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Resort
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Crossville,
TN – July 2015 / Newsmaker Alert / Resort
Trades news journal, mailed to a nationwide subscriber base of
7,000 resort professionals. A true leader in the vacation ownership/timeshare
industry and its bellwether of trends, issues and the movement of people,
the journal is a super-tabloid that is supported by an active online news
resource – ResortTrades.com.
In the July 2015 online issue:
A Story I Love About Mermaids,
Goddesses and Helping Cancer Survivors! (Rebecca Shaw)
So
listen to what happened last fall.... I am in my office and I get a call
from a woman in Las Vegas. She said, “I saw your program called ‘The Mermaid’s
Journey’ and I am dying to speak with you!” The enthusiasm in her voice
was a change for my line of business. Usually, I hear desperation in someone’s
voice when they say those words. She sounded excited and happy! I called
her back and she told me her name was Cathy Backus. She founded a non-profit
called Send Me On Vacation. Cathy worked in the timeshare and vacation
industry and had developed the concept of using donated time-share weeks
and airline travel resources to assist recent breast cancer survivors to
convalesce in beautiful vacation spots while they embrace their “new” normal
(more)
RFID Technology Boosting
Efficiency at Resorts (Brian Welch)
It’s most common use is
to assign a unique number that identifies a person, object or various information,
and record it to a microchip. Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID,
utilizes a chip and antenna together called an RFID transponder, or RFID
tag.
The chip’s antenna transmits
the identification information to a reader that converts the radio waves
into digital information that’s sent to computers. This technology isn’t
new. RFID has been in use since the 1970s. In its infancy, it was limited
and expensive, but that has changed over time. Radio waves can be transmitted
using most non-metallic materials, and RFID tags can be packaged to be
weatherproofed and extremely durable. (more)
Cyber Insurance – A “Must
Have” for Community Associations (Scott McGinness)
Every week there’s a new
headline describing a security breach resulting in the theft of personal
information of hundreds, or thousands of victims. Security experts now
say that there are only two types of companies left in the United States:
those that have been hacked and those that do not yet know they have been
hacked.
Cyber-attacks occur much
more frequently than fires, natural disasters, lawsuits or other risks
where insurance is considered indispensable. And the potential loss in
dollars is just as great. While very few community associations or small
businesses carry Cyber Liability insurance, this is changing. “People are
recognizing that existing technologies aren’t working”, said Richard A.
Clarke, the first cybersecurity czar at the White House, in a New York
Times interview. “It’s almost impossible to think of a company that hasn’t
been hacked – the Pentagon’s secret network, the White House, JP Morgan
– it is pretty obvious that prevention and detection technologies are broken.”
(more)
About Resort Trades
The Trades was established
in 1987 and distributes approximately 7,000 copies monthly to every U.S.
vacation ownership resort, to a voluntary subscriber base of resort professionals
of all walks and at all the industry’s important conventions and conferences.
Resort
Trades adds value to the industry as a whole with an enormous volume
of informative content to assist resort operators in running their properties
more efficiently, raising revenues more effectively and making better-informed
buying decisions. www.ResortTrades.com
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