4, 2011 in ARDA, NA, News, North America News, Toolbar News, Women in the Industry (WIN) by Steve Luba

The conference, held at the Marriott Cypress Harbour Resort in Orlando, Florida, brought together some of the timeshare industry’s leading professional women to discuss issues pertaining to their unique roles within the industry.

February 2, 2011 in NA, News, North America News, Toolbar News, Women in the Industry (WIN) by Steve Luba

Dan Lubner, President of the Hospitality Design Division of Robb & Stucky Interiors, (www.RobbStucky.com) has recently been named to a three-year term to the prestigious Suppliers Council of the American Resort Development Association (ARDA).

January 28, 2011 in ARDA, Company, Featured News, NA, News, North America Featured News, North America News, Robb & Stucky by Susan Knox

More than 120 executives and personnel from Interval-affiliated resorts in the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central and South America heard the latest about Interval and vacation ownership from industry leaders.

December 17, 2010 in Company, Featured News, Interval International Press Releases, NA, News, North America Featured News, North America News, Westgate Resorts by Steve Luba

According to the 2010 State of the Timeshare Industry: United States Study, the average sales price of timeshare products held steady for the year despite a turbulent economic environment, as developers expanded options to the ways in which existing timeshare owners can buy intervals.

November 10, 2010 in ARDA, Company, NA, News, North America News by Susan Knox

SPM Resorts, Inc., a full-service professional timeshare management company, engaged Suzzi Albrycht of S3A, Inc. to oversee IT functions, manage the technical design and implementation of the new website (www.spmresorts.com) and provide support to the owner services division.

November 2, 2010 in NA, News, North America News by Susan Knox

Opportunity exists for the timeshare and fractional industry in the Canadian marketplace according to a consumer survey released at the Canadian Resort Development Association’s Resort Development Summit in Toronto, Canada.

October 18, 2010 in Global News, Merlin Software, News, North America News, Toolbar News by Steve Luba

Two full days of sessions at the Vacation Ownership Investment Conference in Orlando, Florida, over Tuesday and Wednesday gave about 400 attendees a high-altitude view of the status of the timeshare and fractional industries and new strategies to be used in order to meet the needs of potential shared-ownership consumers. First, the good news. Tourism [...]

October 7, 2010 in Global News, News, North America News, Toolbar News, VOIC by Steve Luba

Interval Leisure Group Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer Craig M. Nash talks about how exchange giant Interval International faced the economic downturn right as it became part of a new public company – and how it is faring as the industry begins to climb out of it.

September 24, 2010 in AP, Asia Pacific Articles, Featured Articles by Susan Knox

Myrtle Beach tourism is on the rebound and well on its way out of the recession. That’s the message given to a gathering of about 100 industry professionals during the Carolinas regional conference of the American Resort Development Association, held at the Marina Inn at Grande Dunes in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The area had [...]

September 22, 2010 in Global News, News, North America News, Toolbar News by Steve Luba

When traveling to popular beach destinations in Mexico, such as the Riviera Maya, Puerto Vallarta and Los Cabos, return visitors often switch their commonplace style hotel stay to a more permanent investment, such as that offered by long term vacation ownership plans

August 12, 2010 in EU, Europe & Middle East Articles, Featured Articles, Lloydshare, NA, North America Articles by Susan Knox

With the meltdown of the financial markets in 2008, the residual carnage has been widespread and painfully felt by all of us. Many developers, management companies and service providers have closed down or for the foreseeable future, put on hold or severely curtailed plans for new resorts and project developments.

August 12, 2010 in Featured Articles, NA, North America Articles by Susan Knox

Plantation Resort at Myrtle Beach, a Premier South Carolina Vacation Destination, recently contracted to install the entire TimeShareWare Enterprise suite. Plantation Resort also contracted with TimeShareWare to interface with its credit card and PBX systems.

August 5, 2010 in NA, News, North America News, TimeShareWare by Susan Knox

Liberty’s Resort Finance lending correspondent, Wellington Financial, says the bank closed timeshare loans in February for Grand Timber Lodge and Grand Lodge at Peak 7 projects.

July 13, 2010 in News by

Lennon Communications Group has announced the launch of its new corporate website. The new site, www.lennoncommunications.com, has been crafted to describe the 25-year old company’s primary services of public relations (PR), marketing and advertising with a specialty in the timeshare industry.

July 13, 2010 in News by

Jim Danz RRP and Bill Tsao, Managing Partners of Trident Business Management, have recently selected two new Advisory Partners for their organization, joining other respected executives within the lodging and timeshare sectors of the leisure industry.

June 17, 2010 in News by

Christel House International today announced that Geoff Ballotti, CEO of RCI, the global leader in vacation exchange and one of the Wyndham Worldwide family of brands (NYSE: WYN), has been appointed to the Christel House International Board of Directors.

June 10, 2010 in Featured News, News, RCI, RCI Press Releases by Admin

SPI Software, creators of timeshare software used for marketing, sales, mortgage and maintenance fee servicing, central reservations, property management and operations, is pleased to announce the appointment of Gordon McClendon, vice president of client services, to serve on the Federal Issues Committee of the American Resort Development Association (ARDA).

May 21, 2010 in News by