2011
DOI: 10.1002/jtr.843
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The European Timeshare Consumer in the Twenty‐First Century

Abstract: This paper outlines the results of the most recent pan-European survey of timeshare and its owners. The paper begins by placing timeshare in context of the European leisure sector and outlining previous research on timeshare. It then goes on to examine the results of a major survey of timeshare owners and the industry. The results unveil the profile of timeshare owners in Europe, their purchasing behaviour and their future intentions; it also looks into the satisfaction of the timeshare experience. The survey … Show more

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“…Researchers have quoted innumerous sources during their quest for the correct timeshare definition, such as Florida Civil Code (Ragas, 1986); the Oxford Dictionary (Sharma and Chowdhary, 2012); the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (Savage, 2008), the Timeshare consumer's association (Sharma and Chowdhary, 2012), the Organization for Timeshare in Europe (Cortés-Jiménez et al, 2012;Stavrinoudis, 2006), as well as different books on timeshare (Hahm et al, 2007;Huang et al, 2011). In addition, some authors have pointed out that the term timesharing was borrowed "from the computer industry" .…”
Section: The Conceptmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Researchers have quoted innumerous sources during their quest for the correct timeshare definition, such as Florida Civil Code (Ragas, 1986); the Oxford Dictionary (Sharma and Chowdhary, 2012); the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (Savage, 2008), the Timeshare consumer's association (Sharma and Chowdhary, 2012), the Organization for Timeshare in Europe (Cortés-Jiménez et al, 2012;Stavrinoudis, 2006), as well as different books on timeshare (Hahm et al, 2007;Huang et al, 2011). In addition, some authors have pointed out that the term timesharing was borrowed "from the computer industry" .…”
Section: The Conceptmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Perhaps this is due to the continued expansion of the segment and presence of global lodging brands (ARDA, 2010; Gregory, 2011; Kaufman et al , 2011) or recent economic improvements (ARDA International Foundation, 2014). Certainly, opportunities for further investigation in this area exist as researchers have recently only investigated Singapore (Chiang, 2011), and Europe (Cortés-Jiménez et al , 2003).…”
Section: The Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Cortés-Jiménez et al (2003) conducted a Web-based survey of existing timeshare owners who were members of a major exchange provider. The international study included 33,098 respondents from 12 countries.…”
Section: The Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The majority of timeshare research has focused on the marketing and purchasing processes [16][17][18]. Other research has looked at consumer satisfaction [15,16,[19][20][21][22][23]. Very little research has been conducted on performance of timeshare resorts as regard to the management structure.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%