Nominations Close This Week For Perspective Magazine Timeshare And Fractional Awards Program

Dec. 19, 2011 - PRLog -- Timeshare and fractional companies planning to enter the Perspective Magazine Awards Program, sponsored by Holiday Systems International, only have until the end of this week to submit their entries and become part of the most comprehensive, global awards program of its kind in the industry. Winners will be announced at the conclusion of the Global Networking Expo, GNEX 2012 – A Global Meeting of Minds, in Cancun, Mexico.

Perspective Magazine ( http://perspectivemagazine.com ) created the awards program, with its exclusive online voting system, to allow companies from around the world to vie for the global recognition that comes from the largest, most widely read independent information provider in the timeshare and fractional industry.  

After the close of nominations, entries will be posted on the GNEX 2012 conference section of the Perspective Magazine website at http://perspectivemagazine.com/gnex and online voting will begin during the first week of January, 2012. Once the nominations go live on the website, an announcement will be made through the company’s website and social media platforms and industry professionals will be asked to register an account on the website to maintain the credibility and accountability of the process. Once registered, voters can review the nominations and vote for their favorite company or individual.

Voting will take place for three weeks in January, with online votes to be combined with the decisions of a select panel of judges to determine the winners. Those winners will be announced the evening of February 2nd during a marvelous Gala dinner, at the Hacienda Tres Rios Resort, to conclude GNEX 2012.

Categories will include the always desirable awards of “Best Timeshare Resort” and “Best Fractional Resort”, with additional classifications covering areas such as management companies, marketing programs, legal services, financial services, design and media awards. New categories have been added such as an expansion of the “Best Developer Partner” category to include nominees from companies with more than 50 employees and also less than 50 employees. Individual awards have been included for sales and marketing professionals, entrepreneurs and the “Best Industry Leader”.  

GNEX 2012, slated for January 31st – February 2nd, 2012, at the fabulous Ritz Carlton Cancun in Cancun, Mexico, will discuss the industry from a global viewpoint as resort professionals gather for the first industry event of the year to create business opportunities and develop strategic partnerships. Innovative networking events will be combined with interactive panel discussions and presentations to foster open, and sometimes controversial, discussion on the state of the vacation ownership industry. A networking lounge will be available to give attendees valuable opportunities to conduct business and delegates will also have access to all nightly social events included in their registration in addition to the Perspective Magazine Awards Gala dinner.

For more information and to find out how your company can enter the 2012 Perspective Magazine Awards Program, please visit http://perspectivemagazine.com/gnex.

Sponsors and supporters of GNEX 2012 include:
Blue Strawberry Resorts,  Holiday Systems International, Sunset World Resorts, Dial an Exchange, Resort Television, Travel To Go, Interval International, Lloydshare, RCI, BuyaTimeshare.com, First American Title Insurance Company, Merlin Software, SellMyTimeshareNow.com, Track Results Software, Travel Guard, Circle One BlueBay Resort, El Cid Vacation Club, Royal Resorts, Alternative Ownership Conference Asia Pacific (AOCAP), Australian Timeshare and Holiday Ownership Council (ATHOC), Cooperative Association of Resort Exchangers (CARE), Canadian Resort Development Association (CRDA), The Pacific Institute, Ragatz Associates Fractional Interest Conference, Resort Development Organisation (RDO), The Association for Timeshare Owners Committees (TATOC), Vacation Ownership Association of Southern Africa (VOASA), Women in the Industry (WIN) and Christel House International as Charity of Choice.

About Perspective Magazine
Perspective Magazine is the leading independent, multi-media information provider for the shared ownership industry. The company publishes regional brands covering North America, Europe & Middle East, South Africa, Asia Pacific and soon to be launched in Latin America. The magazines are, combined, the most read independent trade publications globally for the vacation ownership industry.

The company’s consumer magazine, Owners Perspective Magazine, is the only independent consumer publication that specializes in promoting the benefits of buying shared ownership products to the general public and is also available as a specially customized developer edition for lead generation, in-room marketing and third party sales collateral. Owners Perspective Magazine’s online version, http://ownersperspective.com, also features a new guaranteed lead generation program specifically designed for resorts and developers. The site will host the company’s latest endeavor, Vacation TV, a streaming 24/7 online video channel full of information about vacation ownership products and services.

Perspective Magazine also operates a recruitment advertising service through TimeshareStaff.com ( http://timesharestaff.com ),  fractional property listing services and a customized in-room Resort Television product that encourages on-site spending and vacation ownership sales.

GNEX is the company’s annual global networking expo which gathers the top industry professionals from around the world to network, create new strategic alliances and develop joint ventures that can benefit their businesses.

Perspective Magazine also publishes online through http://perspectivemagazine.com, hosts an online community of industry professionals through Perspective Forums, engages a social media audience of over 44,000 followers through its corporate social media accounts and is a media sponsor of 30 major industry events around the world.

For more information, please visit http://perspectivemagazine.com or email Steve Luba at steveluba(at)perspectivemagazine.com. For information on advertising and editorial opportunities visit  http://perspectivemagazine.com/advertise.