Luxe Home Swap (www.luxehomeswap.com) is the beginning of the end for the hotel industry. For the first time, you will be able to exchange your home or second home with smart properties all around the world, using Luxe Home Swap’s new website.

Why spend when you can swap?
Luxe Home Swap marks the coming of age for home exchange for vacations. Home exchange has been around for decades. But Luxe Home Swap is the first site to do it in a cool way for savvy people and recessionistas, who own homes they’re proud of around the world. 

• Luxe Home Swap launched in January 2010 to capitalize on the busiest time of year for arranging home exchange vacations. 
• Luxe Home Swap is the best way to holiday in style and blend in like a local, allowing you to make maximum use of the value of your home or second home.
• You may have never heard of home exchange before or have thought that it’s not for you – with Luxe Home Swap, it’ll quickly become the only way you’ll travel. 

As seen in the Hollywood movie, 'The Holiday', Cameron Diaz's character swapped apartments with Kate Winslet's to amusing and comedic consequences. The movie depicts a growing trend of holidaygoers to swap homes instead of hotel stays...

Luxe Home Swap is the brainchild of serial entrepreneur Debbie Wosskow, who came up with the idea over the Summer when she was thinking about booking a winter vacation away for her and her family. Debbie was sick of spending 80% of her travel budget on a hotel, where she still wouldn’t feel like it was a home away from home. 

“I took a look at the main home exchange sites out there, put my home up on a few of them and found that there was a real problem. When I listed my Marylebone home in Central London on a few of the sites, I was bombarded by 30 to 40 messages a day from people with properties that didn’t match with mine asking me to swap. I then looked for other smart homes, and there were some there but they were really difficult to find. Plus the existing home exchange sites looked horrible and obviously had been built a long time ago. Clearly it wasn’t the same glossy experience as booking through a travel agent.

So I came up with the idea for Luxe Home Swap – a stylish home exchange site for people with homes they’re proud of that lets you holiday like a local - for less than a night in a hotel. 

I’ve made sure to remember that ’Luxe’ is not just about luxury – a nice location can be as important as size, as people want different things at different times when they travel. So Luxe Home Swap will make total sense for you, whether you save $500 or $5,000 on travel accommodation.”
Debbie Wosskow, Founder, Luxe Home Swap

About Luxe Home Swap
Luxe Home Swap (www.luxehomeswap.com) launched in January 2010. It’s a stylish home exchange site that lets you holiday like a local but at a fraction of the normal accommodation cost – anywhere in the world.  

It’s for savvy people with homes they’re proud of in major cities and desirable locations – from Los Angeles to London, Vancouver to Verbier, Barbados to Bali, plus lots of other places you might never have thought of visiting...yet.

Annual membership for Luxe Home Swap is only $159 – less than the cost of a night in a hotel - and members can exchange as many times as they like.