lock up the house, and travel to a new place to stay in a hotel．However, hotels are very expensive,

　　and with rent or housing loan（贷款）due every month,

　　it's difficult for most people to pay for yet another place to stay．

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　　Luckily,

　　there is a substitute called house swapping,

　　and it's saving tourists a great deal of cash．

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　　For example,

　　if a couple from New York want to spend a week in Paris, they would place an ad offering to trade their New York apartment for one in Paris for a week．If a Parisian couple that want to vacation in New York read the advertisement, houses can be swapped, and both couples save hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars by avoiding big-city hotel fees．If all goes well, both couples can post positive reviews of the other's home online so that potential travelers can see that everything was fine．

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　　This builds a community of people who want to help each other out．

　　There are other advantages co house swapping as well．

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　　Staying at someone's home puts you in a neighborhood that can give you a better representation of the life and culture in the place you're visiting．

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　　The next time you want to spend your vacation in a new place, but don't want to pay a fortune, check what's posted online and find a house to swap．

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