Cultivating the aptitudes of vacation ownership management: A competency domain cluster analysis

An analytical inquiry on timeshare research: A continuously growing segment in the hospitality industry

“…For the purposes of this research, we follow the timeshare definition presented by Pandy and Rogerson (2014) in which the term timeshare "refers essentially to the practice of dividing accommodation units into (usually) weekly increments or intervals and selling them to consumers". This definition is consistent with contemporary literature, i.e., , Redditt et al (2017), Weinland et al (2016). Even though the definition presented by in which timeshare consists of a "right-to-use contract for vacation accommodations and facilities during a stated period of time each year over a certain number of years" is a good attempt to include the new diversity of forms that timeshare can take, it does not reflect, for example, the early timeshare products that were designed with property ownership.…”

“…Despite this sustained and unparalleled growth, authors believe that the same is not happening on an academic level, arguing that timeshare research is sparse, relatively limited, fragmented and mostly obsolete because of its industry rapid growth. Thus, scholars are persistently calling for research on the timeshare industry Hicks and Walker, 2006;Liu et al, 2001;Weaver and Lawton, 1998;Weinland et al, 2016;Zacharatos and Stavrinoudis, 2009).…”

New Model of Human Resource Capabilities Development in Hospitality Industry

“…(Salman et al, 2020) in his research stated that employee competency is very valuable for organizations to develop strategies that take advantage of opportunities and counteract threats because each employee is equipped with unique knowledge, skills, attitudes and mental capacities. (Weinland et al, 2016) revealed that one of the successes in operations and finance of the organization is obtained from competency. (Bharwani, 2017) added that there was a relationship between competency and organizational performance which became an integral part of development in hospitality industry.…”