An optimistic outlook for vacation homes according to the 2008 Annual Wealth Report by property consultants, Knight Frank, and Citi Private Bank. Check it out here.

"80% of all travel is planned and booked by women today," said Betsy O'Rourke, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Wyndham Worldwide. Read this report to learn more.

Wyndham chief executive Stephen Holmes, in a telephone interview to Reuters, just after reporting quarterly earnings, , saidthat despite the mortgage crisis and rising price of gas, Americans really valued their vacation time as they were  either going to spend money on a hotel room somewhere, or on renting a condominium or use their timeshare, which they have probably already paid for. A report by Harris Interactive, a polling and research group, which for seven years has examined trends in unused vacation days for Expedia.com, an Internet travel booking company, found that an estimated 438 million vacation days were failed to be taken advantage of by Americans during 2007. Whatever the reason for giving up their (lost) holidays, Americans should mull over this: The 438 million days were worth about $60 billion!!!

Government is currently working on a Timeshare legislation to re-introduce the concept of vacation ownership to the Jamaican market, which it believes will be a gateway for the country to penetrate the luxury tourism market.

Many know Donald Trump as a hard nosed businessman. Here’s why. His group believes the social and economic impacts of a proposed resort outweigh negative environmental impacts. That’s confidence personified!