Din kommende ferie med nye muligheder.
Homelinks historie går helt tilbage til 1953
Hvordan fungerer boligbytte ferie
Picture
this: a young high-school teacher pecking away
at a typewriter in his New York City apartment,
compiling a list of fellow
teachers who had expressed interest
in exchanging their homes during the coming
summer vacation. Copies of this list would be mailed
to all the participants, who
would then contact each other to arrange home
exchanges in New York and adjoining
states. Word spread quickly amongst the educators,
and soon the lists became booklets that gained
more and more weight every spring.
David Ostroff was the teacher, and 1953 the year he
put his concept into practice. Like many people, he had already enjoyed exchanging his home with
colleagues and relatives during various vacation periods. He was
aware that home exchanging had been
a long-practiced social activity, quite popular even in the middle ages.
In
1960 David formalised his enterprise, establishing
Vacation Exchange Club Inc., which by then had extended
its domain to include members, primarily
teachers, throughout North America, Europe and United Kingdom. Unaware of
David’s service, a young lady named Jan Ryder was now offering a similar
one in the UK, primarily to members in the
armed forces (her husband was a Royal Air Force
officer). Within a short time their paths crossed, collaboration was agreed,
and they elected to collaborate by pooling their resources to lay the
foundation for the world-renowned international organisation that we know
today as HomeLink International.
The ‘60’s and ‘70’s saw their formal network grow
with official representatives in
other countries setting up offices
to promote the service and provide registration facilities worldwide. Directory
Group Association was
the adopted name, in reference to the
directories now published, replacing the modest little booklets of earlier years. By 1980 the group had expanded further
with offices in the following
countries:
Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands,
Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United States.
In the next decade DGA
welcomed
newcomers as
well as replacements for some of the originals.
Representatives emerged in Brazil, Canada, Cyprus,
Denmark, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Malaysia, New Zealand, South
Africa, Norway and Yugoslavia.
Recently, new offices have opened in Estonia and Russia, and arrangements
are underway to add Turkey. To reflect this astounding
expansion, and a truly International network, the name
of the group was later changed to HomeLink
International.
The
1990’s saw the growth in popularity of the worldwide-web and advanced
Internet access, and with that perhaps the most dramatic stage of our
evolution in terms of format and technology. Listings
can now be posted online with photos in full
colour,
members have plenty of handy tools for quick
searching
and correspondence, and the quality of the
directories is vastly improved with colour photos
and modern typography. Now it seems that there is
no limit to the exciting features that can be added
to increase our members’ enjoyment and facilitate
home-exchanging everywhere.Yes,
times have changed - from typewriters to computers, black and white books to
quality full colour
publications and from snail mail to email.What
changes will the next 50 years bring? New ideas, new
technology no doubt, but one thing we will strive
to
retain: HomeLink
International - “Number 1 in the
field of Home Exchange”*
Our Annual General Meeting in May 2003 in Copenhagen featured a milestone celebration as we
marked the Golden Jubilee of HomeLink International.
Portugal 1982
København 1987
Vores møde i Tyskland 1989
Vores møde 1990 i Canada
Møde 2010
Møde 2012
Dansk BoligBytte - HomeLink Danmark
Sankt Peders Stræde 41
DK 1453 København K
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