Pip Miller discovered the joys of international home exchange on a family visit to Bali. As Pip’s picture of her Bali holiday shows, home exchange has many benefits including the chance to experience life like a local.  Through her membership she was given an opportunity to become HomeExchange.com’s newly appointed Australia/NZ public relations consultant

Pip Miller PR has been appointed the public relations agency for HomeExchange.com in Australia and New Zealand.  In a three month campaign effective immediately, HomeExchange.com will partner with Pip Miller PR to boost its profile and awareness in the southern hemisphere, in this, its 20th anniversary year.

Announcing the partnership, founder and president of HomeExchange.com, Ed Kushins, said “We are very excited to officially introduce HomeExchange.com in Australia and New Zealand. We are confident that Pip will be using her PR expertise and personal experiences as an avid HomeExchanger to share that HomeExchange combines the best of green, frugal and cultural ways to travel."

In Australia and New Zealand HomeExchange.com currently has a total of 2500 members with an objective of increasing this number significantly in the next 12 months. 

Having been a member of HomeExchange.com since 2007, Pip Miller said she knows firsthand, the many benefits this style of travel offers.

“Our family has enjoyed exchanges both within Australia and overseas.  While the ‘you stay in my house while I stay in yours’ makes perfect sense in terms of expense, it also provides added convenience and deeper insights into ‘living like a local’.

“Added to my consultancies tourism focus, I am confident my experience as a ‘home exchanger’ will provide great dividends to the company’s presence in Australia and New Zealand,” she said.

An avid traveller, Californian Ed Kushins created HomeExchange in 1992.  A personal home exchange to Washington DC with his kids in 1991 opened his eyes to the many opportunities of this rewarding way to travel and he started his own little club.  It planted the seed of what has grown to become the largest and most respected home exchange network in the world.  The website is in 16 languages, plus HomeExchangeGold.com which offers exclusive, luxury homes for exchange worldwide. With over 60,000 exchanges achieved in 2011, HomeExchange.com is positively regarded as a frugal, safe, cultural and environmentally sustainable way to travel.