Rest on exchange

This kind of tourism has more than sixty years. Tourist operators do not even want to talk about the holiday by exchange, because once trying to spend a vacation in this way, the client for the agency is lost forever.

The essence of this type of tourism is that for the time of the planned vacation, housing is exchanged, that is, families are changing houses. This is an excellent option for a family vacation , which gives an opportunity to get to know more about the peculiarities of life in another city and even the state, if you participate in the program of rest for an exchange abroad, get acquainted with the customs of the people and culture. Both sides are guaranteed to receive an ocean of new emotions and vivid impressions.

Peculiarities of holiday on exchange

It's not always the vacation that you plan to coincide with the vacation of people participating in the exchange of houses for the rest period, so you should always be prepared to take guests in your apartment, and stay with relatives or at the dacha yourself. At the same time, you do not necessarily find yourself at home with those who have stayed with you.

Unfortunately, about the post-Soviet states, foreigners did not have a very correct and positive opinion. For a long time the Soviet Union was closed to guests, and the exchange was completely excluded, equating to treason. More than two decades have passed, but the fall of the Iron Curtain did not entail the passage of all stages of the development of the culture of tourism in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine and other former Soviet countries. It is for this reason that the exchange of vacation homes with foreign families is more difficult. The situation with the exchange of apartments for the period of leave in the country is much better. Residents of megacities are happy to stay in Siberia, Sakhalin or Kamchatka, and those who have never seen fruit growing on trees want to be in the south of the country.

Precautionary measures

Interesting and even too tempting offers for exchanging accommodation for the duration of the holidays are plenty, but the choice should be made very carefully, because you are risking your own home, letting strangers there. There are reliable Internet services. With their help, you and your property can be secured. Most of these agencies require a registration fee. To be afraid of this travelers is not worth it, because the membership fee ensures that the person who gave the "blood" will not ignore the correspondence with the potential guest. In addition, the agency will assume its responsibility to select suitable offers for you.

Of course, it is impossible to completely eliminate unpleasant situations in this kind of tourism, but after all, tourists traveling in the traditional way are not immune from this.