HLS provides much needed rental support to owner committees

Choosing to be an elected member of a timeshare committee is not for the feint hearted. For many owners who volunteer it is the first time they have every been involved with the supply side of the travel and tourism industry - and it must be a bit of a shock. After a sharp learning curve they have to get to grips with legislation, resort management, business strategy, budgets, inventory control, timeshare sales and marketing. And they are just volunteers!

An important part of a committee's budgetary responsibility is to generate rental income from the weeks that have been repossessed or are unsold. Many committees are successful in renting these weeks out to their current members and promote them on their websites and in newsletters. However, marketing weeks through third party rental websites can be expensive and resource-heavy especially if all enquiries are being sent back to the resort to handle.

This is where the services of an agent such as the Holiday Letting Shop can help.

Holiday Letting Shop (HLS) has been developed to work with owner committees who need to rent out their timeshare weeks and need an easy, cost effective, web-based service to help them distribute this stock to a wider market place.

The team behind HLS has considerable experience in both the timeshare and tour operating industries and the rental service has been created to make it easy to add inventory and distribute it to customers.

So how can Holiday Letting Shop help?

Here are the five main reasons why you should use the services of HLS.

1. The HLS team will work with you to analyse the inventory that you have available to rent.
2. Together you will determine the best wholesale rate for your inventory.
3. HLS staff will then load your inventory on to the HLS website - this is not a DIY rental site and they do this for you.
4. HLS will ensure that their advertised rates do not undercut your management fees to maintain the integrity of your product
5. Through the search-engine optimised HLS website and our distribution channels HLS will promote your inventory across the internet and bring in new customers.

HLS is not unique but it is the only service in the UK working with committee members that is focused on rentals - they do not offer re-sales or exchange. And from their wide experience, they have distribution channels that many other rental services simply cannot offer. Therir activities have also been approved by TATOC, the Timeshare Association who are always supportive of businesses that can reduce the pressure on committees and improve the profitablity of resorts.

In these difficult times, committee members have enough challenges as resorts struggle to survive. Why not let Holiday Letting Shop look after your holiday rental programme and remove one of those challenges for you?

To find out more about Holiday Letting Shop contact Sharon Jackson at sharonj@holidaylettingshop.com or visit the site for further details at: http://www.holidaylettingshop.com/