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• The evolution of the Destination Club Industry.
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• What are members saying about the lifestyle that their membership provides?
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Here is the WebEx link

https://eval.webex.com/mw0305l/myweb...Deval%26%26%26

Event Information: Ultimate Escapes Destination Club Webinar

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Date and time: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 10:00 am
Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00, San Francisco)
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Duration: 1 hour

TarheelTraveler

A friend of mine who is starting to look at DCs signed up for the UE webinar, and I listened in out of curiosity. He doesn't participate in this forum, so I thought that I would do a quick summary.

Here's what I took out of the webinar:

No Q&A section, but could submit questions via email after seminar or talk to a sales representative
Nice overview of the concept and history (without discussion of any of the speed bumps (it is a sales presentation after all ))
Highlighted some of the best UE properties
Members travel an average of 28 days (twice as much as before they joined UE)
Average stay of 4 to 4 1/2 days
Unlike other vacation options, "every moment on vacation, you're on vacation"
Did a good job in explaining why this is so
Additional consolidation in the industry will occur
Major hospitality brands are entering the industry
Seeing compounded growth in the industry
5M households capable of acquiring a membership
1% market penetration by early adopters; 6,000-6,500 members (I couldn't get numbers to jive, so 1% market penetration must be based on something else)
Ragatz predicts 5% market penetration within 5 years, 10% by 2018
UE has between 1,300 and 1,400 members
Had some nice testimonials from members (said that they could have had 25 pages of testimonials)
UE advantages:
Only DC with 3 club levels
6 travel options within each club
Plan flexibility
Best value on market
Most single destinations

Overall, I thought the webinar was a nice introduction to the DC industry and UE specifically. Obviously, it left out some things that we on this forum would want to know and any negatives, but again, it is a sales presentation.

The DCA really ought to think about putting a webinar on its future website that provides an education on DCs. It's very rare that anyone I talk to knows what a DC is. If they do, it's only when they know someone who is a member and then they typically have some vague understanding of it.

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The Webinar is now available to anyone online

https://eval.webex.com/ec0600l/event...b&format=short