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Make sure spending the weekend with $ 1.8 million a facility in San Juan Island, with water, access to the wonders of Westcott Bay.

Not in the mood for the islands?

How would it with a week’s stay in a hotel in 3000 - square feet at home, the seventh of Fairway Widgi Creek Golf Club in Bend, Ore.?

For a fee of $ 125000 and annual expenses of $ 8500, members of a new Vacation Club Kirkland Signature appointed destinations may be those of access to these devices and more beginning this summer.

Formed by two friends, met in the Business School at Northwestern University, signature destinations tent capital on one of the hottest trends in high-end travel industry. Known as a target or private residence clubs, these apartments have been undertaken in popularity as a “well-to-do baby boomers and retirees perspective on alternatives to owning a second or third countries.

“There are some sexiness to the approach,” said Dick Ragatz, including Eugene, Ore.., Consulting, business, industry. Recent features in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, have also contributed to the floor. Ragatz said the model of the club is certainly here to stay, and turnover seem to support. Total turnover has almost doubled during the last year to $ 440 million, including the number of clubs has increased from five to more than 20 in the last 12 months.

Like at the Time-Share craze 1980’s objective is to provide members of clubs within the privacy of an apartment, without the high cost of ownership. Members, or problems such as maintenance, taxes and insurance, even if the amount of the annual general rule, is intended to cover these costs. In some cases, clubs “concierge services, houses storage of food, periods of reserve tee cooks or staff.

Many compare the idea of NetJets, which allows individuals or companies to be broken owners of private aircraft or Seattle-based FlexCar, Car-Sharing services, whose members maintain periods where the use of the fleet vehicles.

Destination clubs have already powerful players.

– AOL founder Steve Case, the majority owners of Exclusive Resorts, Vacation Club, many properties of $ 175 in places such as Kiawah Island, SC, Jackson Hole, Wyo. It receives $ 375000 of the annual fee and costs range from $ 15000 to $ 30000 depending on use.

A group of high technology, retail and Travel Executives, including chairman of Loudeye Anthony Bay, chairman David Wetherell of CMGI, has recently begun registration for the members of Dream Catcher. With properties in seven sites in clubs the USA and Mexico, Greenwood Village, Colo., companies initially $ 275000 fees and annual fees range from $ 15000 to $ 20000

Most clubs offer 80 percent to 100 percent reimbursement, if a member decides to stop it.

Other market orientation Ultimate includes holiday clubs, private travel and Abercrombie & Kent Destination clubs.

Chad and Brian Stevens helmet, based Signature destinations during the past year after hatching eggs on the idea of a ski holiday in Colorado in 2001, said his club is distinct from the competition, because it employs is a regional hub home.

It starts with six apartments in the Pacific Northwest, including Seegrundstück San Juan Island, and a 1,500-square-foot condominium in Whistler, BC The club on the “land rich” - the 5 million households between $ 150000 and $ 250000 per annum.