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Nov / Dec , 2022 | TimeSharing Today
The Royal Sands All Suites Resort & Spa . Credit : booking . com
some kind of relationship to a hotel brand name , but those three have relationships with major timeshare companies — The Manhattan Club with Bluegreen Vacations , Polo Towers with Diamond Resorts International , and The Royal Sands All Suites Resort & Spa with Travel & Leisure Co .
Our findings reflect the extensive degree of consolidation in the timeshare-resort industry in particular , and the hospitality industry overall . The era of the independent developer who buys a piece of vacant land and transforms it into a one-of-a-kind vacation paradise seems to be over .
We began with the premise that we were seeking distinctive , unique timeshare resorts . With few exceptions , the rankings were counter-intuitive . Destinations overall may have those qualities , but not the resorts themselves . Hotel
brand standards , sometimes carried to extremes , may create a stultifying effect .
Independent legacy resorts don ’ t have to conform to the strictures of hotel brand standards . We conclude that the best of such resorts , whether self-managed or run by a professional timeshare-management company , can match or exceed the hotel-brand resorts in quality while offering unmatched vacation experiences .
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