See the World and Save the Environment: HomeExchange: The Green Way to Travel!

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Hundreds of thousands of travelers around the world already know about Home Exchange (www.HomeExchange.com) and its increasing popularity as a mainstream vacation alternative. What many people don’t know is that a Home Exchange also provides a unique eco-friendly way to visit virtually anywhere in the world as a local, not a tourist, without leaving a negative imprint on the local environment. In fact, the number one rule of HomeExchange is: “Leave your exchange partner’s home as or better than you found it.”

The same applies to HomeExchange.com’s credo toward the planet: “Leave wherever you visit as or better than you found it.” A HomeExchange preserves the local culture, supports the local people and economy, and creates a sustainable tourism model, not a never-ending expansion of huge hotels and packaged vacations.

Why has HomeExchange quickly become the Green way to travel?

·        Exchanging homes doesn’t increase the local population when you visit and has virtually no incremental impact on the environment.

·        The incremental footprint of a home exchange visit is virtually zero compared to a hotel stay, where it would be significant. Hotels have immense staffs and waste a large number of resources every day during your stay. How many shampoo bottles, shower caps and free magazines do we need floating around out there?

·        The private home you would stay in via your exchange didn't require an environmental impact study and a total clear-cutting of the local landscape, like a hotel would. You are staying in a neighborhood that already exists, not yet another high rise hotel.

·        A home exchange lets you literally drop into a neighborhood without being a burden on the local ecosystem. You take the place of the family who left to stay in your home, making the impact of your stay almost invisible.    

·        Home Exchange lets you live in local neighborhoods, and support the local economy by shopping in small stores and farmers markets rather than the large department stores and franchises that surround most hotels. You get personal recommendations from your exchange partner and neighbors for restaurants and shopping, rather than the guide books every "tourist" is using.  

·        There are fewer rental cars on the road when you exchange automobiles with your host family.

·        A home exchange keeps the earth a more friendly, fun and green place to live and saves everyone money in the process!