GRAND CROWNE RESORTS RENEWS MASTER AGREEMENT WITH INTERVAL INTERNATIONAL
Miami, Florida, April 3, 2009 – Interval International, a leading global provider of vacation services, announced the renewal of its master affiliation with Grand Crowne Resorts, a points-based vacation club in Branson, Missouri, to its vacation exchange network. The agreement covers the three Grand Crowne club resort properties – Surrey, Carriage Place, and Grand Crowne, all located in Branson and includes reservation services for the club provided by Interval Resort & Financial Services (IRFS), an affiliated company of Interval International.
Grand Crowne accommodations are spacious with full dining areas, great rooms, washers and dryers, multiple television sets, and DVD players. Other resort features include golf, spas, indoor/outdoor pools, concierge services, and activities centers. In addition to these on-site amenities, owners can enjoy all the benefits of Interval Gold®, Interval International's upgraded membership program that supplies exceptional leisure and lifestyle benefits, travel opportunities, and special offers.
“The Grand Crowne Resorts team has enjoyed great success because they provide memorable vacation experiences for their owners and guests,” said David Gilbert, executive vice president of resort sales and marketing for Interval International. “We’re very pleased to have the opportunity to continue to work with them, as they expand and enhance their existing properties and look for new growth opportunities.”
“There are several reasons why we renewed our affiliation with Interval,” said C.J. Perme, owner and president of Grand Crowne Resorts. “They do an outstanding job managing our club and are very responsive to our needs. Another deciding factor was that we wanted to be affiliated with an exchange company that had other top-notch companies in their network.”
About Interval International
Interval International operates membership programs for vacation owners and provides value-added services to its developer clients worldwide. Based in Miami, Florida, the company has been a pioneer and innovator in serving the vacation ownership market for more than 30 years. Today, Interval has a network of over 2,400 resorts in more than 75 countries and offers its resort clients and approximately 2 million member families high-quality products and programs through 25 offices in 16 countries. Interval is an operating segment of Interval Leisure Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:IILG), a leading global provider of membership and leisure services in the vacation industry.
About Grand Crowne Resorts
Established in 1991, Grand Crowne Resorts is an industry-leading developer of diversified and flexible vacation travel and ownership products with more than 20,000 owner families worldwide. Grand Crowne Resorts and Travel markets points-based vacation ownership and comprehensive travel planning services comprising more than 7 resort properties and over 1,000 fully furnished, condominium or lodge-style units in Missouri and Tennessee. Grand Crowne Resorts and Travel is headquartered in Branson, Missouri, and is supported by more than 2,000 employees. Grand Crowne has helped thousands of families save millions of dollars so they may enjoy the Grand Crowne lifestyle and a memorable vacation to the number-one family destination in the Midwest: Branson, Missouri. In 2008 alone, more than 30,000 families took advantage of Grand Crowne vacation packages and enjoyed learning more about Grand Crowne Resorts.
