(It also owns and manages resort and theme park projects, and provides a variety of business and hospitality services).
It runs hospitals, builds roads, manages resorts and owns factories that produce fertilisers, cement and even cars.
He recently bought debt from Starwood Hotels, which typically manages resorts on property owned by others.
But Ms. Williams, whose job at Indio includes selling the lots as well as managing the resort, also sees younger buyers.
West Paces Hotel Group will manage the resort, and plans are for about 30 homes and 30 hotel rooms by the time the development opens in 2012.
According to William Morrissey, president of the Morrissey Hospitality Companies of St. Paul, which manages the resort, hotel reservations totaling more than $1.5 million have been booked through June.
Disney will also receive a fee for its role in managing the resort and royalties for the use of its characters.
"It's much easier from a cash-flow point of view to manage a resort business when there's money coming in year round".
Our host is Shane, who manages the resort and its private bar and restaurant with his wife, Shendel (she's at home in Australia during my stay).
Carolina Swanson, director of human resources for the Dune Management Company, which manages 11 resort properties in the Hamptons, usually employs about 90 H-2B workers, who return to the East End from Jamaica and the Dominican Republic each summer.
