Going back as far as the 1930s, when my family came here, Sullivan County was a vacation mecca, with hundreds of hotels.

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Players' responses about what kind of vacation spots they prefer are shared with Wyndham Hotels, a Chrysler marketing partner.

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They are competing with the places their customers go on vacation when they are not chartering mega-yachts, which are luxury hotels and resorts.

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As far as competition, big hotels are trying to fend off HomeAway by in some markets trying to get legislation passed to ban vacation rentals.

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Forbes 400 member Timothy Blixseth has hired a top Hilton Hotels executive, Dieter Huckestein , to run his new Yellowstone Club World, perhaps the highest priced vacation resort club to date.

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