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Marriott Grande Vista
Marriott Harbour Lake
Sheraton Vistana Villages
Club Wyndham CWA
Vistana is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marriott Vacations Worldwide. It is not publicly traded. Marriott Vacations Worldwide is a publicly traded company under the ticker VAC. Marriott Vacations Worldwide owns Marriott Vacation Club. Currently, Marriott Vacation Club and Vistana operate independently very likely with separate management structures inside Marriott Vacations Worldwide. They also run two separate independant resort systems that Marriott is trying to bring together with a combined product/system. But to say Vistana is publicly traded is incorrect.Vistana is currently the same as it ever was. It is a publicly traded stand alone company. It's possible that Vistana could go away and we will become MVC properties. It's also possible, Vistana will remain a publicly traded company and there will be a new club allowing trading between MVC and Vistana. I tend to think it will stay a separate company at least in the short term because I have heard so very many times that nothing will change within Vistana. Still, we won't know for sure until the change happens. Marriott has announced that they will sell a product in the future that includes Marriott, Sheraton, and Westin. This makes me think there might be a full merger down the road.
Vistana on its own hasn't been a separate company since the 1990s prior to it being acquired by Starwood to create Starwood Vacation Ownership. Starwood, the hotel company, then sold itself to Marriott International (hotel company). Just prior to doing so, it renamed the Starwood Vacation Ownership to Vistana Signature Experiences then spun it off and sold it to Interval Leisure Group, which owned a number of companies. One of which was Interval International. ILG was a publicly traded company that then later sold itself to Marriott Vacations Worldwide.