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Vacation Rental Manager Serves as Treasurer of Industry Board of Directors. Alan R Hammond of Holiday Vacation Rentals Elected as Leader of the International Organization.

December 24, 2011 By 6 Comments


Harbor Springs, Michigan (PRWEB) December 23, 2011

Hammond, together with 11 industry professionals from across North America, will form one voice that governs the association and professionally managed vacation rental industry, assisting with: determining the association?s strategic vision and planning; guiding, directing and monitoring goal development and implementation; representing the association in cooperative efforts with community, state and national associations; helping to identify and nurture future association leaders and more.

 

About the Vacation Rental Managers Association (VRMA)

Founded in 1985, the VRMA is the professional trade association of the vacation rental property management and hospitality industries. Membership includes hundreds of professional vacation rental manager and associate suppliers in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean, representing tens of thousands of vacation rental, homes, condos and cottages.

 

About Holiday Vacation Rentals (HVR)

HVR manages vacation rental cottages, fine homes, and resort condominium associations. Holiday Vacation Rentals joined VRMA in 2005 and credits the Association for helping the company to develop its professional standards in vacation rental management. HVR was among the first professional management companies in Michigan to rate properties, offer any day check in, travel and property damage insurance, online bookings and has achieved the Michigan Green Lodging Certification designation. HVR on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HolidayVacationRentals

 

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Stay Aspen Snowmass Launches New Website

December 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment


Aspen, Colorado (PRWEB) December 01, 2011

Stay Aspen Snowmass is pleased to announce the launch of their new website. With a new look, the website represents the official central reservations for Aspen and Snowmass, and offers a one-stop shop for Aspen Snowmass vacations including lodging, air travel, activities, transportation, and more.

 

The new website features an integrated booking engine including detailed search options for Aspen Snowmass lodging. It provides visitors with the ability to book the perfect Colorado vacation by allowing one to build air, lodging, activities, and events into a reservation. The new website expands map functionality beyond property listings with the addition of maps to events, ski rental locations, and more.

 

?With the myriad of lodging, activities, and events in Aspen Snowmass, it is hard to capture all that Aspen Snowmass vacations have to offer in a website,? says Jill Midthun, Web and Marketing Director for Stay Aspen Snowmass. ?We are delighted to launch the new website which features all of Aspen Snowmass lodging properties, a detailed events calendar, activities information, and more.?

 

The new website is approximately thirty percent faster than the previous website. Along with the more detailed navigation, the new website is more user-friendly and is ready for the winter vacation season. Visit http://www.stayaspensnowmass.com to experience the new website and book an Aspen Snowmass vacation.

 

Stay Aspen Snowmass is the official central reservations for Aspen and Snowmass Village. SAS represents all of the Aspen and Snowmass lodging community including hotels, condos, and homes.

 

 

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Hotel Management Software Company Completes Integration with Leading Online Travel Agency Expedia.com

December 23, 2011 By 6 Comments


San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) November 30, 2011

Frontdesk Anywhere, a leading web-based hotel management software company, today announced the introduction of a ?Direct Connect? inventory and booking interface to Expedia that provides their joint customers with simplified inventory management and increased sales visibility to their properties. According to Frontdesk Anywhere co-founder, Thomas Lyle, these new integration features allow properties to send rate and inventory details as well as receive guest bookings from Expedia.com, hotels.com or any of Expedia?s other affiliate partners.

Expedia.com, one of the world?s largest online travel agencies, offers customers the ability to book at over 64,000 merchant hotels worldwide, and about 56% of those hotels connect directly to Expedia according to Expedia.com’s 2009 annual financial report. Once hotels are connected, Frontdesk Anywhere will communicate with Expedia, automatically sending and receiving changes in bookings, rate pricing and inventory availability as they occur in real-time.

?Linking my hotel management software directly to Expedia made perfect sense,? stated Eric Jursin, owner of the Tavern Hotel in Cottonwood, AZ. ?My Frontdesk Anywhere account handles all of the booking retrievals and updates the inventory availability so I no longer oversell my rooms.?

?Frontdesk Anywhere is focused on providing easy-to-use web-based hotel management software solutions,? stated Frontdesk Anywhere co-founder, Thomas Lyle. ?Integrating Expedia?s ?Direct Connect? interface into our service allows hotels to manage their inventory from within the Frontdesk Anywhere PMS while making their rooms available on the Internet. All reservations received will be available in the PMS with no manual intervention required. It?s the best of both worlds with regards to both visibility and ease of operations. We are delighted to offer this solution to our growing customer base.?

Expedia integration is available today. For more information, customers may contact Frontdesk Anywhere at 1-866-924-1949 or http://www.frontdeskanywhere.com.

ABOUT EXPEDIA.COM

Expedia, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an online travel company in the United States and internationally. It provides travel products and services to leisure and corporate travelers, offline retail travel agents, and travel service providers through a portfolio of brands, including Expedia.com, hotels.com, Hotwire.com, the TripAdvisor Media Network, Expedia Affiliate Network, Classic Vacations, Expedia Local Expert, Expedia CruiseShipCenters, Egenciatm, eLong, Inc., and Venere Net SpA. The company?s travel offerings consist of airline flights, hotel stays, car rentals, destination services, cruises, and package travel provided by various commercial airlines, lodging properties, car rental companies, destination service providers, cruise lines, and other travel product and service companies on a stand-alone and package basis. It also facilitates the booking of hotel rooms, airline seats, car rentals, and destination services from its travel suppliers; and acts as an agent in the transaction, passing reservations booked by its travelers to the relevant travel provider. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

To learn more about Expedia products and services visit http://www.expedia.com.

ABOUT FRONDESK ANYWHERE

Frontdesk Anywhere is a leading provider of innovative hotel management software for independent properties. To date, over 50,000 hotel guests have had their stay managed with Frontdesk Anywhere ? from the initial online booking process through arrival, onsite operations and checkout. The company is focused on converging processes traditionally performed by separate systems into a single all-in-one productivity application. All modules are seamlessly integrated within the application and accessible from any computer and most mobile devices. The company is a privately held corporation based in San Francisco, California.

For further information please visit FrontdeskAnywhere.com

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Fuego?s River Adventure: the First Ever Hands Free, Motion Controlled Game for the iPad

December 22, 2011 By 5 Comments


Haifa, Israel (PRWEB) November 30, 2011

In a move that will transform the way games are played on iOS, Crimson Apps? newest game, Fuego?s River Adventure, shows that touch gameplay is only the beginning of what the iPad has to offer.

 

Fuego?s River Adventure was created to show off the LokkoMotion technology, using real-time smart detection and processing technology to connect players to the game. By using the front camera of the iPad, the technology allows the player’s motions to control Fuego by jumping, moving and running side-to-side. Best of all it requires no additional hardware to the devices themselves.

 

The technology behind the game works in two ways: first by capturing and storing the images from the camera, then analyzing the captured images and recognizing movement changes to locate their current position.

 

?This is just the first step for us,? said Omri Argaman, one of Crimson Apps’ cofounders. ?Very soon we?ll be putting out a software development kit that includes this technology so other companies can use it in their games as well. Our hope is that this becomes the standard in mobile gaming for motion and gesture recognition.?

 

The game itself puts players in control of Fuego, whose vacation has suddenly taken a turn for the worse when his plane crashes. Left in the jungle, he constructs a raft to escape. Players move Fuego along the river, avoiding crocodiles and obstacles, while collecting food and gold to trade with in order to survive and find a way home.

 

Using the camera as the main control mechanism also allows for some great candid shots of players, which are displayed at the end of each level.

 

It?s the technology, however, that really pushes this game forward. Fuego?s River Adventures gives players the opportunity to have fun in their own environment in an innovative and unique way, while showing off the future of gaming and working up a sweat while doing it.

 

The app is currently available in the iTunes store for the iPad only, at a launch sale price of $ 1.99.

 

To check out Fuego?s River Adventure in the iTunes Store, click here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app//id478994144?mt=8

To check out the trailer, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK5m9qriHX8

To check out some screenshots, click here: http://photobucket.com/fuegoriveradventure

To check out the app’s website, click here: http://www.fuegosadventure.com

 

Crimson Apps: Our goal is simple: to change the way people interface, play, and control their mobile devices. We believe that human interaction is more than just speech or touch, it is our body language and movements. And our mobile devices should be controlled the same way.

 

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Raintree Vacation Club Selects Concord Servicing Corporation

December 21, 2011 By 8 Comments


Scottsdae, AZ (PRWEB) November 30, 2011

Concord Servicing Corporation, the timeshare industry?s premier third-party loan servicing and collections provider, announced today a new relationship with Raintree Vacation Club.

 

Raintree Vacation Club selected Concord Servicing to provide billing services for their ever-growing vacation club member base. Concord will now be responsible for the account management, billing and payment processing of maintenance dues and club dues for all Raintree Vacation Club Members. In addition, Raintree Vacation Club also selected Concord Servicing to be the exclusive provider of delinquency collections services through their recently launched brand, Blackwell Recovery.

 

?We are very excited to work with the team at Concord,? said Raintree CEO and Chairman Doug Bech. ?It?s clear they are the experts when it comes to managing our Members? accounts. Their deep industry knowledge and experience will certainly elevate our Members? satisfaction and, more importantly, benefit our bottom line.?

 

Known for providing leading-edge technology solutions, Concord has been the recipient of ARDA?s prestigious ARDA Circle of Excellence (ACE) Innovator of the Year Award, not once, but twice in recent years. Like many other Concord clients, Raintree Vacation Club will manage their own internal collections and customer service teams, using Concord?s award-winning Interlink.net platform.

 

According to Concord Senior Vice President Shaun O?Neill, ?Concord?s robust technology platform, coupled with a comprehensive servicing strategy, affords clients like Raintree increased efficiencies in critical operational areas, allowing them to do what they do best ? deliver great vacation experiences to their Members.?

 

To learn more about Concord Servicing Corporation, visit http://www.concordservicing.com

 

About Concord Servicing

Well known as the premier service provider within the timeshare industry since 1988, Concord provides clients with customized technology and loan servicing solutions to fit their needs. Concord has expanded the variety of asset classes they serve to include many different types of consumer installment receivables, serving both US and non-US clients. For more information, visit http://www.concordservicing.com.

 

About Raintree Vacation Club

Since 1997, Raintree Vacation Club has been Making Vacations Memorable and has been a leader in developing a vacation club and products that include flexible and term of years use rights. With a collection of twenty resorts in fifteen extraordinary destinations, we stand as a leader in our industry, offering our Members a unique blend of club, resort, and hotel-style hospitality. Our destinations and properties balance cosmopolitan flair with local flavor and natural beauty to create the quintessential vacation experience. We offer condominium-style accommodations at select resorts in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. For more information, visit http://www.raintreevacationclub.com.

 

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TayganPoint Consulting Group Rolls Out the Red Carpet

December 20, 2011 By 10 Comments


LAMBERTVILLE, NJ (PRWEB) November 29, 2011

TayganPoint consultants and clients had a great time at the Hollywood Way workshop learning the secrets of storytelling from Academy Award Winning producer, Jana Memel.

 

After 11 nominations and three wins, Memel, decided to bring her wit and storytelling expertise to business professionals through the Hollywood Way workshop, which encourages participants to ditch traditional presentation techniques and encapsulate the audience through storytelling.

 

According to Memel, emotions, not facts, trigger memories and in order for people to get the most out of a presentation, the presenter must make an emotional connection to his or her audience.

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Waldorf Astoria Orlando Debuts on Prestigious Readers Choice Awards Surveys in Cond

December 19, 2011 By 1 Comment


Orlando, FL (PRWEB) November 29, 2011

Waldorf Astoria Orlando has been named one of the top hotels in the United States and Canada by the discerning readers of Cond

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Announcing – the Art Gallery of Stanley Shirk’s WoodArt is Now Open at Cabin Creekwood

December 18, 2011 By 5 Comments


Waynesboro, VA (PRWEB) November 29, 2011

Cabin Creekwood proudly announces the addition of a brand new art gallery and studio. This gallery features the original WoodArt of Stan Shirk.

 

Stan has been an artist at heart for many years, but it is only recently, since his disability required him to leave regular employment, that he has developed this very specialized art form.

 

Stan Shirk’s WoodArt begins in the form of a photo of a scenic location from this area. The artist then hand-draws the image onto a sheet of paper, and from there transfers it to a piece of 1/4 inch plywood. The main outlines and then the details are carved out using a small handheld router.Next the artist shades sections of the image with india ink. Finally, several coats of polyurethane are sprayed onto the plywood, and it is framed to create a beautiful finished product.

 

The gallery and studio are located in the Shirk’s home at 4 Creekwood Lane, Lyndhurst, VA 22952. There the public can see all of Stan’s art, as well as the studio he works in. There is also a pictorial depiction of each step in the artistic process.

 

Artwork can also be seen and purchased online at http://www.etsy.com/shop/woodartbystanshirk.

 

The gallery is open to the public daily, whenever the Shirks are home.

 

Stan has made WoodArt reproductions of all nine of the Virginia vacation cabins at Cabin Creekwood, in addition to many historic sites in the area. He is currently working on a series involving arches of all kinds.

 

Stanley Shirk’s connection to Cabin Creekwood is more than that of resident artisan. Stan is actually the founder of Cabin Creekwood. It was back in 1981 when he and his wife Mary Jane purchased the original cabin, and as they say, the rest is history. Not only was he the founder of Cabin Creekwood, but Stan & his wife Mary Jane are parents of Deb Horst, current owner of Cabin Creekwood, and they are actively involved in the day-to-day operations.

 

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EzTimeSheet Software From Halfpricesoft.com Slashes Time Spent On Employee Time Tracking

December 18, 2011 By 292 Comments


Chicago, IL (PRWEB) November 29, 2011

In this busy holiday season, the tedious chore of tracking employee attendance and vacation no longer needs to be a concern for small business owners. Answering the demand of customers, Halfpricesoft.com (http://www.halfpricesoft.com) released the new improved ezTimeSheet employee time clock software. The new features come with this release include:

Auto-calculate PTO, leave time, vacation time, sick time based on the accrual plan
Employee leaves tracking and report
Employee vacation tracking and report

“Small business owners have enough to do without having to manually tracking employee time,” said Halfpricesoft.com founder Dr. Ge. ?We created ezTimeShee Employee TimeClock Software to free up time for more important tasks and simplify the lives of business.?

 

Developed by Halfpricesoft.com, ezTimeSheet Employee Time Tracking software is designed for non-technical business owners. Its institutive interface is so easy to understand that even people with minimal computer skills can start adding employees as soon as it’s downloaded and installed. Users simply select the activity they want to do and the graphical interface walks them step by step through the process as users point and click to make selections and choices. Explanations for each step are clear and easy to follow, with a minimal number of choices on each screen so decisions are quick and easy.

 

ezTimeSheet Employee Time Clock, which is available for free at http://www.halfpricesoft.com/time-tracking-time-sheet-download.asp, has an amazing array of features that make time-tracking and payroll tasks simple and easy, including:

Easy-to-use graphical interface that allows employees to punch in and punch out via computer
Automatic time tracking that automatically calculates gross payroll figures
Automatic check for duplicate and overlapping time entries
Administrator can enter and edit time data when necessary
Administrator can add notes to individual time entries
Flexible report features that are easy to use
Export report data to Excel, PDF or image formats for analysis and sharing
Export payment data to .CSv file for use with other software
Separate password protection for administrator and employees
Equipped for network access
Backup feature to protect database
Free updates

Priced from $ 39 (Free through TrialPay offer) with no month fee required, ezTimeSheet employee attendance and time tracking software is affordable for any business

 

To start the free test drive, visit http://www.halfpricesoft.com/time-sheet-tracking-software.asp

 

About Halfpricesoft.com and ezTimeSheet employee time clock software ezTimeSheet is developed and distributed by Halfpricesoft.com, a Louisville, Ky.-based firm committed to creating affordable and easy-to-use software for small businesses. Additional small-business payroll software titles available from Halfpricesoft.com include w2 1099 software, check printing software, ezPaycheck payroll software and barcode printing software.

 

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Newman Dailey Resort Properties Hires Tracy Louthain Communications (TLC)

December 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment


Miramar Beach, Fla. (PRWEB) November 28, 2011

Newman-Dailey Resort Properties hires Tracy Louthain Communications (TLC) to oversee its public relations program and synergize all divisions under one brand. Located along Northwest Florida’s Gulf Coast, Newman-Dailey specializes in South Walton and Destin vacation rentals, property management, real estate and association management.

 

“We have been growing the Newman-Dailey brand over the last 26 years and each line of business has been successful on its own, but we know that the brand would be even stronger if all divisions communicated one clear, concise message,” said owner Jeanne Dailey. “TLC is providing us the expertise and outside perspective to outline our core message that we want to communicate and develop a robust public relations program.”

 

Through the discovery process, Newman-Dailey simplified its lengthy description into one concise overarching message: The trusted source for resort rentals, sales and management along the Emerald Coast.

 

“The process of uncovering Newman-Dailey’s core company message and what the brand meant to its staff and customers was enlightening,” said Tracy Louthain, APR, principal at TLC. “It was refreshing to discover a company with a loyal team committed to excellence and exceptional customer service. Staff feedback and guest input was consistent, which allowed Newman-Dailey’s authentic message to illuminate quickly. Friendly, experienced, accommodating, professional and responsive were some of words that customers and clients noted, which all support the Newman-Dailey tagline–Warm welcomes since 1985.”

 

“Staff loyalty and longevity have helped Newman-Dailey earn trust and respect by our guests and clients,” continued Dailey.

 

The highly-skilled team of professionals has more than 220 collective years experience with Newman-Dailey and knows the local market well. This expertise and excellence in service has given way to many accolades including an “Excellent” rating on TripAdvisor as well as recognition as the best by the readers of Emerald Coast and Destin Magazines. In addition, the Newman-Dailey Real Estate division is consistently ranked among the top 10% of real estate companies along the Emerald Coast by the Emerald Coast Realtors Association (ECAR).

 

The public relations program will include media relations, search engine optimization (SEO) strategies, content development, community relations and social media.

 

For more information on Newman-Dailey Resort Properties, visit http://www.DestinVacation.com or call 1-800-225-7652.

 

About Newman-Dailey Resort Properties, Inc.

Newman-Dailey Resort Properties is a locally-owned business, specializing in resort rentals, sales and management in Destin and South Walton for more than 26 years. Recognized for excellence, integrity and professionalism, Newman-Dailey consistently receives “excellent” rankings on TripAdvisor, listed among the top 10 percent of real estate companies along the Emerald Coast for sales and recognition among readers as top choice for “Best of Emerald Coast” and “BESTIN DESTIN” by Emerald Coast and Destin Magazines. For more sales or rental information, call 850.837.1071, or visit online at DestinSales.com or DestinVacation.com.

 

About Tracy Louthain Communications, LLC (TLC)

TLC is a boutique, full-service public relations and communications firm, specializing in travel and tourism, entertainment, hospitality, restaurant, retail and marketing industries. TLC offers an array of services including strategic planning, media relations, writing, message and collateral development, web design, promotions, social media, and crisis communications.

For more information, visit http://www.tlc-pr.com.

 

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