This document provides an overview of timeshare concepts. It defines timeshare as a form of vacation ownership where multiple parties hold rights to use the same property for allotted periods. It discusses the main types of timeshare ownership including deeded, leased, and points-based systems. Key factors that determine timeshare prices like location, season, unit size are outlined. The benefits of timeshare like larger accommodations and exchange options are also summarized.

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Barnsdale Hall Hotel (UK) timeshare lodges. On the
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6. Syllabus-1st Semester, NCHMCTAN
• Definition and types of timeshare; referral
chains & condominiums.
• Classification of timeshare.
• Types of accommodation & their size.
• Advantages & disadvantages of timeshare.
• International & national brands of timeshare.
• How is it different from hotel business?

7. What is Timeshare Concept?
A timeshare (or timesharing) is a form of
vacation ownership. In the most
traditional form, when you
buy timeshare, you essentially purchase
the right to vacation one week every
year, at a specific timeshare resort.
The week & room type of vacation may be
chosen by the buyer, and price of that
time period depends on the strength of
demand. Higher the demand, greater
are the prices.

8. 1 year ≈ 52 Weeks

9. What is Timeshares
• A timeshare is a property with unique form
of ownership or user rights. These properties
are typically resort condominium units, in
which multiple parties hold rights to use the
same property, but each sharer is allotted a
specific period of time, (typically one week,
and almost always the same time every
year), in which they may use the property.

10. Attraction of a Timeshare
Timeshares properties are more spacious & better
equipped. They offer more flexibility than typical
vacations, and include options for points-based
memberships, and biennial usage. Additionally,
many timeshare purchases come with the ability
to exchange your vacation week, for a week at
another resort, a choice to gift or rent it out,
making timeshare a great option for many
travellers.

14. Price of a Timeshare depends on many factors.
RCI designates the colour red as a season of high demand, white as a
season of average demand, and blue as a season of low demand.
Interval International designates red as a season of high demand, yellow
as a season of average demand, and green as a season of low demand.
A red timeshare may be worth more than a green or yellow timeshare.

15. How are timeshare prices determined?
• The price of a timeshare is dependent upon a few
different factors.
• If you plan on buying timeshare weeks, consider
that these are priced according to a variety of
elements including time of year, location, resort
amenities, and size of the unit.
• Some resorts will only sell timeshare points, and
are usually priced per-point.
• Additionally, a timeshare resale (buying from an old
customer) costs much less, than one purchased
directly from the resort developer.

17. What is the difference between deeded,
leased, and licensed timeshare?
Most timeshare ownerships are either deeded or
leased for a specific number of years.
Deeded Timeshare – Similar to a traditional real
estate (housing) purchase, after you buy a deeded
timeshare, you own it wholly, and solely. It may be
sold, rented or even willed to your heirs. There is
no expiration date on a deeded timeshare. It is a
perpetual contract.

18. Timeshare Ownership Types
• Leased Timeshare – Leased timeshare (also called
right-to-use) gives you the right to use a specific
week or weeks at the property for a set number of
years (usually 20-99 years).
• The right to use the property normally returns to
the selling resort at the end of the lease period.
• If you buy a timeshare resale with a lease, be sure
to ask how many years are left on the contract.
• Many resorts will let you renew the contract on the
year it expires, but it is always a good idea to know
before you make a purchase.

19. Licensed Timeshare
Generally, licensed timeshare requires joining a
“vacation club”. By purchasing a membership
to a vacation club, owners receive a number
of points which, they can then use to purchase
vacations at various resorts. Some of the most
well-known vacation clubs include Disney
Vacation Club, Marriott Vacation Club,
and Hilton Grand Vacations Club.

21. How does timeshare exchanging work?
• One of the best reasons to buy timeshares is the
flexibility to exchange your week. As an owner, you
can join a timeshare exchange company to trade
your own week with other timeshare owners.
• This flexibility means that you may return to your
home resort year after year or trade for any of
the thousands of affiliated resorts, throughout the
world.
• You can even alternate back and forth between the
two options.

23. Timeshare Exchange
• The most popular timeshare exchange
companies are: RCI, Interval International,
and DAE.
• Some timeshare resorts have an internal
exchange program, but most also offer the
option to trade using an external company such
as RCI or Interval International. Typically these
third-party exchange companies require an
additional membership fee but give you the
option to cancel or renew every year.

25. What are timeshare use periods?
• There are four major types of timeshare use
periods.
• Fixed Weeks – Buying a fixed week timeshare
allows you the use of the unit for that specific week
each year for as long as you own the property. Fixed
weeks generally start on a Friday, Saturday, or
Sunday.
• Floating Weeks – Buying a floating week timeshare
allows you to use the unit anytime during the year
based upon a resort’s availability.

26. Timeshare Use Period Types
• Rotating or flex-week ownership
• Some are sold as rotating weeks, commonly
referred to as flex weeks. In an attempt to give all
owners a chance for the best weeks, the weeks
are rotated forward or backward through the
calendar, so in year 1 the owner may have use of
week 25, then week 26 in year 2, and then week
27 in year 3. This method gives each owner a fair
opportunity for prime weeks, but unlike its name,
it is not flexible.

27. Points programs
• Resort-based points programs are also sold as
deeded and as right to use. Points programs annually
give the owner a number of points equal to the level
of ownership. The owner in a points program can
then use these points to make travel arrangements
within the resort group. Many points programs are
affiliated with large resort groups offering a large
selection of options for destination. Many resort
point programs provide flexibility from the
traditional week stay.
• Resort point program members, such as WorldMark
by Wyndham and Diamond Resorts International,
may request from the entire available inventory of
the resort group.

28. Points-based Program

29. Points Program
• A points program member may often request
fractional weeks as well as full or multiple week
stays. The number of points required to stay at the
resort in question will vary based on a points chart.
The points chart will allow for factors such as:
• Popularity of the resort
• Size of the accommodations
• Number of nights
• Desirability of the season

30. What is the difference between
timeshare season colours?
• Each colour reflects the overall
desirabilitypopularity of a particular week at
a timeshare resort in a sliding scale from red
(peak season) to green (off-season).
Peak
Average
Off-
season
Peak
Average
Off- Season
R C I
Interval
International

31. What is the difference between a
timeshare and a hotel?
• A timeshare resort typically offers more space and
more amenities than a traditional hotel. The
average hotel room consists of a studio room with a
small bathroom, and not much else. With a
timeshare, you normally receive a condo-style unit
with multiple bedrooms, bathrooms, a separate
living room, dining area, and a full kitchen.
• Most timeshare resorts also feature an array of
amenities on the grounds of the resort. A daily
schedule of on-site sporting, recreational, and social
activities are available for both adults and children.

32. Methods of use
• Own personal use
• Rent through a broker, website or own contacts
• Gift to family or friends
• Exchange-internally (same company properties)
• Exchange-externally through RCI & I.I.
• Sell ownership, like a property
• Earn points if you don’t use it (to be exchanged
for some other time, place and product).
• Donate to charity
• Leave it in your last will for your children

33. History
• The term "timeshare" was coined in the United
Kingdom in the early 1960s expanding on a vacation
system that became popular after World War
II. Vacation home sharing, also known as holiday
home sharing, involved four European families that
would purchase a vacation cottage jointly, each
having exclusive use of the property for one of the
four seasons. They rotated seasons each year, so
each family enjoyed the best season equally. This
concept was mostly used by related families because
joint ownership requires trust and no property
manager was involved.
However, few families vacation for an entire season at
a time; so the vacation home sharing properties
were often vacant for long periods.

34. History of Timeshare
Enterprising minds in England decided to go
one step further and divide a resort room
into 1/50th ownership, (365 days divided by
7 days of a week=52 weeks) have two weeks
each year for repairs and upgrades, and
charge a maintenance fee to each owner. It
took almost a decade for timeshares in
Europe to evolve into a smoothly run,
successful, business venture.

35. What is Condominium Concept?
A condominium, often shortened to condo, is a type
of real estate property, divided into several units
that are each separately owned, surrounded by
common areas that are jointly owned.
Residential condominiums are frequently constructed
as apartment buildings, but there has been an
increase in the number of "detached
condominiums", like cottages, villas, bungalows etc.
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why-is-it-challenging-05-24-2007/

37. Etymology-Origin of the Word
Condominium
• "Condominium" is a Latin word formed by adding the
prefix con- ("together") to the
word dominium ("domain, property, ownership"). Its
meaning is therefore "shared property".
• Condominia (the plural of condominium in Latin)
originally referred to territories over which two or more
countries shared joint dominion. This technique was
frequently used to settle border disputes when
multiple claimants could not agree on how to partition
the disputed territory.
• For example, from 1818 to 1846, Oregon Country was a
condominium over which both the United
States and Great Britain shared joint sovereignty,
before it joined the USA.

38. Apartment Versus Condominium
• Unlike apartments, which are leased by their tenants,
condominium units are owned outright. Additionally,
the owners of the individual units also collectively
own the common areas of the property, such as
hallways, walkways, laundry rooms, etc.; as well as
common utilities and amenities, such as
the HVAC system, elevators, and so on. Many
shopping malls are industrial condominiums in which
the individual retail and office spaces are owned by
the businesses that occupy them while the common
areas of the mall are collectively owned by all the
business entities that own the individual spaces.
• The common areas, amenities and utilities are
managed collectively by the owners through their
association, such as a homeowner association.

39. Homeowners Association (HOA)
• A homeowners association (HOA), whose members are
the unit owners, manages the condominium through a
board of directors elected by the membership. This
exists under various names depending on the
jurisdiction, such as "unit title", "sectional title",
"common hold", "strata council", or "tenant-owner's
association", "body corporate", "Owners Corporation",
"condominium corporation" or "condominium
association".
• Another variation of this concept is the "time share",
although not all time shares are condominiums, and
not all time shares involve actual ownership of (i.e.,
deeded title to) real property.

40. Condominium Hotels
Condo Hotels are a unique product, with a
great future.
• The owner has complete ownership, no
lease.
• Each owner can occupy or sell his unit
through the professionally managed hotel
company, and has to follow the rules laid by
the hotel management.
• He can stay, after giving a short, formal
notice to the company.

41. Condo Hotels
• The owner of the Condo Hotel and Hotel
Management company split the income from
rentals on an agreed basis.
• The people who check-in to a Condo Hotel
can be assured of the quality product and
services.
• The owner also leaves his botheration of
managing a complex building to expert
hoteliers.
• When the owner checks-in, he can expect 5
star treatment, too!

42. How condominiums are managed
• Condominium DocumentMaster Deed
• By-Laws
• Board of Directors
• Owners’ Association
• Annual Maintenance fee
• Hired ProfessionalsManagers

43. Non-Residential Condominiums
• Condominium ownership is also used, albeit less
frequently, for non-residential land uses: offices, hotel
rooms, retail shops, private airports, marinas, group
housing facilities (retirement homes or dormitories),
bare land (in British Columbia)) and storage. The legal
structure is the same, and many of the benefits are
similar; for instance, a non-profit corporation may face
a lower tax liability in an office condominium than in
an office rented from a taxable, for-profit company.
However, the frequent turnover of commercial land
uses in particular can make the inflexibility of
condominium arrangements problematic.

44. Condominium Concept in India
• In India, condominiums are known as "Apartment
Buildings" or "Flats". Each building consists of
multiple floors and flats with different
configurations. The most common configurations
are "1-BHK", "2-BHK" and "3-BHK" (BHK stands
for bedroom-hall-kitchen).
• The association of home owners is usually called
a Co-operative Housing Society (CHS) which
needs to be registered with the municipal
authorities.
• Source- Wikipedia

45. Types of Accommodation
The following are the types of accommodation available for
the timeshare guests:
1. Apartments (Studio Units) or Multi-Room with
KitchenKitchenette
2. Bungalows
3. Villas
4. Cottages
5. Restored farmhouses
6. Private residence clubs
7. Second homes
8. Condos
9. Marina

46. Size of accommodation
• Sleeps 22 (privately)
• Sleeps 42 ( ,, )
• Sleeps 64 ( ,, )

47. Facilities
• Fully equipped kitchens
• Dining Area
• Dishwasher machine
• Television
• DVD Players
• Washing Machine
• Crockery, cutlery, cooking utensils etc

48. Advantage of Timeshare
The following benefits:
A. A fast growing tourism product
B. Promotes all types –inbound , outbound and
domestic tourism
C. High potential for employment opportunities
D. Domestic tourism for India’s tourism growth
E. Full potential of domestic tourism-to be
exploited by industry and government
partnership.

49. Disadvantages of Timeshare
The following are:
A. The biggest disadvantage of the timeshare
business is that it has still not organized well.
B. A major portion of its cost is being spent on its
marketing and merchandizing.

50. Critique of timeshare
• Over-priced
• Annual maintenance fee being too high
• Value of Time Share does not appreciate like
real estate does
• High-pressure sales tactics
• Resale of Timeshare is nearly impossible!

51. What Are Timeshare Maintenance Fees?
• After you buy timeshare, there are some small
additional yearly expenses. Average
maintenance fees range from $500 – $1,000
annually and are the owners’ shared cost of
the upkeep of their own unit, as well as the
common-use grounds of the resort.

52. BRANDS
• International:
 Disney vacation club
 Embassy suite
 Four seasons
 Hilton Grand vacations
 Hyatt vacation club
 Marriott vacation club international
 Sheraton
 Shell vacation
 Suntorra Resorts

53. Domestic brands
http://www.airda.org/timeshare-india.html
Club Mahindra
Ffort Radisson
Holiday Inn Goa
Kamat Group
Le Royal Meridien
Royal Resorts
Sterling Days Inn
http://www.airda.org/membership-airda-
members.html

54. Timeshare Rating System
What is the difference between a Five-Star resort
and a Gold Crown resort?
• These titles refer to ratings from timeshare
exchange companies.
• A Five-Star Resort is the most desirable rating
appointed to a resort in the Interval
International system while a Gold Crown Resort
is the most desirable rating in the Resort
Condominium International (RCI) system.

55. Mixed-Use
• The scenario describes timeshare in a hotel
environment.
• Mixed-use facilities have been soaring in
popularity since the mid 1990s.
• Integrate golf courses, restaurants, swimming
pools, etc. with a hotel and timeshare
component to maximize returns.
• Marriott, Disney, Hyatt, Starwood, Four
Seasons, Ritz-Carlton, and Hilton are
companies adding the timeshare concept to
their hotel businesses.

56. Advantages of Mixed-Use
• Leverage hotel brand names and create cross-
utilization opportunities between traditional
hotel products and timeshare services and
products
• Creates stability and profitability
–Customers pay a sizable lump sum in advance
–Customers pay an annual contribution
• Less affected by a downturn in the economy
than conventional resort hotels
• Help lower marketing, operational, and
development costs, and maximize the yield of
the operation through shared assets and staff

57. Compilation & Presentation
Praveen Jha
Senior Faculty
IHM Hajipur
Vaishali, Bihar