Love Home Swap

Love Home Swap

Founded	2011;14 years ago (2011)
Founder	Debbie Wosskow
Headquarters	London, England
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Celia Pronto, Managing Director
Products	Homestay
Services	Home exchange
Number of employees	40 (2021)
Parent	Travel + Leisure Co.
Website	www.lovehomeswap.com

Love Home Swap is a subscription-based, peer-to-peer holiday home exchange or home swapping website. Members of the website swap homes with each other, either simultaneously or using a points system. The company is based in London, United Kingdom. Love Home Swap was acquired by Travel + Leisure Co. (formerly Wyndham Worldwide Corporation) in August 2017. In March of 2023, HomeExchange.com purchased Love Home Swap. ^[1]

History

Love Home Swap was founded in 2011 by Debbie Wosskow OBE after being inspired by the film The Holiday featuring Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz.^{[ citation needed ]} The company was founded during a phase of rapid growth in the sharing economy or collaborative consumption space, of which Wosskow was a strong proponent.^{[ citation needed ]}

• 2014 Love Home Swap acquired 1st Home Exchange ^[2]
• 2015 Received first investment from Wyndham (now operating as Travel + Leisure Co.) ^[3]
• 2015 Acquired Dutch rival Home For Exchange ^[4]
• August 2017 Love Home Swap was acquired by Travel + Leisure Co. for $53 million ^[5]
• March 2023 Love Home Swap was purchased by HomeExchange.com. ^[6]

External links

• Official website

References

1. "HomeExchange, the Global Leader in Home Swap Vacations, Acquires Competitor Love Home Swap" (Press release). PR Newswire. 2 March 2023.
2. Burn-Callander, Rebecca (6 November 2015). "Britain's top tech firms growing 1,000pc a year". The Telegraph.
3. Whyte, Patrick (11 August 2016). "How Wyndham Plans to Tack Vacation Rental Disruptors". Skift.
4. Burn-Callander, Rebecca (13 December 2015). "Love Home Swap acquires Dutch rival to become world leader in home exchange". The Telegraph.
5. Lunden, Ingrid (31 July 2017). "Wyndham buys Love Home Swap for $53 million". Tech Crunch.
6. "HomeExchange, the Global Leader in Home Swap Vacations, Acquires Competitor Love Home Swap" (Press release). PR Newswire. 2 March 2023.