Shell Names Hawaii Regional Director

Press Release
April 5, 2001
NORTHBROOK, IL -- Shell Vacations, LLC has recently promoted Robert Foster, RRP, to Regional Director - Hawaii, with responsibility for providing executive leadership for all employees at Shell's four Hawaii vacation ownership resorts. These resorts include: The Holua Resort at Mauna Loa Village, the Kona Coast Resort in Kailua-Kona, Paniolo Greens in Waikola- all on the Big Island of Hawaii- and the Kauai Coast Resort at the Beachboy on Kauai. Foster and his staff will lead the marketing, sale and operation of the point-based Shell Vacations Club in the Hawaiian Islands.

According to Simon Crawford-Welch, Shell Vacations LLC's Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing, "Robert has been with us for several years now holding positions at our Starr Pass Resort in Tucson, Arizona; in our San Francisco operations and most recently at the Kauai Coast Resort at the Beachboy in Kauai, Hawaii. During his tenure with this company Robert has consistently taken fledgling sales operations to higher levels of performance. There is no doubt that he will lead our Hawaii operations to new heights of success."

A veteran of 22 years in the vacation ownership industry, Foster has served in the vacation ownership industry in Daytona Beach, Florida and in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where he directed sales at 5 resorts with over 100 sales representatives.

Shell Vacations is one of North America's largest independent vacation ownership developers with 14 vacation ownership resorts in Hawaii, California, Arizona and Canada.

For additional information on the company: www.ShellVacationsClub.com

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For Additional Information, 
Please Contact
Marge Lennon at 941-482-3891 
     or 
Robert Foster at 808-645-0293