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Articles tagged “timeshares”

Hotels

Choice Hotels is no longer just a hotel company as it gets into timeshares

You are crazy if you think Airbnb and HomeAway aren't pressuring the traditiional hotel industry. Choice Hotels' new timeshare endeavor is a tiny manifestation of the disruption in the lodging industry.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Choice Hotels is no longer just a hotel company as it gets into timeshares

Short-Term Rentals

King of timeshares: Too poor to pay sales agents, rich enough to build world’s biggest McMansion

To outsiders, timeshare salesman exist to make used-car salesman look respectable. To multi-millionaire Siegel they exist to sell your properties, then not pay commissions to. It's hard to imagine a situation where someone could look scummier.

David Wren, The Sun News | 12 years ago

Short-Term Rentals

NextGreatPlace attacks vacation deprivation with corporate benefits program

This Work Vacation Balance program for NextGreatPlace is a clever tack by the company to get some traction in the corporate world. And, with their own vacation planners, employees should be able to hook themselves with some nice vacations without the stress of doing all that travel planning on their own.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

Short-Term Rentals

Time-share executives say they see some light at the end of the tunnel

Unless they work on a bit of re-invention, the hard-sell tactics of time-share companies and the C-list quality of their properties will always make the field seem like the used-car lot of the travel industry.

Sarah K. Clarke, Orlando Sentinel | 12 years ago

Hotels

Portico Club and Inspirato face off for vacation club supremacy

Can Portico by Exclusive Resorts and Inspirato resort to marketing super-exclusive vacation clubs to the mega wealthy? What Greek debt crisis? There probably is a market for this, and Steve Case and a bunch of other venture capitalists are making a downpayment on these clubs' viability.

Skift | 12 years ago