Timeshare Trends Blog

Harrah’s Entertainment has assumed ownership of the Las Vegas Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino. Harrah’s customer-loyalty program, Total Rewards, will be fully integrated into the property in April 2010, enabling guests to earn and redeem Reward and Tier Credits. Planet Hollywood A-List points will automatically convert into Total Rewards. Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. is the world’s largest provider of branded casino entertainment. Since its beginning in Reno more than 70 years ago, Harrah’s has grown through development of new properties, expansions and acquisitions, and now operates casinos on four continents. The company’s properties operate primarily under the Harrah’s, Caesars and Horseshoe brand names. Harrah’s also owns the World Series of Poker and a majority interest in the London Clubs International family of casinos.

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Thailand’s Stoney Monday Oasis Golf Resort, a new resort recently opened on the island of Phuket, is now affiliated with Interval International. The resort was developed by the Stoney Monday Company, an Australian based leisure and property company. It is located on Phuket situated between Phuket City Center and the beach resort of Patong. There are 61 units with 44 units allocated to the timeshare program. Units range in size from studios to two-bedroom apartments. Amenities include a swimming pool, outdoor Jacuzzi, health club and spa, tennis courts, and restaurants. Plus the resort is located within the perimeters of the Phuket Country Club, which includes a world-renowned championship golf course.

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Welk Resorts San Diego has recently won the Workplace Excellence Award in the large company category. Presented by the San Diego Society for Human Resource Management, Welk Resorts has earned the distinction of being San Diego’s “Best Place to Work”. It was proclaimed the winner out of a field of over 120 other nominated companies. What is most unique about this award is that only employees are eligible to nominate their company as a “great place to work”.

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Florida attracted only slightly fewer visitors in 2009 than it did in 2008, according to a report from Visit Florida, the state’s quasi-private tourism marketing agency, as reported in a recent Orlando Sentinel story. The estimated 80.3 million people who visited Florida in 2009 was down just 0.8 percent from the 80.9 million a year earlier. Total visitation remains relatively steady, but they are spending much less. For instance, Disney was able to keep attendance from slumping, but that effort pinched its bottom line as heavy discounts were used to lure cash-strapped tourists. Domestic visitors remained steady, Canadian visitors dropped 6.4 percent, and overseas visitors, the most lucrative category of traveler, declined 4.3 percent.

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