Developments magazine is the professional journal of the American Resort Development Association (ARDA), Washington, D.C. The association, founded in 1969, also maintains strategic alliances with counterparts in Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America, Canada, South Africa, Argentina, Mexico and Australia. As “the voice of the timeshare industry,” Developments speaks not only to the industry but for the industry to its various constituencies - legislators, regulators, academics, financial analysts, sister organizations and the media