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what's in a name

Interval calls it "Vistana" something when they answer the phone. I used to reach the "Starwood Desk".

I couldn't quite understand what they said with they answered the phone today, but it definitely started with Vistana.
 
lorenmd said:
i just had to call my owner's association and they answer the phone sheraton vacation club
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They've always had separate reservation phone lines for Westin and Sheraton owners (and, it appears, HRA owners and Lakeside Terrace owners!), too. They never answered the phone as "Starwood."
 
LisaRex said:
They've always had separate reservation phone lines for Westin and Sheraton owners (and, it appears, HRA owners and Lakeside Terrace owners!), too. They never answered the phone as "Starwood."
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Yet the title here says formally Stanwood.
 
LisaRex said:
They've always had separate reservation phone lines for Westin and Sheraton owners (and, it appears, HRA owners and Lakeside Terrace owners!), too. They never answered the phone as "Starwood."
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Actually they did... the II number that I used was always answered as "Starwood Desk". I usually asked if I needed to speak to someone else about my Marriott exchange and they would say that they handed both Starwood and Marriott.
 
So in the spirit of the New Year, new TUG forum software (fantastic - thank you @TUGBrian), and reorganization of the TUG forums (welcome to the top level WorldMark owners!) I thought I would dust off the cobwebs from this thread and see what others think of the Vistana forum name?

Personally I think we should now drop the "(formerly Starwood)" from the title since we are now coming up to four years since the name change and the Starwood name has now been thrown into the dustbin of history. Given the takeover by Marriott and the integration plans that are upcoming it seems that the Vistana name is also on the way out. Most communications I am getting are from the Sheraton or Westin Vacation Club rather than Vistana.

What would others think of renaming the forum to drop Starwood and incorporate the Westin and Sheraton names?

Can meets worms...discuss!
 
jabberwocky said:
So in the spirit of the New Year, new TUG forum software (fantastic - thank you @TUGBrian), and reorganization of the TUG forums (welcome to the top level WorldMark owners!) I thought I would dust off the cobwebs from this thread and see what others think of the Vistana forum name?

Personally I think we should now drop the "(formerly Starwood)" from the title since we are now coming up to four years since the name change and the Starwood name has now been thrown into the dustbin of history. Given the takeover by Marriott and the integration plans that are upcoming it seems that the Vistana name is also on the way out. Most communications I am getting are from the Sheraton or Westin Vacation Club rather than Vistana.

What would others think of renaming the forum to drop Starwood and incorporate the Westin and Sheraton names?

Can meets worms...discuss!
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I was just thinking about this yesterday too. I agree with an updated forum name.

Perhaps "Westin & Sheraton Vacation Clubs (Vistana)"

I don't think you want to leave Vistana out of the forum name since it is probably what many people searching the web will search for, in addition to Sheraton and Westin. Not sure there is a real clean way to name the forum but "(Formally Starwood)" certainly needs to go.
 
yea, we can edit the vistana title...although the term "vistana signature experiences" likely needs to stay since thats the most searched term by owners looking for info for that. (and its the name of the system)
 
speaking of searches @TUGBrian , many times we need to search short words or acronyms: RCI, VSN, SDO, WLR etc. As you know most TUGgers use those rather than the full names. The system does not allow such 2 or 3 letter searches but it would be beneficial IMO if the most commonly used would be exempted from this rule. Thank you for updating the site by the way, it is great.
 
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TUGBrian said:
yea, we can edit the vistana title...although the term "vistana signature experiences" likely needs to stay since thats the most searched term by owners looking for info for that. (and its the name of the system)
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I agree we should drop Starwood but we should retain Vistana Signature Experiences as all of my association emails come from "Vistana Signature Experiences". I would have no problem including Westin and Sheraton.
 
TUGBrian said:
yea, we can edit the vistana title...although the term "vistana signature experiences" likely needs to stay since thats the most searched term by owners looking for info for that. (and its the name of the system)
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It would seem that based on Google Trends, the term "Vistana Signature Experiences" is the least searched when compared to Westin or Sheraton Vacation Club

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The term "Vistana" dwarfs them all.
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I see no reason to have "Signature Experiences" in the name. It needlessly makes the title too long to prevent adding any reference to Sheraton or Westin in the title.
 
ok..we can tinker around with it a bit. see how it looks to folks! thats about a short as I can make it!
 
I like it! :thumbup:

Thanks Brian!
 
I like it!
 
Works for me!
 
Hilarious- this isn’t much different than someone suggested back in 2016.

Vistana (Westin & Sheraton Vacation Clubs)

of course leaves out Harborside... ;)


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DavidnRobin said:
Hilarious- this isn’t much different than someone suggested back in 2016.

Vistana (Westin & Sheraton Vacation Clubs)

of course leaves out Harborside... ;)
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It’s part of the reason why I reached back to the old thread rather than starting a new one!

Until Harborside plays nice with the rest of the family and gives elite night credits for stays they can stay in the doghouse! :p
 
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