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The Next Generation Of Buyers
The report from the Bournemouth undergraduate team has been published and is now available to download from the members-only section of this site. Sue McNicol and I have worked with this team of 4 final year students over the past 12 months and sat in..
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2012 And All That
Post RDO 2 and ARDA Fall in September and November respectively, I seem to have been endlessly writing pieces for various journals so the writing of blogs went very much to the back of the queue and then we had Christmas etc etc. So apologies for all..
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ARDA and RDO
To Washington just over a week ago where an RDO delegation made a presentation to the ARDA Board on RDO and its activities, which resulted during the Convention, in both parties agreeing to the setting up a Co-operation Agreement between the two..
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After The Conference
I returned from what I thought was a really good conference determined to write a blog on the highlights of the event, but such is the demand for instantaneous news and views, that by the time I am back at my desk I have already provided a piece for RCI..
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RDO Present and Future
Drafting the CEO's report for the AGM to be held at RDO2 on 27th September, it was interesting to see what had been achieved this year on a reduced budget – reduced, because of diminished levies as sales by members are adversely affected by the..
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Timeshare and Exchange
A couple of weeks ago, I was talking to a very helpful lady in the Exchange Department of one of Europe's 2 Exchange Companies. I have to admit straight away that I am not the world's most reliable timeshare owner, in that I am notorious for forgetting..
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RDO's new website (and British society)
We are in the middle of what is supposed to be the "silly season" for news and normally with politicians on holiday the media is stuck for good stories to run. This year they must think their Christmases have all come at once - or perhaps not..
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Now here’s an interesting state of affairs
Let me apologise straight away for slanting this blog on the subject of the UK tourism industry, when I am sure there are other issues we should be concentrating on at this stage, such as the Greek economy and the possible ramifications for..
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Top tourism destinations 2010 – and an appeal to Madrid
Last time I was talking about the resurgence in Spain's tourism industry in 2010 after 2 very difficult years and the efforts the Spanish Government is putting into reviving their position in the world rankings. I was going to major on the Top Tourism..
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WTO figures for 2010: who’s up, who’s down?
I touched on these figures a couple of blogs ago, if anyone is counting, when talking about Spain's strategy for regaining its No2 slot in world rankings for International Tourist arrivals. The Tourism Alliance, of which RDO is a member, sent us recently..
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Spain bounces back
According to a recent report from Wharton University, “Beyond Beaches: Spanish Tourism makes a Comeback” - http://www.wharton.universia.net/index.cfm?fa=viewArticle&id=2013&langua..., latest sample figures for 2010 show that tourists..
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ARDA and RDO
To Washington just over a week ago where an RDO delegation made a presentation to the ARDA Board on RDO and its activities, which resulted during the Convention, in both parties agreeing to the setting up a Co-operation Agreement between the two..
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Timeshare Owners, A Call to Action
Timeshare Owners, A Call to Action
Last week the RDO Chairman sent the following letter out to all Developer members of our organisation and I have set it out below in full, as I believe it is something that should be made available to all those..
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