AIF State of the Vacation Timeshare Industry: United States Study, 2010 Edition, prepared by Ernst and Young

This report comes from a newly released State of the Vacation Timeshare Industry: United States Study, 2010 Edition. Back in 2009 the timeshare industry had reported an average of 79.7% occupancy. The hotel industry only managed 54.7% which would suggest that the timeshare industry is doing quite well.

The data basically states that for the most part timeshare resorts are maintaining an occupancy rate above 50%. Aside from a minority 12% of responding resorts that participated in this survey, only United States resorts were included, reported an occupancy rate below 60%. Not only are there very few resorts with under a 60% occupancy, but about 50% of all surveyed resorts have 80% occupancy rates, and 34% are as much as 90% occupied.

This report gives credence to the fact that timeshares are put to good use, however there has yet to be data about the majority of timeshare owners. Transfer America knows that there are timeshare owners who are trying to get out of their timeshares. The reasons for these owners trying to find exit solutions is due to a number of reasons, financial or otherwise. But the fact remains that there should be more viable methods of getting out of your timeshare contract, and this is why Transfer America was started, to provide a guaranteed timeshare exit solution to those who are no longer interested in timeshare ownership.