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Smart holidaymakers are swapping houses, saving accommodation costs during trips overseas and within New Zealand.

One online exchange describes it as "the best-kept secret of these tough economic times".

In New Zealand, HomeLink's membership has grown from 80 to more than 400 over 13 years. They are part of an international membership of 14,000 offering homes all over the world.

Nelson has 27 active members, who have made repeated home exchange trips overseas, and in return Nelson is a popular destination among foreign visitors.

HomeLink NZ director John Martin said the scheme brought between 1000 to 1200 people to New Zealand, and they often stayed for more than a month.

He countered criticism that they were taking business away from commercial accommodation providers. "I suppose we are competition to some extent, but I don't think these people would come here if not offered a home.

"These people travel up and down the country. We believe we help New Zealand tourism by supporting other tourist operators."

The home swap idea is also catching on within New Zealand.

HomeLink Local was set up 18 months ago for home swaps within New Zealand and Australia, with a $130 fee, $100 cheaper than the international fee.

Martin said it was doing well and growing, attracting people who no longer wanted to travel long-distance to Europe or the United States, as well as those who were tentative about the scheme and were trying it out.

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(PRWEB UK) 13 January 2014

Tel Aviv, Ibiza, Vegas, Tokyo these names come easily enough to mind when thinking about the worlds best nightlife scenes. But there are more to this list and every year new places get added. Check out some of the exclusive clubs to hit it this year.

10. The Guvernment, Toronto

It gets hot and heavy in here; literally. On a good night therell barely be space to shake a leg. On the better nights, there wont be space to breathe; this is not a place to be sober. The music, the people and the sound will intrude deep into personal space. That said, the club has an state-of-the-art sound system, and a some brilliant concept rooms, especiallyKool Haus and the rooftop patio, Skybar.

9. Green Valley - Camboriu, Brazil

Right in the middle of the Amazon, at the entrance to a lush valley jungle is a club space unlike any other. Wooden bars surround the party arena, which is the largest in the country. In the pyrotechnics that dazzle thousands every night lies the secret behind this clubs blazing success. Its credited with reviving the nightlife scene in Brazil after a tragic fire killed hundreds in a club a few years ago.

8. Coco Bongo, Cancun, Mexico

Most nightclub fare is standard; a beat you can feel in your pulse, great people and insane cocktails. But Coco Bongo takes things to a whole new level: its as much a circus as it is a nightclub. The air is always thick with something, whther balloons, confetti, smoke or streamers. Its staff too is superlative in the service they provide. The best DJs have all played here and the music comes from the best of nightclub eras, so the dance floor is never, ever thin.

7. Chlosterli, Switzerland

The USP of this Swiss nightclub built into a historic chalet, is the crazy visual stimulus it offers to patrons. The dcor is an blend of some classic elements: wood, glass and stone. Combined with a luminous floor and a high tech sound system, the club manages to psyche its patrons up regardless of the booze. The ambience is near spiritual, and the wine selection is vast.

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Michaella McCollum arriving at court in Lima for sentencing in December. (Getty)

Speaking to the Sunday Life, the 20-year-old insisted she was not a "coke head" during her time working and socialising in Ibiza.

McCollum worked in bars there but said drugs featured more at house parties.

"Everyone does it, I don't think I know anyone out there that didn't," she told the newspaper.

"It was normal to go straight from work to a party with people you maybe didn't even know because most of the people out there, like me, came over by themselves to work.

"Now I look back and think, 'how stupid was I?'"

She reiterated that it was at a house party where she met the 'Cockney', who was the middle man in a drug plot by a Columbian gang.

McCollum and Scottish woman Mellissa Reid, also 20, were arrested in August at Jorge Chavez Airport in Callao as they attempted to board a flight to Spain with 11kg of cocaine.

In December, following a plea bargain, they were both sentenced to six years and eight months in jail for attempting to smuggle the drugs worth 1.5m out of the South American country.

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