thanks. We did not bite. just wondered if any of you had heard of them. they say they have a company that takes them and rents them out for vip for conventions, etc.
VIPs for conventions
almost never stay in an off-site location. If the conference or convention is at a hotel, they stay in the hotel. If the event is at a conference center, they stay one of the conference hotels. All significant business events held at convention centers have official conference hotels - no event planner would ever organize a business conference without creating "conference hotels" at which blocks of rooms are set aside for conference attendees at reduced rates.
The reason is simple. VIPs go to the conference for visibility. Staying in an off-site, unofficial location hurts their visibility. The VIP gets the best suite in the best conference hotel, but the VIP is always on site.
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Now, when I have conferences in an area that has timeshares I sometimes try to stay on a local timeshare. But I do so only on a very limited basis. Most of the time when I'm at a conference I need to be accessible to clients and prospects. If they don't have my phone number, they need to be able to call up my room to reach me. If I stay off-site, they can't do that.
I don't want to lose business just because someone can't reach my hotel room. The same principles apply at virtually all business conferences.
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There is no market for renting timeshares to business travelers attending conferences. None. It's all a BS story concocted as a canned response to that particular question. It also works because it flatters the listener about the quality of the timeshare they own. "Hey, my unit is so nice that it's in demand from bigwig VIPs."