11/16/2009 Baltimore, Maryland - Travel Advantage Network (TAN), one of the largest travel clubs in the United States with more than 85,000 clients, has chosen TimeShareWare as its enterprise technology platform. TAN sells packages of vacation weeks in as many as 1500 resorts throughout the world. They cited TimeShareWare’s superior technology as one of the main reasons they chose TimeShareWare over the other software solutions on the market.
TAN will install the entire TimeShareWare Enterprise suite of software modules, including Sales, Marketing, Accounting, Reservations, Property Management, Advanced Commissions, and Web Services. TAN will be completely live on the new system by the end of this year.
Andrew Spicer, General Manager at Travel Advantage Network, was first introduced to TimeShareWare at the American Resort Development Association (ARDA) Convention and was impressed with the flexibility and best practices inherent in the software. “TAN has experienced aggressive growth in the past several years. Initially, we intended to just purchase a generic software platform and develop a custom system for our needs. However, after reviewing TimeShareWare Enterprise we realized we could utilize the functionality already within the Enterprise platform. Now we can leverage our internal development team to polish off the remainder of our specific requirements using the built-in client customization tools already within TimeShareWare Enterprise. We will save months of time and tens of thousands of dollars.”
Brian Harrison, Business Analyst at Travel Advantage Network, said, “We evaluated several vacation club systems before deciding on TimeShareWare Enterprise. Our decision was made due to Enterprise’s built-in capabilities and easy-to-use interface. The operational efficiencies that we will gain as a company make the ROI on this project an unbeatable value.”
Timo Jones, President and CEO of TimeShareWare, says, “Working with a company like TAN is just the type of partnership we strive to develop with all of our clients. When Andy Spicer came to our offices to finalize their decision, he recognized the inherent value in not only our superior technology and products, but also of our dedicated staff of 60 employees who wake up every morning anxious and excited to improve the world’s best software. We were glad that the deeper he dug, the more satisfied he became. We look forward to strengthening our partnership and bringing them additional value as our relationship grows.”
About Travel Advantage Network:
Travel Advantage Network, established in 1992, is the recognized leader in the vacation club industry. Through TAN’s extensive network of resort organizations, vacation property owners, and real estate professionals, they are able to provide their 85,000 clients with exciting vacation opportunities at substantially lower prices. TAN has been acquiring large quantities of inventory from some of the top vacation properties and the savings are passed on to their clients.
TAN is an active member and sponsor of the American Resort Development Association (ARDA), Cooperative Association of Resort Exchangers (CARE), Vacation Rental Management Association (VRMA), The Executive Committee (TEC, peer management counseling group), Young President’s Organization (YPO), The Association of Timeshare Owners Committees (TATOC), Caribbean Tourism Association (CTO), Customer Care Institute (CCI), and Better Business Bureau (BBB).
For more information on the Travel Advantage Network, please visit their website at: www.planwithtan.com.
