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Abound! The combined Marriott/Vistana integrated exchange program now has a name.

Moderator Note: This thread will serve as the first to start delving into the known and verified official information from Marriott/Vistana about the integration and Abound. If what you want to talk about is still speculation, please use either of these threads:

Marriott TUG Forum: Thread Dedicated to the Upcoming Anticipated Integration ...
Vistana TUG Forum: Thread Dedicated to the Upcoming Anticipated Integration ...

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@Aviator621, thanks for this post and congratulations on beating everyone else to the punch! (Don't laugh - it's a "get" considering all the people waiting for it!) I hope you don't mind I've changed the title a bit to help with the invariable searches. :)
 
SueDonJ said:
@Aviator621, thanks for this post and congratulations on beating everyone else to the punch! (Don't laugh - it's a "get" considering all the people waiting for it!) I hope you don't mind I've changed the title a bit to help with the invariable searches. :)
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It was posted over in the Vistana forum about 20 minutes earlier...
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dioxide45 said:
It was posted over in the Vistana forum about 20 minutes earlier...
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Yep, I considered that as soon as I'd posted and just finished editing my post. Doh!
 
Perhaps this should still be combined with the ongoing thread in the Marriott forum as to not fragment the discussion?
 
dioxide45 said:
It was posted over in the Vistana forum about 20 minutes earlier...
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C'mon, just let me feel important and in the know! :ROFLMAO:
 
Who comes up with these names? Clearly the Bonvoy people weren’t canned after that dumb name.

Will we start claiming we got Abounded?
 
buzglyd said:
Who comes up with these names? Clearly the Bonvoy people weren’t canned after that dumb name.

Will we start claiming we got Abounded?
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@NiteMaire coined a term Abounced.
 
I actually don't mind the name "Abound". Much better than what I originally thought of Bonvoy. Sadly, they probably spend tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars for some marketing group to come up with these.
 
dioxide45 said:
Perhaps this should still be combined with the ongoing thread in the Marriott forum as to not fragment the discussion?
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No, I don't think so. The way that DaveM handled the transition from speculation about the Destination Club to specifics when it was officially introduced, which included eventually closing that monster spec thread, is a good precedent for separating speculation from reality. Plus keeping this thread separate - with the Abound title prominent - will make it easy to find when the details start coming out.
 
dioxide45 said:
I actually don't mind the name "Abound". Much better than what I originally thought of Bonvoy. Sadly, they probably spend tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars for some marketing group to come up with these.
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It’s like when the marketing group sat around for days and came up with Jeb!
 
The small and petty in me got a chuckle out of SurfWatch's beachfront pool getting a place of prominence in the Abound promotional video (thinking of you, Marty ;)) but otherwise, I WANT DETAILS.

Oh, I do like the name for whatever that's worth.
 
SueDonJ said:
The small and petty in me got a chuckle out of SurfWatch's beachfront pool getting a place of prominence in the Abound promotional video (thinking of you, Marty ;)) but otherwise, I WANT DETAILS.

Oh, I do like the name for whatever that's worth.
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That Surfwatch clip was the only one that I could actually recognize from an actual MVC or Vistana property. Everything else looked to be b-roll that could have come from any of the dozens of online services that sell b-roll video. They even titled one of their videos as Abound-Manifesto-B-Roll.
 
dioxide45 said:
That Surfwatch clip was the only one that I could actually recognize from an actual MVC or Vistana property. Everything else looked to be b-roll that could have come from any of the dozens of online services that sell b-roll video. They even titled one of their videos as Abound-Manifesto-B-Roll.
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So what you're effectively saying is, Marriott considers SurfWatch to be THE BEST SUPERDUPER RESORT IN ALL THE WORLD, right? That's what I thought, too.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Now as moderator, I intend to clear out all these silly fluff posts from the start of this thread when details about Abound start emerging. Feel free to join in the fun, but don't post anything that you want saved for posterity. :)
 
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So this just seems like a rebranding of the Destinations Program?
 
dioxide45 said:
So this just seems like a rebranding of the Destinations Program?
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That's what I'm wondering, was actually just writing a post asking if you know where/how to search for the legal papers that show a name change if that's what's happening??
 
SueDonJ said:
That's what I'm wondering, was actually just writing a post asking if you know where/how to search for the legal papers that show a name change if that's what's happening??
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I don't know if there is any legal paperwork on a name change, but it was posted in the similar thread in the Vistana forum that they did register the new name. They could simply register the new name, start using it and drop all references to the old name in marketing.
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Steve Fatula said:
New Website?? Uh oh...
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I got the impression that the new website reference may just be a marketing site and not something we would all use to make reservations.
 
I have registered for the Marriott Vacations Worldwide Investor Day presentation which starts at 12:30pm EDT. I will report back later today. It lasts until after 4pm.

Here are three slides on ABOUND from the presentation deck:

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I really dislike the Vistana name. I hope everything changes to the Abound name.
 
Now do we have to start calling them A-Points vs DC points?
 
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