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This is a sop to timeshare developers by RCI and II. At one time it may have been accurate, but not today. Real trading power is based on supply and demand, and in some areas of Florida, particularly overbuilt Orlando, a blue week from almost anywhere can trade in much of the year with ease. There are other places where the ''red all year'' designation is a joke, like the overbuilt Canary Islands, also easy to trade into with blue weeks much of the year. The European version of the RCI directory has a month-by-month supply demand table that rates the supply/demand factors for resort areas on the following scale: 1=very highly demanded, limited availibiliey, 2= highly demanded, less availibility, 3= good availibility, 4= very good availibility. Seven months of the year in Florida rate a 3 or 4 which means if RCI were honest and updated its color codes, they should be blue or white. There are places that rate a ''1'' all 12 months of the year. Ireland is one such place, but if you look at the color codes, it is curiously NOT red all year. The problem seems to be that the color codes have not been thoroughly updated in a long time and do not reflect current reality of supply and demand. It would be nice if RCI gave its US members the availibility tables in the US version of the RCI directory. But don't expect RCI to either give us those tables or update the color codes. Too many developers would scream.