Wow, a lot has
gone on in the offices of TTT over the past several
months. We've been through a 5.8 earthquake (and a
4.8 tremor), followed by Hurricane Irene which
took out our power for a week, plus I've been
dealing with a severe hand injury and lots of physical
therapy. To those of you whom I owe an email or
phone call, I beg your forgiveness because I'm way
behind in my correspondence. I apologize!
The great news is that TTT is
having its best year ever. We outgrew our old
offices and moved into new suites, we've hired
excellent new staff members, and we're now
fulfilling approximately 85% of our members' non-holiday
requests (as well as many holiday requests). Thank
you so much to everyone who has helped make 2011 such a
success.
Membership
Fee:
When
we recently sent out a newsletter letting members know
that we would no longer be charging a membership fee,
we received quite a
bit of feedback asking us to reconsider. Members
let us know that they feel more comfortable when
there is a membership fee for a variety of reasons,
most having to do with security and
exclusivity.
Consequently, we are reinstating our $2500
membership fee. We are not
reinstating any annual fee, so aside
from the one-time membership fee, members
"pay" only when they play...and by "pay" we
mean SAVE
90% (all members who host one or more high
season weeks each year save 90% each time we arrange
accommodations for you).
Fractional Summit
USA
At
the end of August, I attended "Fractional Summit USA" in
Miami and was the moderator for a panel discussion on
exchange, rentals, and resales for the luxury
fractional ownership industry.
The summit was held in the
Intercontinental Hotel and participants on
the panel included Tim McLaughlin of The Registry Collection and
Peter Gust of LaTour Hotels and Resorts. They
emphasized that exchange services and rentals
are important sales tools for developers,
enabling them to offer a wide variety
of incentives to buyers. Both exchange and rentals
make extremely good use of unsold developer inventory
and weeks which
buyers/owners are unable to use
themselves.
Double Points for
Holidays
With the holiday season quickly
approaching, I wanted to let you know that we have wonderful
properties available for each of the upcoming holidays
from Thanksgiving through New Years. If you'd
like to get away for a special family
celebration, give us a call!
Also, I wanted to remind you
that members receive double points when hosting for a
holiday week. Each
point represents $1000 of rental value and points never
expire. If you have
a holiday week available which you'd like
to exchange, please let us
know.
Serious Inquiries Only
Please understand that in the best interest of
all members, it is important for our
staff to work only on "serious" requests.
Please only ask us to arrange a
property for you if you are fairly certain that you will
reserve the property if we are able to fulfill the
request. This policy helps us provide our services as
effeciently, effectively, and inexpensively as
possible, plus it doesn't waste members' precious time
answering inquiries which aren't "serious."
Thank
you so much for your support and
collaboration.
Sample
Availabilities
For those of you who don't
know about the "Sample Availabilities" page of our
website, it's great fodder for daydreams and great
inspiration for dreams-come-true. Following is a
link to view it:
http://tradetotravel.com/vacation-properties-future.asp
At any given time, you will
always find many exceptional properties awaiting
you on the "Sample Availabilities" page. If you'd
like to reserve one or more, please give us a call at
800.922.6001 and you'll be on your way in no
time.
As always, thank you so much for your time and very
happy travels to you. Please let us
know whenever there is anything we can do for you!
All the best,
Leah
Give us
a week and we'll give you the
world!
