Why are luxury travellers embracing the sharing economy?
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3 May 2023
Why are luxury travellers embracing the sharing economy?

With high-end home-swapping sites reporting increases in bookings and the rise of platforms for boat and private jet sharing, HNWI travellers are looking towards the sharing economy. What’s motivating these new travel choices and how can brands tap into this changing behaviour?

Liam Hess

Liam Hess is the features editor at Buffalo Zine, a regular columnist for Dazed Beauty, and the editor of The Leopard. He has written across print and digital for The Guardian, The Times, BBC Culture, Vogue, Wallpaper, Vice, The TLS, Literary Review, i-D, AnOther, AnOther Man, LOVE, and more.

Emmanuel Arnaud

Emmanuel Arnaud is HomeExchange CEO, and a graduate of HEC Paris and the Harvard Kennedy School. Arnaud is passionate about the challenges of sustainable development, travel and discovery. In 2011, after a first entrepreneurial adventure in Pakistan and several positions in the public and private sectors, he founded GuesttoGuest, now HomeExchange.

Keven Dextradeur

Based in Canada, Keven Dextradeur is the consulting country lead at Skipperi, a Finland-based fast growing boating start-up with a mission to make boating simple, sustainable and for everyone.

Amelia Abraham

Over eight combined years as an editor at VICE, Refinery29 and Dazed, Amelia Abraham commissioned stories, managed teams, shaped branded campaigns and grew audiences. Abraham now works mainly as a freelance copywriter and brand consultant. Recent clients include Nike, Hinge, Royal Mail, Dr Martens, Lyst, and Matches Fashion. Having published two books on queer culture, Queer Intentions (Picador, 2019) and We Can Do Better Than This (Vintage, 2021), Abraham has talked about LGBTQ+ culture everywhere from Sky News to BBC Radio 4 to the Southbank Centre, and regularly delivers LGBTQ+ diversity and inclusion talks for brands.