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Let’s say you live in perhaps the densest concrete jungle in the world, New York City. You have a small studio apartment located on the 100th floor of a high-rise building. There’s hardly enough space in there for your desk, but in your heart you wish you could throw a barbecue, complete with tiki torches and a slip-n’-slide, with all of your friends laughing and drinking around the grill.

Well now you can. At 145 Ludlow Street, New York, New York, you can throw the backyard grill party of your nature-loving dreams. Dubbed a Backyard Timeshare, a group called The Participation Agency will rent out an empty patch of land right in the heart of the city to you for the low price of $50/hour.

However, just like at a movie theatre, you can’t bring your own treats. The slip-n’-slide rental will cost you a flat $100, a grill built to serve 10 people is $150, a kiddie pool is $200, and having a live band play will cost a whopping five grand. You’re also capped to no more than thirty people total, and your party must stop at 8pm. Renters will also have to buy all food from the company.

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A class-action suit was filed in San Francisco last Thursday claiming Shell Vacations charged thousands of dollars for “points” sold on Ebay for $1.
Shell Vacations Club, which has resorts all over the United States and Canada, was charged with false advertising and scamming consumers.They claimed timeshares were purchased at a “fixed cost,” there were “thousands of dollars in hidden fees” and “price increases.”

Plaintiffs purchased 2,500 points they thought they could use towards vacations all over the United States at the many SVC resorts, at a price of $14,224. They then found Ebay links to 9,700 points for $1.

Upon further internet research, a complaint from a consumer not familiar with the case read: “In the next 10 years we will be paying $50,000 to go on vacation 10 times, and that only covers the condo, not airfare, etc,” one man wrote on an online complaint forum, according to the complaint. “How is that a great investment?” Another complaint cited “”one unpleasant surprise after another” and “many lies and conveniently concealed information.”

The plaintiffs seek damages for breach of contract, breach of faith, fraud, false promises deceptive business practices and negligent misrepresentation.

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In the first time since economic downturn of 2008-2009, the travel industry is growing. Travel and tourism is being called one of the healthiest job sectors in the United States, getting back to the peak seen in 2007.

Many things drive the industry, but at its base are international travelers visit the United States, which supports 1/8th of the travel jobs. Domestic travel supports the rest.

Hotel occupancy in 2009 was at 55%, almost the lowest since the Depression. Occupancy in 2012 is projected to climb to 61%, showing a 10% growth in two years.
The travel industry is not only important to the obvious benefactors like resorts and airlines, but to an entire supply chain. Aircraft have to be built by one company, fueled by another, maintained by another.

Most service industry workers make more than minimum wage. The national average wage for a housekeeper Is $10. During the first six months of last year, the travel industry increased its workforce by 16,000 per month. Total employment has gone up by 224,000 jobs since December 2009.

Sedona Pines, of Sedona, Arizona, has been accused of pressuring an 80 year old man into a timeshare purchase he didn’t want and couldn’t afford. Ralph D’Errico and his new wife took a trip to Arizona for their one-year anniversary. During their stop in Sedona, they took what would be a harmless tour of Sedona Pines.

“It really didn’t turn out to be a tour,” D’Errico said.

Instead, he was invited to a high-pressure shark-tankesque sales pitch involving multiple timeshare salesmen. They offered him a timeshare for $25,000 and didn’t tell him about yearly maintenance fees or special assessment fees. After hours of haggling, Sedona dropped the price to $17,000. D’Errico signed and now says he can’t afford the over a $1,000 a year in additional fees. “My pension is like $9,800 a year,” he said. “So that doesn’t give you a whole heck of a lot.”

The company currently has 53 complaints lodged against them and an “F” rating with the Better Business Bureau. Arizona law allows the purchaser seven days to reneg on their timeshare contract, something D’Errico didn’t do. He has now filed a lawsuit against the company.

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Steven Wynn, the billionaire co-founder of Wynn Resorts, is getting sued by Kazuo Okada, the man who helped him start his company.

This comes less than three years after his messy 2009 divorce with wife Elaine Wynn. That resulted in her owning half of his shares in Wynn Resorts.

On January 11th Okada filed a case in Clark County, Nevada demanding access to the company’s financial records. He claims the company donated $135 million to the University of Macao, which Okada said was politically motivated.

The donation is the largest ever made in the history of any company listed on the Hong Kong stock market.

According to Okada, he spearheaded Wynn’s lucrative mood to Macau, a former Portuguese colony on China’s mainland near Hong Kong.
Mr. Okada alleges the real purpose of the large gift is a renewal of Wynn’s gaming license with the protectorate.

Mr. Wynn’s lawyers claim this is merely a money grab my Mr. Okada, who was fired from the resort’s board October 2011.

In 2008, Mr. Okada sought to open a casino in the Philippines on his own. Wynn fought bitterly against the proposal, saying it would take business away from

Macao is the fastest growing casino market in the world. In 2002 its gambling revenues totaled $2.8 billion; last year they were $33.5 billion — more than three times the revenues in all of Nevada.

Wynn’s official press release regarding the matter can be found here. Wynn Las Vegas and Wynn Macau regularly receive A-list celebrities and hundreds of thousands of visitors every year.

Okada is the already the highest percentage shareholder of Wynn Resorts at 20%. Wynn Resorts was up one cent to $39.89 during daily trading as of the time of this posting.

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