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This excerpt taken from the WYN 10-K filed Feb 27, 2009.
Wyndham Vacation Ownership
 
Our vacation ownership business has its main corporate operations in Orlando, Florida pursuant to several leases, which expire beginning 2012. Our vacation ownership business also owns a contact center facility in Redmond, Washington. Our vacation ownership business leases space for administrative functions in Redmond, Washington expiring in 2013; various locations in Las Vegas, Nevada expiring between 2011 and 2017; and Margate, Florida expiring in 2010. In addition, the vacation ownership business leases approximately 112 marketing and sales offices, of which approximately 101 are throughout the United States with various expiration dates, 9 offices are in Australia expiring within approximately two years, and one office in New Zealand expiring in 2010 and one office in Canada expiring in 2010.
 
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This excerpt taken from the WYN 10-K filed Feb 29, 2008.
Wyndham Vacation Ownership
 
Our vacation ownership business has its main corporate operations in Orlando, Florida pursuant to several leases, which expire beginning 2012. Our vacation ownership business also owns a facility in Redmond, Washington and leases space for call center and administrative functions in Redmond, Washington expiring in 2013, Las Vegas, Nevada expiring in 2012 and Margate, Florida expiring in 2010. In addition, the vacation ownership business leases approximately 145 marketing and sales offices, of which approximately 125 are throughout the United States with various expiration dates, 19 offices are in Australia expiring within approximately two years, one office in New Zealand expiring in 2009 and one in Canada expiring in 2010.
 
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This excerpt taken from the WYN 10-K filed Mar 7, 2007.
Wyndham Vacation Ownership
 
Our vacation ownership business has its main corporate operations in Orlando, Florida pursuant to five leases that expire in 2007, 2008 and 2012. Our vacation ownership business also owns a facility in Redmond, Washington and leases space for call center and administrative functions in Bellevue, Washington expiring in 2013, Las Vegas, Nevada expiring in 2012 and Margate, Florida expiring in 2010. In addition, the vacation ownership business leases marketing and sales offices of approximately 121 throughout the United States with various expiration dates, 14 offices in Australia expiring within approximately two years, one office in New Zealand expiring in 2010 and one in Canada expiring in 2010.
 
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This excerpt taken from the WYN 8-K filed Jul 19, 2006.

Wyndham Vacation Ownership

Wyndham Vacation Ownership, our vacation ownership business, includes marketing and sales of vacation ownership interests, consumer financing in connection with the purchase by individuals of vacation ownership

 

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interests, property management services to property owners’ associations, and development and acquisition of vacation ownership resorts. We operate our vacation ownership business primarily through our two brands, Fairfield and Trendwest. We have the largest vacation ownership business in the world as measured by the numbers of vacation ownership resorts, vacation ownership units and owners of vacation ownership interests. We have developed or acquired over 140 vacation ownership resorts in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and the South Pacific that represent more than 18,000 individual vacation ownership units and over 750,000 owners of vacation ownership interests and other real estate interests.

We pride ourselves on the quality of the resorts in which we sell vacation ownership interests and on our customer service. We believe the quality of the resorts and our customer service result in a consistently high level of customer satisfaction as evidenced by the percentage of owners of vacation ownership interests who buy additional vacation ownership interests each year. In 2005, approximately 37% of our net sales of vacation ownership interests resulted from upgrade sales to existing owners of interests at our vacation ownership resorts.

Our portfolio of resorts includes a mix of destination resorts and drive-to resorts. The majority of the resorts in which Fairfield markets and sells vacation ownership interests are destination resorts that are located at or near attractions, such as the Walt Disney World® Resort in Florida; the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada; Hawaii; Myrtle Beach in South Carolina; and Colonial Williamsburg® in Virginia. Fairfield resorts are located primarily in the United States and, as of March 31, 2006, consisted of 72 resorts that represented approximately 13,300 units. As of March 31, 2006, there were approximately 500,000 owners of vacation ownership interests and other real estate interests in Fairfield resorts. The resorts in which Trendwest markets and sells vacation credits are primarily drive-to resorts that are located in closer proximity to regions in which our owners and prospective owners reside. Trendwest resorts are located primarily in the Western United States, Canada, Mexico and the South Pacific and, as of March 31, 2006, consisted of 69 resorts that represented approximately 4,900 units. As of March 31, 2006, there were over 250,000 owners of vacation credits in Trendwest resorts.

Our vacation ownership brands, Fairfield and Trendwest, operate vacation ownership programs through which vacation ownership interests can be redeemed for vacations through points-based internal reservation systems that provide owners with flexibility (subject to availability) as to resort location, length of stay, unit type and time of year. The points-based reservation systems offer owners redemption opportunities for a wide variety of travel and leisure products, including airfare, cruises, and specialized leisure activities and attractions, and the opportunity for owners to use our products for one or more vacations per year based on level of ownership. Our vacation ownership programs allow us to market and sell our vacation ownership products in variable quantities as opposed to the fixed quantity of the traditional, fixed-week vacation ownership, which is primarily sold on a weekly interval basis, and to offer to existing owners “upgrade” sales to supplement such owners’ existing vacation ownership interests. FairShare Plus, formed in 1991, is Fairfield’s points-based internal reservation system. Our Trendwest brand operates two points-based vacation ownership programs, WorldMark, the Club, formed in 1989, and WorldMark South Pacific Club, formed in 2000, which we refer to collectively as the Clubs.

Our vacation ownership business also provides consumer finance and property management services. We offer financing to the purchasers of vacation ownership interests. Providing consumer financing reduces the initial cash required by customers to purchase vacation ownership interests, thereby enabling us to attract additional customers and generate substantial incremental profits. Similar to other companies that provide consumer financing, we securitize a majority of the receivables originated in connection with selling products, which in our case are vacation ownership interests. As of March 31, 2006, we serviced a portfolio of approximately 236,000 loans that totaled $2,272 million in aggregate principal amount outstanding. Our property management business generally provides day-to-day management for vacation ownership resorts, including oversight of housekeeping services, maintenance and refurbishment of the units, and provides certain accounting and administrative services to property owners’ associations.

 

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Our vacation ownership business derives a majority of its revenues from the sales of vacation ownership interests and derives other revenues from consumer financing and property management. For the three months ended March 31, 2006 and the full year ended December 31, 2005, our vacation ownership business, which is the same business that Cendant currently refers to as the Timeshare Resorts business, contributed approximately 51% and 54% of our revenues, respectively, and approximately 35% and 37% of our combined segment EBITDA, respectively.

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