Formerly | Wyndham Hotels and Resorts |
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Type | Public |
Industry | Hospitality |
Founded | July 8, 2006 |
Headquarters | Orlando, Florida, United States |
Key people | |
Products | timeshare, vacation rentals, resorts |
Revenue | US$4.043 billion (2019)[4] |
US$812 million (2019)[4] | |
US$507 million (2019)[4] | |
Number of employees | 22,000[5] (2019) |
Subsidiaries | RCI WorldMark by Wyndham |
Website | wyndhamdestinations |
Footnotes / references [6][7] |
Wyndham Destinations (formerly Wyndham Hotels and Resorts) is an American timeshare company. Wyndham Destinations, headquartered in Orlando, Florida,[8] operates several hotel brands around the world.[9] It is the holding company for RCI and other lodging brands. It was spun off from Cendant Corporation in July 2006. On June 1, 2018, Wyndham Worldwide spun-off Wyndham Hotels and Resorts as its own company, and renamed their organization to Wyndham Destinations.[10]
Wyndham Vacation Clubs, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is the largest vacation ownership program in the world.[11] It includes a network of 230 properties, 25,000 individual units, and over 880,000 property owners.[12] Locations are in North America, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific. Wyndham Vacation Clubs includes marketing and sales of vacation ownership interests, consumer financing in conjunction with the purchase of vacation ownership interests, property management services to property owners' associations, and development and acquisition of vacation ownership resorts.[12]
RCI Exchanges was created when Wyndham Destinations was established in 2018. RCI Exchanges operates the businesses formerly part of Wyndham Destination Network. Wyndham Exchange and Rentals officially changed its name to Wyndham Destination Network on January 1, 2016, and formerly operated over 110,000 vacation properties worldwide in more than 100 countries.[15] On May 9, 2018, Wyndham Worldwide Corporation completed an agreement to sell its European vacation rental business, which included cottages.com, hoseasons, James Villa Holidays, Landal GreenParks, Novasol, and several others to Platinum Equity for around $1.3 billion[16] Wyndham Destinations sold its North American Vacation Rental business and associated brands to Vacasa in July 2019.[17]