Inspirational India - a rare home exchange opportunity to savour

Yesterday was a day with a difference at GTI Home Exchange: we received our first two membership registrations from India. Even though I had tried in the past to make marketing inroads into India, I had wondered why there was so little results or feedback from a country which is now so technologically advanced in the computing world. So it was with surprise and pleasure that I read these new listings, HE18782 and HE18784

HE18782 - PERIYAR-THEKKADY


In the western ghat mountains of Kerala, in South India. Pleasant to cool throughout most of the year. On a working cardamom plantation, in Idukki District. Offers opportunities for walks in the plantation and in the high mountain grasslands above the cardamom plantations. The wildlife sanctuary of Thekkady is 19km. drive away. Experience rural life in the hinterland of Kerala

HE18784 - AMBASAMUDRAM


Mayuram lodge is on a 350 acre property at the foot of western ghats. It adjoins Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Sanctuary, in southern Tamil Nadu - deep in rural hinterland. The lodge comprises a main house, and ancillary structure, each with two bedrooms. The architecture of the main house is vernacular, with rooms built arounds a central open-to-sky court. The lodge is an ideal retreat for observing the profusion of bird-life that abounds here; it is a good base camp for wilderness treks or to explore and experience the surrounding rural areas. There is a small, working organic farm on the property; but much of it is wild, and management practices are based on ecological principles.


I was particularly encouraged to read the last sentence in our Member's own summary for Mayuram Lodge!

GTI Home Exchange Member Registration and Payment Process

As banks and Merchant Service Providers work ever harder to maintain the security of on-line transactions, the processes are inevitably becoming a little more complicated for purchasers.

At Green Theme International Home Exchange we believe that some prospective members might be deterred by the complexity of the payment process (we know that this has happened in a few cases) and are therefore providing below some assistance on the new authentication services which are being offered to people using VISA cards.

As we currently understand the situation, for your additional security Visa provides authentication services on the following cards: Visa, Visa Delta and Visa Electron. These are additional Security checks: using the three additional security code numbers provided on the reverse of the card, and also a password which you create with your own bank, which refers back live to your own bank/card issuer before allowing the payment to proceed. This additional payment process is called MasterCard SecureCode (MCSC) or Verified by Visa (VbyV). If you are already enrolled for MCSC or VbyV, it is important to ensure that Javascript is enabled on your computer. Pop-up killers should also be disabled before you proceed to allow the authentication pop-up window to display. The cardholder checks their details
including a Personal Message which assures them they are dealing with their issuing bank. The cardholder enters a personal password agreed with their issuing bank before selecting the Submit button to complete the membership registration.

You may use the MCSC or VbyV authentication step if you are already registered for it, or if you wish to enrol for it. But to avoid loss of transactions in the early stages of the introduction of authentication, WorldPay provides cardholders with the option to make a purchase without authentication/enrolment. This is to assist those cardholders unfamiliar with the enrolment/authentication process to continue to make a payment. So .....

If the cardholder closes the pop-up window in error, does not wish to enrol for authentication, or is unable to display the pop-up window because of software problems, they are still able to register their GTI membership and make a payment. If this is your situation, select the third option, ‘I do not want to enrol or authenticate using Verified by Visa, and click ‘Continue’ so that the transaction will be sent for authorisation and processed as a normal transaction.

We hope that this information will help the few people who have been frustrated by the payment procedure and deterred from completing their membership registration.

Vacances bonne marché pour l'année 2007

Green Theme International Echange de Maison : le N° 1 d’échange de maison pour les vacances

Pour ceux qui n’aiment ni la froideur impersonnelle des hotels, ni les circuits organizés, pour ceux qui cherchent des vacances bonne marché et originales, il existe une formule simple: l’échange international de residences. Vous prêtez votre maison à une famille qui elle, de son côté, vous ouvre également les portes de son appartement ou de sa villa. Et maintenant, sur l’internet tout cela est plus simple.

Green Theme International Echange de Maison était lancé en 1990. Sur leur site web: gti-home-exchange.com, la compagnie publie plus de 2,000 offres d’échanges et l’audience pour cette type de vacances ne cesse di croitre. Cette compagnie propose des villégieatures dans le Royaume-Uni, Europe et Scandinavie, en Amerique du Nord et du Sud, en Australie et ailleurs.

Pour une petite contribution les abonnés peuvent ajouter leur maison sur la liste et se servir de la banque de données sur le site pour trouver une sélection d’échanges possibles. On peut chercher votre échange idéale utilisant de nombreuses rubriques, par example “Destinations”, “Thèmes d’Activités” qui vous interessez, “les Dates de Vacances”, “Capacité d’herbergement” etc.

Notre activité principale est l’échange de maison, d’appartement ou de résidence secondaire. En revanche, si vous offrez ou cherchez une maison à louer, si vous disposez d’une chambre avec petit déjeuner pour les touristes de passage, ou si vous voulez recevoir une autre famille avec accord réciproque, nous pouvons vous aider. L’annuaire du site gti-home-exchange.com s’enrichit quotidiennement.