HomeExchange

What if home swapping became part of France's favorite TV series? Well… it just did! 👀 Since 2004, "Plus belle la vie" has been a staple in French households. And now, HomeExchange is making its way into this iconic show! HomeExchange will be featured in four episodes of "Plus belle la vie, encore plus belle", airing on February 17, 20, 24, and 26 on TF1 at 1:50 PM CET and TFX at 8:30 PM CET. With nearly 3 million viewers tuning in, this is a huge opportunity to bring home swapping even closer to French families. 📺 And the timing couldn’t be better, more and more people are choosing HomeExchange. Our community now has over 200,000 members worldwide, including nearly 70,000 in France. This past summer alone, nearly 50,000 home exchanges took place across the country—32% more than last year! 📈 With 20% of French people now aware of HomeExchange, four times more than just four years ago, integrating home swapping into everyday conversations was the natural next step: "Product placement in an iconic series like "Plus belle la vie, encore plus belle" was an obvious choice to strengthen home swapping’s visibility in 2025. Who better than familiar, relatable characters to showcase the benefits of HomeExchange? By weaving it into storylines and dialogue, we’re making the concept feel even more real and accessible." -Lola Florin Wilbrenninck Chief Brand & Communication Officer at HomeExchange. More than just a way to travel, HomeExchange represents a vision, one that makes travel more accessible, authentic, and community-driven. And now, it’s part of the stories that French families love. ✨ See you on TF1 and TFX! 📺

HomeExchange in the Tech 500: Growing with Purpose ✨ For the second time, HomeExchange has been recognized for being one of the 500 French technology companies who are recruiting the most. But for us, growth isn’t just about hiring—it’s about expanding our team with people who share our vision of a more human, authentic and responsible way of traveling. At HomeExchange, we are committed to fostering a better travel prospect — one that creates connections between our members, optimizes resources, and reduces the travel sector’s environmental impact. Being recognized (once again) for the measures we’re putting in place to bring this concept to an even wider audience is a great validation of our vision! A huge shoutout to our amazing HR team Alexandra Naillet Alberto Obeid Caroline Collot Marine Aiguille and Edouard Mouillon for driving our growth and bringing incredible talent on board! 💙 And of course, thank you to our community and the entire HomeExchange team for making this adventure possible.

HomeExchange in 2025: accelerating our mission to make authentic, responsible travel the new norm. With 200,000+ members and counting, the HomeExchange community is proving that travel can be collaborative, accessible and responsible. And we’re just getting started. 🌍 Our ambition? To make home exchanging a mainstream way of traveling. Unlike short-term rentals which can disrupt local communities and encourage property purchases for the sake of profit, our model is built on trust, sharing and respect. To achieve this, the team is focusing on two key priorities in 2025: 🔹 Expanding globally through sustainable growth – Our goal is to reach 250,000 members by the end of 2025. We’ll do this by strengthening our presence in key markets such as France and Spain, where TV campaigns have already driven strong awareness and trust. 🔹 Enhancing the experience while staying true to our DNA – We’re investing in new features to make exchanges even easier, without losing the human touch that defines us. And this is just the beginning! By 2028, we’re aiming to bring 500,000 members together around a shared vision of travel — one that is more responsible, collaborative, and above all else, authentic. 🙌 Charles-Edouard Girard Emmanuel Arnaud

At HomeExchange, we’re fundamentally committed to making a positive social and environmental impact. This is an overarching company ethos, and as a result we are proud to devise and lead bold corporate initiatives that will lead to tangible change. But this determination is something that the team also wholeheartedly embrace, so we wanted to highlight a selection of the exceptional impact initiatives that they opted to embrace in 2024, all of which set a precedent for what we (and they) would like to continue achieving in the coming months: 🌱 Courtesy of the solidarity day off that we offer, 85% of the team completed almost 800 hours of voluntary work for Gals Best Pal, La Chorba, Un petit bagage d'amour, or Dumovec animal shelter to name just a few. These causes were aligned not only with company values, but also those that are important to our team members. 👩🏫 More than 2600 challenges were tackled by a total of 116 employees with Komeet (ex Vendredi/Wenabi), the social and environmental sensibilisation platform that we use. These challenges were on key topics like gender equality, disability awareness, LGBTQI+, responsible consumption and more… 🏆 A small team from the Product and Tech departments earned 2nd place at the Sustainable Digital Challenge. This important challenge (which was sponsored by apidays and TheGreenCompagnon) was in recognition of an eco-concept project that was developed in just three months. The team’s innovation continues to inspire every member of the HomeExchange workforce. Camille Lalanne Vincent EMILE Catherine V. Manon Le Bars 👏 🎓 Three team members became certified organizers of Climate Fresk and Digital Collage workshops, empowering them to raise awareness and lead impactful conversations about climate and digital sustainability. Manon Le Bars Elisa Papin Nathalie Bosc 👏 💝 To celebrate our belief in collective action, each team member was given the opportunity to support a project with social or environmental impact through the DIFT initiative ("Donation + Gift"). 🌍 Last but by no means least, our efforts toward sustainability were cemented by HomeExchange’s participation in the Ma Petite Planète challenge, which resulted in the avoidance of nearly 2000 tons of CO2 emissions. This selection of achievements and actions are a testament to the collective dedication and creativity of all HomeExchange colleagues. Combining ambitious ideas with the things that matter the most to our team, we are excited about what we can do together as we move forward in our mission to reinvent tourism responsibly. Our determination to make a positive impact on the world will always remain at the heart of this wonderful journey.

👀🔍 Spotlight on the HomeExchange team! Today, meet Adam, who has been a Project Manager for the Member Support Team since 2023. Adam and his team are all about what matters most: using a range of tools and initiatives, they make sure our members are happy and supported. But that’s just the beginning—there’s so much more to discover about Adam’s role and his passion for his work. 🎥 Dive into the interview to learn more! #HomeExchange #Team

Quand La Matinale de TF1 partage les résultats de ton étude sur l’hospitalité des Français·e·s… 😎 Et met en avant les valeurs d’accueil, de générosité et de respect qui forment la base de la communauté HomeExchange et ses 200 000 membres dans plus de 150 pays 😍 On vous laisse avec Benjamin Muller pour en savoir plus sur le sujet 🎥 Bravo encore Fanny, Sarah et Jessica ✨ *étude menée avec Appinio (merci Jean-Yves Laffon & Alexia Gaillet) auprès de 1 000 Français·e·s représentatifs à l’échelle nationale via 10 questions portant sur les habitudes et ressentis de Français·es vis-à-vis du sens de l’hospitalité, à la fois en tant qu’hôte mais aussi en tant qu’invité·e. En parallèle, ces mêmes questions ont été posées à 300 membres HomeExchange français·se·s sur la base du volontariat, nous permettant ainsi de comparer les résultats. #HomeExchange #RP

En 2024, j'ai dormi 26 nuits chez des inconnu(e)s. Et depuis, je ne voyage plus du tout de la même façon 👇 Vous connaissez la plateforme HomeExchange ? Le concept : de l'échange de maisons partout dans le monde, avec ou sans réciprocité ! Une communauté de plus de 200 000 membres de confiance... Mais quand j'en parle, ce sont toujours les mêmes questions : "tu n'as pas peur de laisser ton appartement ?" ; "et si on te vole tes affaires ?" Et toujours la même réponse : 34 échanges plus tard, je recommande à 1 000 % ! D'ailleurs, les chiffres de mon année 2024 parlent d'eux-mêmes : 11 échanges (dont Amsterdam, l'Auvergne, les Pyrénées, Annecy, Paris !) 41 nuitées "échangées" 17 personnes accueillies chez moi Dans le top 20% à avoir le plus accueilli ! Et dans le top 10% à avoir le plus voyagé cette année 6 personnes parrainées Merci à HomeExchange d'exister : c'est une entreprise française ! Qui plus est, à impact : pour un voyage plus responsable et dans le partage 🙌

What a year it’s been for HomeExchange! 🌍✨ As we step into 2025, we’re filled with gratitude and pride for all that our team, community, and partners have achieved together in 2024. Some of the milestones that made this year truly exceptional include: 🌟 We reached and exceeded the 200,000-member milestone That’s like sending all the residents of Salt Lake City on a vacation! 🏡✨ This milestone reflects the growing trust and love for home exchange as a responsible and authentic way to travel, and we couldn’t be more grateful for it. 🔄 We saw a +43% increase in exchanges compared to 2023 More than ever, our community chose connection over consumption, proving that a more human way of traveling isn’t just possible, it’s thriving. A huge congratulations to our incredible member support team, who were there every step of the way to assist our members before, during, and after their exchanges. 📰 We had 2300+ media mentions That’s double what we achieved in 2023! From Spain to the United States and Canada, Italy to Germany, and across the UK, the Netherlands, and of course, France, our mission resonated loud and clear across borders. 👥 We launched our Community Forum We created a dedicated space for members to connect, share experiences, and help each other make the most of their home exchanges. It’s also a place for non-members to ask questions to the community and our team before joining. 🚪We organized our first “Open Home” events in 11 countries Inspired by a concept widely practiced in the Netherlands and Flanders, HomeExchange members opened their doors for a day to friends and/or complete strangers to introduce home swapping and share their experiences. It was a human, warm, and 100% authentic way of spreading the word about the concept because the human connection is what makes home exchange so powerful. 🏅 We made the Paris 2024 Olympics magic possible for our community Over 7,000 HomeExchange members were able to experience the magic of the Games in Paris and other French cities without breaking the bank, including 10 volunteers who benefited from our special program. 🤝 We created the Share Friday initiative Together with Geev and 18 other pioneers of the collaborative economy, we championed alternatives to overconsumption during Black Friday, spreading the spirit of sharing and responsibility. We could go on and on celebrating the team’s amazing accomplishments, because 2024 has truly been a fantastic year of trying, learning, implementing, scaling, growing, and reaching for the stars. None of this would have been possible without our dedicated members, partners, and supporters. Thank you for believing in a world where hospitality, trust, and sustainability take center stage. As we look ahead to 2025, we’re excited to continue shaping the future of travel together. Wishing you all a fantastic start to the new year! Here’s to another year of connection and impact. Warmly, The HomeExchange Team 🏡💙

👀🔍 Zoom sur les membres de l’équipe HomeExchange. Aujourd’hui on rencontre Manon Le Bars, ingénieure cloud et devOps chez HomeExchange depuis 2023. 🚀 Son parcours Après une reconversion professionnelle réussie via un bootcamp et un contrat de professionnalisation chez HomeExchange, Manon a rejoint l’équipe en CDI depuis 2023. 🔧 L’organisation DevOps La squad DevOps fonctionne en Scrumban et combine donc la flexibilité du Kanban et des rituels Scrum comme : - Weekly planning, - Daily stand-up, - Sessions de refinement, - Monthly rétros. L’équipe jongle entre deux types de tâches : ✔️ Les projets tech et les tâches de fond pour faire évoluer l’infrastructure. ✔️ Les demandes de support des développeurs et du reste de l’entreprise. 🏆 Les challenges techniques ? Rattraper la dette technique et le code de l’infrastructure, pour suivre le scale de l’entreprise. 👏 Les petits plus que Manon ne confie pas dans la vidéo Elle est très engagée sur les sujets d'impact et notamment sur l'environnement : - elle est formatrice à la fresque du climat avec Nathalie Bosc, Product manager chez HomeExchange, et Elisa Papin, notre Impact manager - avec son équipe, elle a obtenu la 2e place du Sustainable Digital Challenge apidays 2024 co-organisé par TheGreenCompagnon pour un projet d'éco-conception développé pendant 3 mois (encore bravo à l'équipe : Nathalie Bosc Catherine V. Camille Lalanne Vincent EMILE Matthieu DELMAS !) On vous laisse entre vous 🎥 #DevOps #TechTeam #Recrutement #HomeExchange

Who says you need to be a Hollywood star to live a rich life? HomeExchange co-founder Emmanuel Arnaud is joining The Wealthy Life with Sybil Verch host Sybil Verch TODAY to discuss how home exchanging can help anyone live a life rich with experiences, connections, and new cultures… without breaking the bank. Find all info about the master class in Sybil's post just below if you'd like to attend ⤵️