Timeshare Industry Provides Attractive Growth Opportunities

A diverse pan­el of exec­u­tives rep­re­sent­ing the time­share indus­try vis­it­ed Rosen Col­lege on Wednes­day to share insight and inter­act with stu­dents inter­est­ed in vaca­tion own­er­ship careers. They indi­cat­ed that despite dif­fi­cul­ties in the past, the time­share busi­ness is under­go­ing a major trans­for­ma­tion, sup­port­ed by incred­i­ble growth even in a weak­ened economy.

The Analy­sis of the Glob­al Shared Vaca­tion Own­er­ship Indus­try report­ed approx­i­mate­ly 473,000 indi­vid­u­als were employed in the time­share indus­try world­wide —  and there’s room for growth, par­tic­u­lar­ly in Flori­da, which is home to 20% of the resorts in the Unit­ed States.

The local eco­nom­ic ben­e­fits of vaca­tion own­er­ship also are sub­stan­tial. Accord­ing to the Eco­nom­ic Impact of the Time­share Indus­try on the U.S. Econ­o­my, 2012 Edi­tion, time­share vis­i­tors spent an aver­age of $1,785 per trav­el par­ty dur­ing their vaca­tions in Orlan­do. Based on this spend­ing lev­el and an esti­mat­ed num­ber of trav­el par­ties, vis­i­tors spent an esti­mat­ed $363 mil­lion at Orlan­do area time­share resorts and $1.3 bil­lion at oth­er busi­ness­es (out­side of time­share resorts), total­ing $1.6 bil­lion in con­sumer spending.

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