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Festiva Resorts is aware that several members of the Equivest Vacation & Travel Club (EVTC) have questions and concerns about the 2007 acquisition of the Club, as well as the current state and the future outlook of the Club. We do want to engage members and we have a goal of providing better communication to Equivest members.

As mentioned in the Festiva Resorts 2007 Annual Report, we agreed with the previous owner’s efforts to retire the Equivest name. As the Peppertree name has been used in the past and is connected to several of the affiliated resorts, going forward, the name Peppertree Vacation and Travel Club (PVTC) will be used.

As a result of a meeting between one concerned Peppertree Club member and Festiva Resorts’ President and Vice President of Member Services, an advisory committee of three Club members has been formed. The first meeting of the committee took place May 6, 2009, and open discussions of global issues confronting the membership of PVTC took place so that we could explore plausible solutions.

This committee is not formed by, funded by, managed by, or in any other way affiliated with Festiva Resorts, but is a volunteer organization of concerned PVTC members working to protect the interests of all members as well as the value of the Peppertree Vacation & Travel Club. It is an autonomous group and not a legal entity, and committee members are free to express any and all issues.

The committee as a group has agreed not to deal with individual nuances or events. Instead the focus will be on acquiring information and understanding for the group as a whole. The advisory committee solicits input from members of the PVTC community but requests that your input represents issues that seem to be common among multiple members, and are not individual grievances.

We are already seeing positive results from the first meeting of the advisory committee. Please check our website for a new section specifically for PVTC members. In the meantime if you have any questions, please visit our Q & A page.

We recently sent an e-mail to all members of the Peppertree Vacation & Travel Club with contact information for advisory committee members. If you are a member of the PVTC and did not receive this e-mail, then we may not have your current contact information on file. Please write to us at myemail@festivaresorts.com with the subject line Peppertree Member and include your full name, e-mail address and any other contact information that may need updating.

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