The industry trade body for vacation ownership, RDO (Resort Development Organisation) has launched a website providing information and advice on fractional ownership.

Extremely successful in the US, fractional ownership is increasingly popular in Europe and over 90 properties are now available under fractional schemes in countries such as Portugal, Italy, the Canary Islands, France, Austria and the UK.

The new site, www.GoFractional.org, has been designed for all those with an interest in this emerging market and is an ideal compliment to its sister site, www.GoTimeshare.org, where you can find out all you need to know about timeshare.

With regular updates, factsheets, features and informative articles about the new and exciting developments not only in Europe but all around the world, this site is set to become a regular place to go to for all fractional property development news.

A listing of commonly-used terms relevant to the timeshare industry.

Timeshare has evolved from a rigid system in which a buyer buys a right to a fixed time period in a dedicated apartment or villa in a resort to the ultimate in flexibility, which is Points. Here we explain how they work.

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