Tim Barker
of the Sentinel Staff
Posted April 25, 2001
Here's a quick pop quiz: You've spent $15,000 to guarantee yourself the right to come back to the same tourist
resort for one week of every year.
You:
A) Bought a time share.
B) Bought membership in a vacation club.
C) Bought time at a vacation ownership resort.
Many in the time-share industry are wrestling over what the correct answer should be.
For more than a decade, many of the folks who hawk time shares have tried to distance themselves from the industry's
shady past -- marked by questionable sales tactics and shaky financing -- by using fancy names such as vacation
ownership, vacation clubs and interval ownership.