Firstlight The K Club in Ireland has been announced as a winner in the ‘Best Golf Development’ category in the Europe & Africa Property Awards, in association with Bloomberg Television.

The Club Malta team will use Merlin for all aspects of its operation including appointments, tour tracking, sales contracts, ownership tracking, reporting and accounting.

The world’s most recognized independent information provider for the timeshare and fractional industry provides detailed information for the networking portion of the event.

Absolute World Group becomes the initial corporate sponsor of Perspective Magazine’s first annual timeshare and fractional industry networking and awards event.

Generator are delighted to welcome The Enduria Group as the newest member of the Generator Family. John Macdonald (Enduria’s Managing Director) and Darren Davies (Enduria’s Sales and Marketing Director) teamed up just over a year ago to offer their combined 30 year industry experience in sales and marketing in a new business venture based in the Canaries.

The shared ownership industry’s top independent information provider will be a media sponsor for the conference for the third year in a row.

John Spence, Chairman and Owner of Karma Royal Group, was recognized as one of Western Australia’s top entrepreneurs at the 10th annual Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards held in Perth on Thursday night.

The global leader in providing independent information for the timeshare and fractional industry will host its 1st Annual Global Networking Expo & Perspective Magazine Awards Gala at the world famous Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas.

Perspective Magazine, the global leader in providing independent information for the timeshare and fractional industry, announces plans to introduce a world-wide industry awards program.

When Kusadasi Golf & Spa opens in Turkey next year, it will mark an exciting ‘first’ for both Club La Costa Resorts & Hotels and for this increasingly popular destination.

The Hideaways Club, Europe’s leading international property investment Fund, has added four spectacular new villas to its burgeoning property portfolio

An overall restructure of Perspective Magazine’s suite of timeshare and fractional oriented industry magazines leads to the rebranded Perspective Magazine: Europe & Middle East.

RCI®, the global leader in vacation exchange and one of the Wyndham Worldwide family of brands (NYSE: WYN), announced that it added 22 new resorts to its vacation exchange network in the second quarter of 2010. This includes resorts added to RCI® Weeks, RCI Points® and The Registry Collection® program, the world’s largest luxury exchange program, with seven of the resorts coming from existing affiliated developers and four resorts under development.

Le Méridien today announced Chinese artists Yan Lei and Chen Wenbo as the latest LM100(TM) members, selected by Jérôme Sans, Le Méridien’s Global Cultural Curator. As part of LM100, Yan Lei will provide artwork for a new key card series for Le Méridien’s UNLOCK ART programme, which will become part of a limited edition artwork collection. Chen Wenbo in his role on the LM100 will create a series of artworks for high impact areas, such as hotel entrances, worldwide as part of Le Méridien’s award-winning Arrival experience.

TATOC, The Timeshare Association, announced today the launch of a new Code of Practice specifically for timeshare re-sale companies. The new Code has been established to provide maximum consumer protection while providing a fair and equal opportunity for re-sale companies operating within the Code’s guidelines.

TATOC, the Timeshare Association, announced today that Tenerife-based resort management company WimPen Leisure Management has joined as a Platinum Affiliate.

The shared ownership industry’s leading independent information provider will be the media sponsor for the organisation’s newly rebranded annual conference.

Technical Olympic Group today announced that Sithonia Beach Club at Porto Carras has affiliated with RCI, the global leader in vacation exchange and one of the Wyndham Worldwide family of brands (NYSE: WYN).

Cameron House at Loch Lomond has been awarded Hotel of the Year 2010 at the prestigious Catey Awards – the Oscars of the UK’s hospitality industry.

The Boutique & Lifestyle Lodging Association, BLLA, (www.blla.org), a newly formed association dedicated to uniting the world’s boutique and lifestyle properties and the suppliers that sustain them, announced plans for developing a universal standard and criteria for defining boutique and lifestyle lodgings. Initiated by BLLA’s Founder and hospitality industry veteran Frances Kiradjian, and in coordination with its Board of Advisors, hospitality industry leaders, and worldwide boutique property owners and suppliers, the new classification will create a differentiation for this fragmented sector within the hospitality industry.

Steve Luba

Timeshare and fractional ownership magazine publisher Perspective International is preparing for a major initiative to increase the public awareness of its multi-media products with the appointment of Steve Luba as Director of Public Relations for the company.

Southworth Development LLC today announced the affiliation of its new golf resort, The Village at Machrihanish Dunes, to The Registry Collection program, the world’s largest luxury exchange program and one of the Wyndham Worldwide family of brands under the RCI umbrella (NYSE: WYN).

RCI, the global leader in vacation exchange and one of the Wyndham Worldwide family of brands (NYSE: WYN), has launched a new and greatly enhanced www.rciventures.com website designed to be the ‘must read’ source for news and views on the shared-vacation ownership industry in the Europe, Middle East, Africa and India region.

Developed by Sharon Jackson and Emily Collins, Holiday Letting Shop (HLS) has been developed to bridge the gap between individual timeshare owners and resorts with inventory to rent and companies and holidaymakers looking for resort-based apartment accommodation.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) today announces that it will introduce its wellness brand, Westin Hotels & Resorts, to Hamburg. The new Westin Hamburg Hotel will open in 2012 under an agreement between Starwood and its joint venture partner, Arabella Hospitality Group. The hotel is designed by world-renowned Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as part of the highly anticipated Elbe Philharmonic complex, Europe’s most ambitious development projects. Expected to become a cultural and architectural landmark, this urban development will also include luxury residences and a multitude of culinary, cultural and nightlife options all set in the heart of upscale HafenCity.

Wednesday 26th May 2010 was an important day for the timeshare industry. There was no scandal, no new legislation nor a consumer television programme about to reveal all. But in a hotel in Manchester there were representatives from every facet of the industry meeting for the first time to discuss the challenges and problems of the industry and more importantly to discuss action to overcome them

Perspective Magazine, the timeshare and fractional ownership industry’s largest independent trade publication continues to add technological and social media elements to its strong online presence by introducing the first industry toolbar that delivers the latest news and reviews direct to the internet browsers of its users without having to first visit the http://perspectivemagazine.com website.

Citadel Trustees Ltd (Citadel) is pleased to announce that it has recently been appointed by the Petevinos Group to provide bespoke Trustee and Stakeholder Services to this highly acclaimed Cypriot Developer for their exclusive Fractional Resort, Sunset Springs Hotel & Resort Suites.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) and Nurol Insaat ve Ticaret A.S. today announce the official opening of the Sheraton Batumi Hotel, Georgia. The 203-room Sheraton Hotel is the first internationally branded hotel in the emerging Black Sea destination of Batumi and is part of the brand’s strategic expansion that will add approximately 50 new hotels and over 20,000 rooms to the Sheraton portfolio over the next three years.

Stars from the world of entertainment and football came together for a thrilling golf match at the world famous K Club in County Kildare, Ireland last week to play in the Firstlight Challenge Cup. The event was hosted by Firstlight International to celebrate the sales launch of luxury homes, which are being sold on a fractional ownership basis in the grounds of the spectacular AA 5 Star K Club hotel.