Wyndham Vacation Ownership Unveils Global Preferred Hotel Pricing for Timeshare Owners

Wyndham Vacation Ownership, the world’s largest vacation ownership company, today announced that owners of FairShare Plus, WorldMark, The Club, and WorldMark South Pacific Club timeshare ownership programs will be eligible to receive 20 percent discounts at participating Wyndham® hotels and resorts and a 15 percent discount at participating Super 8®, Days Inn®, Ramada®, Wingate Inn®, Travelodge®, Howard Johnson®, Baymont Inn & Suites®, Knights Inn® and AmeriHost Inn® hotels. 

The Preferred Hotel Pricing option, which will be made available by the end of 2006, will be applied to the best available rate through online reservations.

“We’re proud to offer our owners this value-added benefit, which also establishes a precedent for the future timeshare and hotel growth opportunities associated with the Wyndham brand,” said Franz S. Hanning, Wyndham Vacation Ownership president and chief executive officer. “We are vigorously committed to expanding the benefits of vacation ownership by providing our owners access to the full spectrum of Wyndham products.”

Wyndham Vacation Ownership’s industry-leading points-based timeshare programs provide owners with flexible planning and usage options including varied resort locations, lengths of stay, unit sizes and travel dates. Owners also can redeem their points for a wide variety of travel and leisure products including airfare, cruises, accommodations and specialized leisure activities and attractions.

“Wyndham hotels and our other brands are located in popular destinations including Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Miami,” said Jean Thomas, Wyndham Hotel Group executive vice president and chief marketing officer. “We are eager to introduce our strong family of hotel brands to Wyndham timeshare owners throughout the world.”

 
About Wyndham Vacation Ownership

Wyndham Vacation Ownership is the world’s largest vacation ownership business, as measured by the number of vacation ownership resorts, vacation ownership units and vacation ownership interests. Wyndham Vacation Ownership includes marketing and sales of vacation ownership interests, consumer financing in conjunction with the purchase of vacation ownership interests, property management services to property owners’ associations, and development and acquisition of vacation ownership resorts.

Through its two primary consumer brands, Wyndham Vacation Resorts and Trendwest Resorts, Wyndham Vacation Ownership has developed or acquired over 140 vacation ownership resorts throughout North America and the South Pacific that represent more than 18,000 individual ownership units and more than 750,000 owners of vacation ownership and other real estate interests. Wyndham Vacation Ownership is headquartered in Orlando, Florida, and is supported by more than 14,000 employees globally.

About Wyndham Hotels and Resorts

Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, a subsidiary of Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE: WYN) based in Parsippany, N.J., offers upscale hotel and resort accommodations throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. All hotels are independently owned and either franchised or managed by an affiliate of Wyndham hotels and resorts.