Getting Paid To Travel? Here are 8 Travel Careers You Can Start Now.
Tour Guide: Here’s an interesting career. Douglas Wren, Vice President of Wren & Fida has parlayed his love of travel into a spectacular business and career as a Certified TravelConsultant. Doug and his family reside in North Salt Lake City, Utah, but when I reached out to him for this interview he responded to me from Tanzania. As a line of business, Wren & Fida International offers a variety of travel-related services including meeting management, travel arrangement, guided group tours. What are the benefits? In Wren’s case, he’s a featured speaker at international events, and has co-hosted several broadcast and radio shows. Meanwhile he’s traveled Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East—all in the line of business.
Become a Travel Writer. Consider Kate Rice, writer for TravelPulse. Or Johnny Jet, the popular travel tips writer just featured in AFAR Magazine. It’s a glamorous idea, popular enough entire courses are dedicated to the strategies of breaking into this field. At the end of the day, however, despite the thrill of occasional all-expenses paid travel to exotic locations, many aspects of travel writing are also mundane. Demanding editors, less-than-interesting topics and the classic challenges of a freelance occupation (feast and famine cash flow, many solitary hours and the need to be extremely self disciplined) are also de rigueur for this choice of career. But, for many it’s the kind of a business they dream of. If you have a talent for writing and a yen to give it a try, perhaps give it a go on a project or two before taking the full do-or-die leap.
Travel bloggers. You could start a website like Stefanie Michaels, self described “Everywhereist” who runs the Adventure Girl website and blog. Flying the inaugural flight of the ZERO-G zero gravity plane with Buzz Aldrin, and a popular celebrity and source on everything ranging from E! Entertainment to Vanity Fair makes Stefanie a bona fide celebrity. Few travel bloggers attain this status, but many great travel-related careers have emerged for individuals who blog. Another great example—Christopher Elliott, a highly popular travel reporter I first worked with 12 years ago on the launch of an outdoor product. Chris has now become the leading voice of travel-related consumer interests in his columns on www.Elliott.org, as well as a popular weekly columnist for Washington Post. Here’s a recent posting from Chris’s video channel on YouTube:
How to get started? Using Twitter, social media, and a personal blog to share travel-related stories might help determine if you have the affinity to turn this interest into a part time or a full time career. Many individuals with fulltime careers find the opportunity to travel blog on the side, such as my own friend Maile, who recen
ly became a regular blog columnist for Huffington Post.
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