Hints and tips:
...Choice will need to provide an extra tip to get Wyndham shareholders on its side. It may want to start by increasing the cash component....
...She says they already have superfans, so they’re never challenged by a room. She points at the club. “None of those people give a fuck about who I am. That makes me better.”...
...“They are also buying second homes in vacation spots in their own country since they know travel will be disrupted for a while yet.”...
...Ever industrious, Isaac wants the club eventually to span other Ivy League universities such as Harvard and Princeton....
...Like the residences it manages and the Costa Palmas beach club, the Four Seasons, which opened last month, was designed by Guerin Glass Architects....
...Meanwhile, Wyndham Vacation Ownership will be a publicly traded timeshare company, headquartered in Florida and headed by its chief executive Michael Brown....
...Oh, and don't spend time reading the Tesla Motor Club forums threads on build quality, clearly all the contributors are short the stock....
...In this case, it was the high-end timeshare resort membership model pioneered by the likes of Wyndham Vacation Ownership, Marriott Vacation Club and Sheraton Vistana....
...It also sealed the sale of its timeshare vacation business to Interval Leisure Group for $1.5bn, as part of its asset-lite strategy....
...Starwood is hoping to decide on a path by the end of the year but offered no guidance at its second-quarter results on Thursday....
...UK capital car club Bluecity, backed by the French Bolloré conglomerate, will in February become London’s first fully zero-emissions car club when it launches the fleet of red cars designed by Pininfarina...
...The news comes after talk that Starwood was under pressure by activist investors to merge with InterContinental or Wyndham....
...Villas.com, the vacation rental site operated by booking.com, which includes plenty of plush pads, boasts 308,000 vacation homes....
...His company, Fosun International, this month won the longest takeover battle in French history by beating Italian investor Andrea Bonomi to take control of Club Méditerranée, the vacation organiser, after...
...A team from Wyndham Vacation Rentals is snapping pictures of women against a beach backdrop and entering them into a competition to win a family holiday....
...HomeAway, another vacation rentals site that also owns Airbnb rival VRBO, went public in 2011 and has a $3.9bn market capitalisation on Nasdaq....
...Others include Roomorama and VRBO (Vacation rentals by owner). Perhaps most relevant to business travellers is Onefinestay, which describes itself as an “unhotel”....
...Here’s Daniel del Olmo, senior vice president and managing director in Latin America for Wyndham Hotel, the world’s largest hotel company (with brands including Ramada, Howard Johnson and Travelodge): We...
...Created by the Palma-based marine industry, it was bought out by the Informa Yacht Group in 2004 that also runs the Monaco, Singapore, Phuket and Abu Dhabi yacht shows....
...“It’s fun to run a club and, as they say, it’s good for your leadership skills.”...
...But aside from the odd vacation playing golf or tennis in Aspen or Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where he stays on a ranch owned by longstanding friend and former World Bank president James Wolfensohn, Greenspan...
...… When in-country, I’m headquartered at the Westwind Club, a timeshare outside Nassau that doubles for my father as a refuge from Midwestern winters....
...But on returning from his annual summer vacation in Colorado, he surprised his board by announcing that he would step down at the end of the year....
...Wyndham Worldwide is less pessimistic about booking trends than Marriott, but other groups have yet to show their hand. Not everything is rotten in the state of business travel....
...Its main rival, Club Car, was once owned by private equity....
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