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Article by Alison Withers

Copyright (c) 2010 Alison Withers

The concept of buying a share of holiday apartment, lodge or villa in a resort, known as timeshare, is now more than 30 years old.

The most common method is to purchase club membership but it’s also possible to buy either a freehold, leasehold or licence shareholding to use the accommodation for an agreed number of weeks per year and for a fixed number of years. You will have to pay an annual maintenance fee once the initial purchase is made.

Usually two weeks ineach year are set aside for maintenance when the accommodation is not available to timeshare owners.

In conjunction with all the other share owners you will be a member of the home owners’ association, usually set up by covenant to cover the buildings’ continued management.

Timeshare can provide high quality holidays at a cheaper rate because the developer has no ongoing promotion costs. In essence once the start up costs have been covered, the accommodation is self catering and has guaranteed occupancy through the time share system, so that some of the savings can be passed on to the time share scheme members.

Another benefit is that there are no reservation problems as there might be with a hotel and you can have guests or a couple of friends to stay. You can budget well in advance for your holiday and take advantage of deals on services like air fares and car hire.

While the units are self-catering, meaning you are not tied to hotel meal times, there are usually on-site bars, restaurants and snack bars for times when you don’t feel like cooking for yourself.

The result is a holiday at a level of luxury and freedom of movement that you might not otherwise be able to afford.

One of the disadvantages of the time share scheme may be that you don’t want to holiday in the same place year after year. However, in the mid-1970s an international exchange scheme was set up allowing people to swap time and place whenever they feel the need.

In the early days the industry developed a bad name partly due to over-zealous selling to hapless holiday-makers in European resorts and partly due to a number of over optimistic developers using their time share apartments as collateral for funding other projects.

While much tighter regulation has been introduced since the early days it still makes sense to ensure that safeguards are built into the timeshare agreement to protect your investment against a downturn in sales or the financial reversal of the developer.

It isn’t a common problem, but there is a possibility that the developer’s property could be taken over by the bank if there are cash flow problems, perhaps because the sale of units has been sluggish, and then the apartments could be rented out as longer term accommodation.

Once some apartments have been sold as time shares, however, it can be difficult to change the project’s nature, so the mroe timeshares are sold the greater the security for each owner becomes.

On the whole, maintenance once all the units have been sold should not be a problem since it’s controlled by the timeshare owners themselves control the management through their membership of the home owners’ association.

Thirty years later time share holiday schemes have matured, are much better regulated and increasingly popular, provided you have done your homework and checked not only that the resort is right for you, but also that the terms of the initial purchase agreement and protection against excessive increases in maintenance fees are robust and that the scheme is a member of a reputable time share trade association.

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A timeshare holiday can offer choice, flexibility and a degree of luxury that might otherwise be unaffordable. But although the industry is much better regulated than it was when it started 30 years ago it’s still sensible to check the terms and conditions of the agreement before buying. Consumer journalist Ali Withers reports.http://www.club-labourse.com

http://goarticles.com/article/Timeshare-Holidays-Offer-Flexibility-and-Affordability-Provided-You-Research-the-Scheme-Properly/3223314/

Just before 6 to 7 years, air travel was considered as beyond a common man’s reach since not many people were able to afford the air fare. 

However, the scenario has completely changed now with so many airlines competing with each other resulting in reducing the air travel fares considerably. With top airlines slashing fares considerably, almost everyone these days prefer to fly by air.

With growing competition in the air travel industry, the airlines are now opting for a low fare strategy to fill up their seats. This has given an opportunity for the middle class people to travel by air at affordable prices. 

Since the beginning of the recession, there was a slight dip in the air traffic and therefore many of the airlines ending up in losses for a couple of quarters.

What are the reasons for reduction of fares?

There were many reasons why airlines reduced fares in 2009. Apart from cutthroat competition by rival airliners, they had to contend with reduced recession. 

Due to recession, the air traffic had dipped significantly as there were very few fliers travelling. To cover the costs of operation, the airliners were forced to give up profits and cover the losses and thereby introduced low air fares to attract the travelers.

The reduced fares opened the opportunity for many first time fliers, and they grabbed it gleefully with both hands. With low fare flying becoming a reality, many travelers in India used it as the best time to travel between south and north for sightseeing.

Is reduced Air fare still available? 

Airlines India has experienced a lot of changes in the past 2-3 years. As of now, many Airlines have stopped offering low fares to their customers, since they had to cover the increasing fuel costs and operation costs. 

Many airlines have opted to reduce carrying extra weight in the aircraft to reduce fuel consumption and have used that amount for operating the flight. 

One can still avail lesser air fares in India by booking the airlines tickets at least one month prior to the journey. Many airlines in India provide air tickets with almost 50-60 % discount if the customer books the ticket one month prior to the date of journey. 

To avail such offers, you will need to plan your journey well in advance in order to ensure airline ticket bookings much earlier than your journey dates.

How to book tickets:

Booking your air tickets have been made easier with the introduction of internet into our lives. Now you can book your air tickets of any airlines India from your own living rooms. 

Almost every airlines website provides the facility of internet ticket booking and thereby people can easily check the timings of their flight and book them at their leisure time.

Airline ticket bookings don’t require anybody’s intervention since everything is available on net. You need to have either a credit card or internet banking account in order to book the tickets online. It is simple, faster and reliable. If you still find it difficult to book the air ticket, you could also just walk to your travel agent and book the ticket.

Just before 6 to 7 years, air travel was considered as beyond a common man’s reach since not many people were able to afford the air fare. 

However, the scenario has completely changed now with so many airlines competing with each other resulting in reducing the air travel fares considerably. With top airlines slashing fares considerably, almost everyone these days prefer to fly by air.

With growing competition in the air travel industry, the airlines are now opting for a low fare strategy to fill up their seats. This has given an opportunity for the middle class people to travel by air at affordable prices. 

Since the beginning of the recession, there was a slight dip in the air traffic and therefore many of the airlines ending up in losses for a couple of quarters.

What are the reasons for reduction of fares?

There were many reasons why airlines reduced fares in 2009. Apart from cutthroat competition by rival airliners, they had to contend with reduced recession. 

Due to recession, the air traffic had dipped significantly as there were very few fliers travelling. To cover the costs of operation, the airliners were forced to give up profits and cover the losses and thereby introduced low air fares to attract the travelers.

The reduced fares opened the opportunity for many first time fliers, and they grabbed it gleefully with both hands. With low fare flying becoming a reality, many travelers in India used it as the best time to travel between south and north for sightseeing.

Is reduced Air fare still available? 

Airlines India has experienced a lot of changes in the past 2-3 years. As of now, many Airlines have stopped offering low fares to their customers, since they had to cover the increasing fuel costs and operation costs. 

Many airlines have opted to reduce carrying extra weight in the aircraft to reduce fuel consumption and have used that amount for operating the flight. 

One can still avail lesser air fares in India by booking the airlines tickets at least one month prior to the journey. Many airlines in India provide air tickets with almost 50-60 % discount if the customer books the ticket one month prior to the date of journey. 

To avail such offers, you will need to plan your journey well in advance in order to ensure airline ticket bookings much earlier than your journey dates.

How to book tickets:

Booking your air tickets have been made easier with the introduction of internet into our lives. Now you can book your air tickets of any airlines India from your own living rooms. 

Almost every airlines website provides the facility of internet ticket booking and thereby people can easily check the timings of their flight and book them at their leisure time.

Airline ticket bookings don’t require anybody’s intervention since everything is available on net. You need to have either a credit card or internet banking account in order to book the tickets online. It is simple, faster and reliable. If you still find it difficult to book the air ticket, you could also just walk to your travel agent and book the ticket.

Just before 6 to 7 years, air travel was considered as beyond a common man’s reach since not many people were able to afford the air fare. 

However, the scenario has completely changed now with so many airlines competing with each other resulting in reducing the air travel fares considerably. With top airlines slashing fares considerably, almost everyone these days prefer to fly by air.

With growing competition in the air travel industry, the airlines are now opting for a low fare strategy to fill up their seats. This has given an opportunity for the middle class people to travel by air at affordable prices. 

Since the beginning of the recession, there was a slight dip in the air traffic and therefore many of the airlines ending up in losses for a couple of quarters.

What are the reasons for reduction of fares?

There were many reasons why airlines reduced fares in 2009. Apart from cutthroat competition by rival airliners, they had to contend with reduced recession. 

Due to recession, the air traffic had dipped significantly as there were very few fliers travelling. To cover the costs of operation, the airliners were forced to give up profits and cover the losses and thereby introduced low air fares to attract the travelers.

The reduced fares opened the opportunity for many first time fliers, and they grabbed it gleefully with both hands. With low fare flying becoming a reality, many travelers in India used it as the best time to travel between south and north for sightseeing.

Is reduced Air fare still available? 

Airlines India has experienced a lot of changes in the past 2-3 years. As of now, many Airlines have stopped offering low fares to their customers, since they had to cover the increasing fuel costs and operation costs. 

Many airlines have opted to reduce carrying extra weight in the aircraft to reduce fuel consumption and have used that amount for operating the flight. 

One can still avail lesser air fares in India by booking the airlines tickets at least one month prior to the journey. Many airlines in India provide air tickets with almost 50-60 % discount if the customer books the ticket one month prior to the date of journey. 

To avail such offers, you will need to plan your journey well in advance in order to ensure airline ticket bookings much earlier than your journey dates.

How to book tickets:

Booking your air tickets have been made easier with the introduction of internet into our lives. Now you can book your air tickets of any airlines India from your own living rooms. 

Almost every airlines website provides the facility of internet ticket booking and thereby people can easily check the timings of their flight and book them at their leisure time.

Airline ticket bookings don’t require anybody’s intervention since everything is available on net. You need to have either a credit card or internet banking account in order to book the tickets online. It is simple, faster and reliable. If you still find it difficult to book the air ticket, you could also just walk to your travel agent and book the ticket.