Articles Tagged With "South Africa"

Interval International, a prominent worldwide provider of vacation services and an operating business of Interval Leisure Group (Nasdaq: IILG), announced the affiliation of Bantry Bay International Vacation Resort, near Cape Town, South Africa.

November 14, 2011 in Featured News, Interval International, News, News, News Featured, SA, Toolbar News by Steve Luba

With a proven track record of delivering integrated resorts with international hotel brands, IFA Hotels & Resorts (IFA HR) is one of the few global real estate developers that has a demonstrated ability to sell, develop and asset manage the full range of real estate vacation products to an international audience.

November 5, 2011 in Articles, Articles Featured, Company, IFA Hotels & Resorts, SA by Susan Knox

In 2010, a total of 2,216,994 foreign tourists visited South Africa. In comparison, there were 1,885,997 foreign tourists that visited the country in 2009.

November 1, 2011 in Articles, Articles Featured, SA by Susan Knox

The Riviera, a leading holiday resort on the prime Sea Point waterfront, has announced the signature of a management agreement with First Resorts, South Africa’s leading resort management company.

September 19, 2011 in Company, Featured News, First Resorts, News, News, News Featured, SA by Susan Knox

Interval International, a prominent worldwide provider of vacation services and an operating business of Interval Leisure Group (Nasdaq: IILG), is reorganizing its Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia (EMEAA) sales operations to capitalize on its success in these shared ownership markets.

July 11, 2011 in AP, Company, EU, Featured News, Featured News, Featured News, Featured News, Interval International, NA, News, News, News, News, News, News Featured, SA by Susan Knox

The timeshare and fractional industry’s leading independent multi-media information provider is expanding its sales and account management department due to new product development.

July 7, 2011 in AP, Company, EU, Featured News, Featured News, Featured News, Featured News, Global News, NA, News, News, News, News, News, News Featured, Perspective Magazine, SA by Susan Knox

The Palace Resort and Spa received the Best Refurbishment Award by VOASA “the vacation industry watchdog” in a ceremony held in June. Situated in a prime location along Durban’s beachfront, the resort is midway through its 5-year R20 million refurbishment programme.

July 1, 2011 in Company, Featured News, First Resorts, News, News, News Featured, SA by Susan Knox

World’s largest vacation exchange company reaffirms its commitment to the region where it has been operating for almost 30 years.

June 10, 2011 in News, News, RCI, SA, Toolbar News by Steve Luba

Opens Regional Sales Office in Cape Town.

May 31, 2011 in Interval International, News, News, SA, Southern Sun, Toolbar News, VOASA by Steve Luba

Dial An Exchange has been in business since 1997 as a relatively new addition to the exchange space globally, but an even newer addition to the South African market specifically, only having done business here for the past 4 years.

May 23, 2011 in Articles, Articles Featured, Company, Dial An Exchange, Dial An Exchange Magazine Articles, SA by Susan Knox

While the shared vacation industry in many countries around the world started 2011 slightly bruised and worse for wear due to the financial rollercoaster of 2010, the shared vacation industry in South Africa has emerged with some industry players announcing record breaking sales figures and increases in employment for 2010 and have kicked-off 2011 on a very enthusiastic high note.

May 21, 2011 in Articles, Articles Featured, SA, VOASA by Susan Knox

In South Africa, the premier event that enables RCI to bring its valued affiliates together to celebrate Club partners, Developers, Resorts and Sales Professionals is the RCI OSCAS Gala evening.

May 20, 2011 in Articles, Articles Featured, RCI, SA by Susan Knox

Teaching is changing and, in many ways becoming a much more difficult job, but having access to technology can really make a difference. This is according to Ronald Fortune, high-school principal of Christel House South Africa (CHSA), an independent school that provides scholarships and a holistic education to poor children in Cape Town.

May 19, 2011 in Articles, Articles Featured, Christel House, SA by Susan Knox

Restructuring resorts and steady consumer growth set the stage for an optimistic future.

May 17, 2011 in Articles, Articles Featured, SA by Susan Knox

Chaka’s Rock Chalets voted Top Destination at the Sugar Rush, Ilembe Enterprise North Coast Big 5 Competition award ceremony held on 3 May 2011.

May 16, 2011 in First Resorts, News, News, SA by Susan Knox

As a platinum sponsor of this year’s Vacation Ownership Association of Southern Africa (VOASA) conference, Interval International, a prominent worldwide provider of vacation services and an operating business of Interval Leisure Group (Nasdaq: IILG), is committed to the advancement of shared holiday ownership in this region.

May 16, 2011 in Company, Interval International, News, News, SA by Susan Knox

La Cote d’Azur luxury Margate beach resort wins Top Self-catering Resort at the 2011 AA Travel Guides American Express Accommodation Awards at the annual Indaba in Durban.

May 16, 2011 in Featured News, First Resorts, News, News, News Featured, SA by Susan Knox

Perspective Magazine and Brand Tango work together to create a new brand for the inaugural Perspective Magazine Awards, to be held in conjunction with GNEX 2011.

April 13, 2011 in AP, Brand Tango, Company, EU, Featured News, Featured News, Featured News, Featured News, NA, News, News, News, News, News, News Featured, Perspective Magazine, SA by Susan Knox

Francis Taylor, CEO of Dial An Exchange, will examine the current state of the exchange business during Perspective Magazine’s timeshare and fractional ownership industry networking event.

April 7, 2011 in AP, Company, Dial An Exchange, Dial An Exchange Press Releases, EU, Featured News, Featured News, Featured News, Featured News, NA, News, News, News, News, News, News Featured, Perspective Magazine, SA by Susan Knox

First Resorts is one of the largest resort management companies in South Africa and, following global travel trends in the hospitality industry, have partnered with Cellu-Beauty, one of the largest chains of luxury spas in the country.

April 6, 2011 in Company, Featured News, First Resorts, News, News, News Featured, SA by Susan Knox

October 2010 saw the hugely successful AOCAP draw some of the world’s leading authorities together at the fivestar Millennium Resort in the beautiful location of Patong on the island of Phuket, Thailand.

March 31, 2011 in AP, Articles, Articles Featured by Susan Knox

Preferred Residences®, a hospitality-branded membership and exchange programme for luxury shared ownership resorts offered by an operating business of Interval Leisure Group (Nasdaq: IILG), announced today that Club Privé at Cape Royale Luxury Hotel and Residence has joined its network. Located in Cape Town, South Africa, Club Privé is a new shared ownership offering within this stately hotel.

March 29, 2011 in Company, Featured News, News, News, News Featured, Preferred Residences, SA by Susan Knox

South Africa has been a hidden jewel on the Dark Continent for a number of years, but it is only recently that the nation has arrived onto the global stage in terms of tourism and the significant economic development associated with international visitors.

March 27, 2011 in Articles, Articles Featured, Company, Interval International, SA by Susan Knox

Club Leisure Group’s stable of specialised vacation clubs provides accommodation in hotels, self-catering apartments, chalets, game parks and luxury cruising…and golf.

March 26, 2011 in Articles, Articles Featured, Company, SA by Susan Knox

The Hideaways Club, a property investment company specialising in the management of a collection of international luxury property Funds, picked up two prestigious awards in the first two months of 2011.

March 15, 2011 in Company, EU, Featured News, News, News, News Featured, The Hideaways Club by Susan Knox

Statistics SA has released tourism figures for December 2010 and the results point to a shift in traditional source markets, with some serious growth in Asian-Pacific visitors.

March 2, 2011 in News, News, SA, Toolbar News by Steve Luba

Perspective TV, as the platform will be known, will include a number of channels which are to be launched periodically over the next 24 months starting with a currently unnamed channel aimed at consumers and available via the Owners Perspective Magazine website which is on schedule to be launched as a Beta version by the end of Q1 and fully operational by end of Q2.

February 21, 2011 in Articles, Articles Featured, Company, EU, Owners Perspective Magazine, Perspective Magazine by Susan Knox

The first annual conference under RDO’s new name turned out to be a first for a number of reasons. Fractional ownership and social media were high on the agenda for the first time ever and the “new” setting was the five-star Don Carlos Resort in Marbella.

February 18, 2011 in Articles, Articles Featured, Company, EU by Susan Knox

Christel House is showing others how it should be done, with its 2010 matriculants achieving a one hundred percent pass rate, an increase from their 97.8 percent pass rate in 2009. A remarkable feat given that most children from similar backgrounds never reach matric at all.

January 21, 2011 in Christel House, Company, News, News by Susan Knox

GPEA Ltd, the parent company of global estate agency Fine & Country and The Guild of Professional Estate Agents, has formed a joint venture company with property PR specialist P1 Communications Ltd.

January 19, 2011 in Company, EU, News, News, P1 Communications by Susan Knox

Dial An Exchange (DAE), one of the world’s largest independent timeshare exchange organizations has recently launched a new expansion of benefits for DAE’s Gold Advantage members. Gold Advantage is the premium membership offered by Dial An Exchange, (www.daelive.com) a free membership is also available.

January 11, 2011 in AP, Company, Dial An Exchange, Dial An Exchange Press Releases, EU, Featured News, Featured News, Featured News, Featured News, NA, News, News, News, News, News, News Featured, SA by Susan Knox

Perspective Magazine, the top multi-media information provider for the timeshare and fractional industry, announces that the Alternative Ownership Conference Asia Pacific (AOCAP) will be involved as a GNEX 2011 Supporter during the First Annual Global Networking Expo.

December 14, 2010 in Absolute World Group, AP, Company, EU, Featured News, Featured News, Featured News, Featured News, NA, News, News, News, News, News, News Featured, Perspective Magazine, SA by Susan Knox

Interval International, a leading global provider of vacation services and an operating segment of Interval Leisure Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: IILG), hosted a series of regional Vacation Ownership Investment Conferences across South Africa during November.

December 9, 2010 in Company, Featured News, Featured News, Interval International, NA, News, News, News, News Featured, SA by Susan Knox

Leading international property investment Fund, The Hideaways Club, has experienced its strongest growth to date during 2010.

November 24, 2010 in AP, Company, EU, NA, News, News, News, News, News, SA, The Hideaways Club by Susan Knox

Few holidays can beat the thrill of the safari; South Africa’s most exclusive bush retreats offer a heady mix of wildlife, wilderness and adventure, with enough lashings of luxury to keep guests coming back for more.

November 18, 2010 in Articles, Articles Featured, SA by Susan Knox

The shared ownership industry in South Africa is growing, and the Vacation Ownership Association of Southern Africa marked its ‘best ever conference’ while welcoming a ‘new dawn’ in legislation, products, financing and services.

November 17, 2010 in Articles, Articles Featured, SA, VOASA by Susan Knox

Dial An Exchange (DAE) is the world’s largest independent exchange provider. And because they are privately owned, they have the enviable ability to listen, and react quickly to the needs of their customers.

November 17, 2010 in Articles, Articles Featured, Dial An Exchange, Dial An Exchange Magazine Articles, SA by Susan Knox

Fortunately for the shared ownership industry, leading technology creator Merlin Software has been helping businesses streamline their operations and maximise profitability for over ten years, making it the industry-specific software of choice for many major players

November 16, 2010 in Articles, Articles Featured, Company, Merlin Software, SA by Susan Knox

As global economies recover there seems to be a buzz within the South African shared ownership industry once again, although we are nowhere near the hive of activity experienced pre recession, it seems though we are on a slow but steady path to a new norm.

November 15, 2010 in Articles, Articles Featured, SA by Susan Knox

Sunday Times Recognizes Hilton As Region’s Top Business-To-Business Hotel Brand

November 3, 2010 in News, News, Toolbar News by Steve Luba

Dial An Exchange Pty Ltd (DAE) has announced that it has entered into long term agreements with Classic Holiday Club to provide exchange services to its points club members effective 15 October 2010.

October 15, 2010 in AP, Company, Dial An Exchange, Dial An Exchange Press Releases, EU, Global News, NA, News, News, News, News, News, News Featured, SA by Susan Knox

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.

September 28, 2010 in AP, Company, EU, Global News, Interval International, NA, News, News, News, News, News, SA by Susan Knox

Timeshare and fractional ownership publisher Perspective Magazine has announced its latest promotional agreement with Canadas leading shared ownership industry association.

September 27, 2010 in AP, EU, Global News, NA, News, News, News, News, News, News Featured, SA by Susan Knox

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, Articles, Articles Featured by Susan Knox

But the recently announced 1st Annual GNEX 2011 & Perspective Magazine Awards Gala is definitely their largest and most ambitious project to date.

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

Perspective Magazine South Africa asked several influential South Africa market leaders to talk about the state of the industry and its biggest challenges going forward. Each shared-ownership industry leader was individually asked to respond to the same set of questions.

September 13, 2010 in Articles, Articles Featured, SA by Susan Knox

In South Africa, the RCI ‘Oscas’ is an annual event that celebrates RCI’s valued Club partners, Developers, Affiliated Resorts, Top Timeshare Sales Professionals’ successes and acknowledges the important role they play in the Vacation Ownership Industry in Africa. The Oscas event is the culmination point of RCI’s Recognition Programmes for the Vacation Ownership Industry in Africa.

September 13, 2010 in Articles, Articles Featured, RCI, SA by Susan Knox

Enhance your guest’s experience! Add a Wellness Spa by CelluBeauty to your resort or hotel at no cost to you whatsoever. See enhanced occupancies and demand within weeks of opening your Spa.

September 10, 2010 in Articles, Articles Featured, SA by Susan Knox

A young man’s dreams were nearly cut short when the grip of poverty threatened to extinguish his potential, but thanks to a group of teachers from Christel House South Africa Rosario Schuurman’s future looks bright.

September 10, 2010 in Articles, Articles Featured, Christel House, SA by Susan Knox

First Resorts, one of the worlds largest resort management Companies, managing over 50 holiday destinations throughout South Africa and the United Kingdom has introduced a new dimension in guest experiences, intended specifically to indulge all the senses of guests visiting any Resort.

September 9, 2010 in Articles, Articles Featured, First Resorts, SA by Susan Knox