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ental bookings a year. We market vacation rental properties under proprietary brand names, such as Landal<br />

GreenParks, Hoseasons, Villas4You, cottages4you, English Country Cottages, James Villa Holidays, Novasol,<br />

Dansommer, Cuendet, Canvas Holidays, ResortQuest and Endless Vacation Rentals and through select private-label<br />

arrangements. The following is a description of some of our major vacation rental brands:<br />

k Novasol » is one of continental Europe’s largest rental companies, featuring properties in more than 20<br />

European countries including holiday homes in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Italy and Croatia, with<br />

over 29,000 exclusive holiday homes available for rent through established brands such as Novasol,<br />

Dansommer and Cuendet.<br />

k The Hoseasons Group operates a number of well-recognized and established brands within the vacation<br />

rental market, including Hoseasons, English Country Cottages, cottages4you, Welcome Cottages and James<br />

Villa Holidays, and offers unparalleled access to over 44,000 properties across the U.K. and Europe.<br />

k Landal GreenParks » is one of Holland’s leading holiday park companies, with over 70 holiday parks<br />

offering approximately 11,000 holiday park bungalows, villas and apartments in the Netherlands, Germany,<br />

Belgium, Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. Every year more than 2 million guests visit<br />

Landal’s parks, many of which offer dining, shopping and wellness facilities.<br />

k Canvas Holidays is a specialist tour operator offering luxury camping holidays in Europe at over 90 of the<br />

finest European campsites with almost 3,000 accommodation units. It has a wide choice of luxury<br />

accommodations — spacious lodges, comfortable mobile homes and the unique Maxi Tent, plus an exciting<br />

range of children’s and family clubs.<br />

k ResortQuest is a leading provider of full-service, wholly-owned vacation condominiums and home rentals<br />

in the U.S. With more than 20 years of experience in the industry, ResortQuest represents a portfolio of<br />

approximately 6,000 vacation rental properties in premier beach, ski, golf and tennis resort destinations<br />

across North America — from ski-in/ski-out townhomes in Breckenridge, Colorado and Sundance Film<br />

Festival lodging in Park City, Utah, to golf course villas on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina and<br />

Gulf-front condos along Florida’s Emerald Coast.<br />

Most of the rental activity under our brands takes place in Europe and the U.S., although we have the ability to<br />

source and rent inventory in approximately 100 countries. Our vacation rentals business also has the opportunity to<br />

provide inventory to our 3.8 million vacation exchange members.<br />

Our vacation rentals business currently has relationships with over 51,000 independent property owners in 32<br />

countries, including the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, France, Ireland, Belgium, Italy,<br />

Spain, Portugal, Norway, Greece, Austria, Croatia, certain countries in Eastern Europe, the U.S., the Pacific Rim and<br />

Latin America. Property owners typically enter into one year or multi-year contracts with our vacation rentals<br />

subsidiaries to market the rental of their properties within our rental portfolio. Our vacation rentals business also has<br />

an ownership interest in, or capital leases under, approximately 10% of the properties in our Landal GreenParks<br />

rental portfolio.<br />

Customer Development<br />

In our vacation exchange business, we affiliate with vacation ownership developers directly as a result of the<br />

efforts of our in-house sales teams. Affiliated developers sign long-term agreements each with a duration of up to<br />

12 years. Our members are acquired primarily through our affiliated developers as part of the vacation ownership<br />

purchase process. In our vacation rentals business, we primarily enter into exclusive annual rental agreements with<br />

property owners. We market rental properties online and offline to large databases of customers which generate<br />

repeat bookings. Additional customers are sourced through bookable websites and offline advertising and promotions,<br />

and through the use of third-party travel agencies, tour operators, and online distribution channels to drive<br />

additional occupancy. We have a number of specific branded websites, such as http://www.cottages4you.co.uk and<br />

http://www.resortquest.com as well as a new global portal highlighting all of our vacation rental brands across<br />

product type and geography, http://www.wyndhamvacationrentals.com, to promote, sell and inform new customers<br />

about vacation rentals. Given the diversified nature of our rental brands, there is limited dependence on a single<br />

customer group or business partner.<br />

Loyalty Program<br />

Our U.S. vacation exchange business’ member loyalty program is RCI Elite Rewards», which offers a branded<br />

credit card, the RCI Elite Rewards credit card. The card allows members to earn reward points that can be redeemed<br />

for items related to our exchange programs, including annual membership dues and exchange fees for transactions,<br />

and other services and products offered by our vacation exchange business or certain third parties, including airlines<br />

and retailers.<br />

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