How Home Swapping Can Help Save the Environment

If you haven’t yet heard of Home Swapping, you will. It is currently one of the fastest-growing trends in the travel industry. It is also one of the best ways to limit your carbon footprint while traveling.

According to Wikipedia.org, the practice of home swapping has been around since the creation of Intervac International in 1953, but its popularity has experienced exponential growth over the last few years. According to Conde Nast Traveler, one home exchange website saw overall new trials up 65% in the first 10 days of 2022 alone. Another home-swapping site, HomeExchange.com, now claims over 100,000 members spread across 187 countries. The city of Paris alone counts over 17,000 of these members.

Simply put, home swapping is where a family in one location trades homes with a family in another location for a given amount of time. Typically, no money is exchanged. Each family lives in the other’s home and makes use of it as if it were their own. They will water the plants, mow the lawn, and sometimes even feed the family pets that have been left behind. At the end of the stay, each family will clean the home in which they have been staying, put everything back the way it…