About our Members
Our members are relatively affluent, well educated and passionate about expanding their horizons. Typically they are home owners with one or two incomes from professional and executive occupations, small business owners, or self-employed. The average age of our members is between 35 and 60. Often there are children living at home. We are happy to call an adventurous group of retirees busy seeing the world and enjoying the benefits of home exchange our members too.
One critical factor supporting your ease in finding suitable exchanges is the size and the "mix" of a membership database. A good home exchange membership database must be large enough to offer sufficient representation:
- on all continents - for sophisticated travellers
- in many countries - for variety and serendipity
- across age groups - for exchanges all year around
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About our Organisation
Our Mailing Address
Intervac International
Box 12066, S-291
12 Kristianstad SWEDEN
INTERVAC was started in Europe in the early 1950's by a group of teachers who were looking for economic means to travel internationally. After a few exchanges, they realized that this was also a superior for the cultivation international friendships and understanding. Our concept has been growing ever since - primarily by referrals from satisfied home exchangers. Currently INTERVAC offers its services in 50 countries and facilitates home exchanges for 20,000 families from all walks of life.
Intervac International - Operating Procedures
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INTERVAC operates by appointing exclusive representatives in various countries. Our organisers are responsible for supporting members in their efforts to find a suitable exchange partner and for promoting the concept of home exchange within their country.
Although INTERVAC organisers use standard procedures for dealing with complaints or passing along member requests, country representations are nationally-owned and operated. The name INTERVAC is made from words international and vacations and is registered as a trademark in most countries where INTERVAC operates. In countries where we are represented we simply call ourselves INTERVAC followed by the country name. For example: we are INTERVAC Austria in Austria and INTERVAC Canada in Canada. Our umbrella organisation - INTERVAC International - is a registered non-profit organisation in Sweden.
The current members of the Intervac Board of Directors are:
Ms. Kristina Caillaud
(Intervac FR)
Mr. Karl Gemfeldt
(Intervac SE)
Mr. Michael Støvelbæk
(Intervac DK)
Annual General Meetings
Organisers from participating countries meet at Annual General Meetings (AGMs) to set world-wide policies and procedures, and to elect a Board of Directors who then coordinate international activities of INTERVAC on an ongoing basis.INTERVAC organisers take turns in hosting AGMs in their country. The following is the schedule forthcoming AGMs:
- 2008 - Great Britain
- 2009 - Norway
- 2010 - Portugal