Organizers of the 2015 World Meeting of Families event in Philadelphia have selected IABCN member company, Homestay.com as the alternative accommodation solution. 

Two million visitors from all over the world are expected to visit Philadelphia from the 22nd to the 27th of September 2015 for the World Meeting of Families congress and a Papal visit by Pope Francis. Local residents in the Philadelphia region and Tri-State area are being asked to sign up as host families for the event and welcome visitors into their homes during the celebrations.

People will travel from all over the world to attend the event. Many are already booking their accommodation. The event needs 10,000 local residents to sign to meet the expected demand as there simply aren’t enough hotels to accommodate everyone. Don’t delay! Sign up today to become a host family during the event and be a part of the celebrations.

Homestay.com is a Dublin-based, start-up company founded by a highly experienced team. Homestay.com was started by Tom Kennedy and Debbie Flynn, who together saw an opportunity to take an offline industry online and bring homestays from the education travel sector into mainstream leisure travel.

Homestay.com is an online booking platform for travel accommodation. Homestays allow guests to book a room in a local person’s home on a nightly, weekly or monthly basis for a fee. In all of our homestays there is a host present during the stay, enhancing the guest’s travel experience through their hospitality and local knowledge.