Transitions Abroad - offers a host of articles on home exchange vacations--good ideas and a good way to educate yourself on this type of vacation; they offer their own list of resources and links, as well as a variety of vacation travel, such as volunteer vacations, working vacations, agriturismos in Italy, gites in France, and ferienwohnungen in Germany are part of what is offered on this web site--namely a way to step into the rural or country life of that country, often on actual working farms

Mini Guide to Vacation Home Exchanges - a thorough article outlining the phenomenon and answering the frequently asked questions, GoNomad.com

Intervac - International Home-Exchange Holiday Service; this is an organization that's been around for 50 years matching people with people for unique home stays around the world. Fee for membership--see "visitors tour", intervac-online.com

HomeLink International - the largest home exchange organization, this company offers not only web memberships but also color directories (for those wishing to search databases including those not on internet), home-exchange-house-swap-homelink-usa.com

HomeExchange.com - see the section on "Trading Places - The ABCs of Home Exchange" for how the concept works

Seniors Home Exchange - a home exchange network "exclusively for the over 50 age group"

Jewish Home Exchanges - arranged between Jewish people from different parts of the globe, JewishHomeExchange.com

Rick Steves on Back Door Travel - numerous columns by the popular travel expert who espouses traveling by getting to know the people in the places you go, transitionsabroad.com

Best of the Net - this article lists the homeswap pics of its author Ros Taylor and gives membership fees and links, The Guardian Unlimited, travel.guardian.co.uk

Spend Less, See More: Tips for Home Exchanges - Pauline Frommer outlines the basics for this economical type of travel