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Airbnb is awesome and all, but for a vegan, the odds of landing in a household that’s free from animal products isn’t exactly in a traveler’s favor. Luckily Vegvisits is coming—an innovative home-sharing booking service designed to cater to herbivores (basically, it’s Airbnb for vegans).

The site is the brainchild of vegan husband-and-wife team Nicholas and Linsey Minnella. The two discovered the joys of Airbnb during an extended trip across the U.S., and while they loved staying in people’s homes and connecting with local communities, their experience was even better when they stayed with fellow vegans or vegetarians.

“We realize traveling (well, for us at least) is about experiencing new things, but when it comes to a lifestyle so many vegans/vegetarians are passionate about, we figured a travel community that accommodates it is certainly necessary,” Nicholas explains. “It can already be tough enough when you’ve settled down in a place to comfortably live a lifestyle the majority of the world doesn’t share but it can become magnified when traveling in an unknown part of the world.”

Similar values and interests means hosts can share insider information with guests—local produce spots, nature trails, restaurant recommendations and more.

The site will allow travelers to search accommodations based on numerous criteria including diets like vegan, vegetarian and raw; as well as specific kitchen appliances. If you can’t live without access to a food processor, for example, the site will help you find a home that has one.

The duo anticipates launching Vegvisits early this summer.

“We’ve already gotten a very good response that we’d feel comfortable opening with given density and breadth of interest, but we’ll likely open it up to the hosts at the end of June and have the site formally open by the first few weeks of July,” Nicholas says.

For those who haven’t experienced home sharing, Nicholas highly recommends it.

“Home-sharing travel is an amazing experience. I think it is all about simply connecting. Hosts connecting with people all over the world, while also getting paid, and travelers connecting with the communities they travel to. It is very beautiful. Instead of travel being dominated by a few big hotel brands, why not have the communities themselves be the emissaries to the global world of travelers?”

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