Swap a spare room for language lessons

Entrepreneurial siblings Deirdre Bounds and Ian O’Sullivan have invested €55,000 in an online travel platform that encourages people to barter skills for free accommodation while travelling at home and overseas.

Leeds-based Bounds and O’Sullivan – who lives in Dungarvan, Co Waterford – ran ethical travel company i-to-i for 12 years, before selling the venture to British ...