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Travel + Leisure Buys Into Maui and Hilton Head in $343 Million Deal

The timeshare secret runs best on people who already said yes. So when it gets harder to land first-time buyers, buy someone else's customers.

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July 15, 2026
2 min read
Travel + Leisure Buys Into Maui and Hilton Head in $343 Million Deal

Photo Credit: Bluewater by Spinnaker Resorts in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Spinnaker Resorts

The timeshare secret runs best on people who already said yes. So when it gets harder to land first-time buyers, buy someone else's customers.

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Travel + Leisure closed its acquisition of Yes& Vacations on Wednesday and signed a definitive deal for Spinnaker Resorts for a combined $343 million upfront, plus up to $10 million in performance-based payments.

The two deals add 23 resorts to Travel + Leisure's portfolio of more than 280 resorts.

Why it matters: The vacation ownership company is buying inventory in markets where building new properties is hard, such as Maui and Hilton Head. Yes& adds seven Maui pr

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Tags: maui , mergers and acquisitions , south carolina , timeshares , travel + leisure , vacation ownership

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