Purpose Beyond Profit with RDO8 Guest Speaker Geoffrey Breeze – Executive Director, World Travel & Tourism Council
The Travel & Tourism industry represents one of the most significant sectors of the global economy, “supporting 292 million jobs and generating 10.2% of global GDP.” Clearly this industry is so much more important than merely trivial leisure pursuit, but something that literally hundreds of millions of people depend upon for their daily livelihoods. In addition to economic development though, those who work in tourism every day are also helping to share cultures and build mutual understanding which is ultimately helping to create a more peaceful world. 2017 was declared the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the...
Discover the Wonderful CLC World Charity Holidays Programme
A holiday is something that many families look forward to and even expect on an annual basis. For those lucky enough, they are even able to enjoy multiple vacations per year. Unfortunately, not every family is so fortunate due to a number of different pressures such as financial, health or time restraints. This is often especially the case for carers who dedicate so much of their time looking after other members of their family. CLC World believes (as do we) that holidays are an extremely important aspect of life for families to gain some much needed downtime together, and...
Selling Travel Experiences Online – How to Get 6% More with RDO8 Guest Speaker Daniel Bensley
Leisure travel businesses and marketing organisations have long pondered what exactly motivates individuals to book the vacations they do. Why do they choose certain hotels or resorts over others? What factors lead to them deciding to head to one destination rather than another? What causes them to choose different excursions, restaurants, or activities while they are on their holiday? These are all factors related to the overall concept of leisure-travel and vacations which ultimately is a highly experience based activity with many complicated influences affecting a tourist or traveller’s decision making process. To be able to better understand what influences...
Baby Boomers – the Ultimate Upgrade? Presented by RDO8 Guest Speakers Lisa Migani and Peter Robinson
These days, as Europeans live longer and longer lives, they increasingly enjoy more leisure time during both their semi-retirement and full retirement years. Many people can now enjoy a further 20-30 years life after retirement and due to improvements in healthcare and standard of living, are more than able to enjoy active lifestyles, filled with travel. Because of this, many ageing Europeans are no longer content just to simply sit around watching TV or staying at home gardening. Instead many are choosing new and diverse housing options later in life, as they are free from responsibilities like children and jobs....
Discover the Evolving Vacation Home Market with RDO8 Guest Speaker Niki Christian Nutsch
The world of travel and tourism has changed rapidly and dramatically during the last decade, in a variety of different aspects. One of the most notable is in terms of the accommodation that people choose to stay in and the experiences that they decide to have during their vacation. The impact that one company, Airbnb, has had in particular is undeniable. Since the company was started less than a decade ago, it has completely transformed how a significant proportion of people choose to travel. Since its beginning in August 2008, the company has utilized social media highly effectively and has...
Dominate Future Markets Using Accurate Opinion Data with RDO8 guest speaker Freddie Herbst
Freddie Herbst brings to the table an extensive 26-year career history which includes an abundance of success within sales environments. This is due to his unwavering passion and commitment to his trade, and incredible ability to diversify, combined with a readiness to adapt to changing times. While many in the business world have been unable or unwilling to alter how they operate in the modern marketplace, Freddie has embraced change and flourished! Due to this and many other highly redeeming personal and professional qualities, he has greatly succeeded in past positions and in his current role as Commercial Director within the...
How Video Will be Used to Increase Footfall at RCI Affiliated Resorts
RCI pioneered vacation exchange back in 1974, and now aims to make advertising this concept even simpler for member resorts. Whether it is a week’s right-to-use, points or club membership, or an exchange membership linked to the sale of a wholly-owned holiday home, RCI fully appreciate that the purchase of timeshare is only just the beginning of what should be an exciting leisure lifestyle for their customers. When aiming to close a sale, a highly compelling driver to achieving this, is the option of providing customers the amazing opportunity to swap their owned holiday experience with over 4,000...
Why Now is the Right Time to Reconsider Timeshare
When you think of the word timeshare, what springs to mind? While for some it might be stylish and carefree getaways in your favourite holiday destination, for others it could just as easily be pushy salespeople trying to bamboozle you into signing an unwanted, lengthy contract. Unfortunately, for a number of years the word timeshare has had negative connotations in the minds of many people, due to the often unethical and unjust way it was sold in the past. This is all changing though as the holiday market goes through a massive shakeup. Timeshare is evolving into something that everyone...
Is Your Business Prepared for Brexit?
On 23rd June 2016, the majority of UK citizens who took part in the EU referendum made the unexpected decision to vote to leave the European Union. More than 30 million people voted with a turnout of 71.8% of those eligible to take part. The decision was extremely tight; the Leave supporters won by 51.9% to 48.1%, showing just how divided the UK population was on this difficult decision. For many us who work within the travel and tourism industry, this was definitely not the result we wanted to see happen. There are many indications suggesting that the negative effects...
RDO is Proud to Support the Amazing Work of Christel House
RDO and the timeshare industry as a whole is passionate about giving back to communities in need and supporting people both locally and around the world. While of course it is very important to provide an excellent service to our owners and guests, we also understand that there are many around the world who are not fortunate enough to be able to enjoy vacations. In fact, shockingly, even in this modern age there are still hundreds of millions of people who barely have enough to eat or drink, and millions of children who receive little or no education. This is a...