The retiree
travel dream
It is the dream of millions: being paid to travel
around the country or around the world. To
reach this goal some people decide to become travel
writers. Others consider becoming tour guides
to make their paid travel dreams comes true.
Both working as a travel writer and being a tour
guide are much more challenging than the jobs might
seem initially.
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The highway to added income
While man people want to write travel
articles, fewer and fewer magazines and
newspapers are willing to pay for them.
If you have your heart set on helping
defer part of your costs by writing about
your travels, consider
setting up a website or paid-for blog
and being your own publisher.
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To earn money you can go to Google's Adsense and sign
up to have ads automatically provided to your website.
Then when visitors to your website click on the ads, you
will be paid by Google. The chances are you will
not earn a lot of money, but you can make some if your
site becomes popular.
For more information about setting up a travel or
tourist website, visit our
making money
online page.
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Tour guide or 24 hour nanny?
"Grueling" is the best word to describe being a
guide for tourists traveling for weeks on
vacation. Yes, you get to travel for
free--and will be paid very little. Your
responsibilities include dealing with tired and
sometimes difficult tourists, solving problems
on the run, occasionally facing a health
crisis, and being on-call 24 hours a day.
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Consider
another alternative: becoming a local or regional tour
guide. For this job you get on the bus in the
morning with a bunch of tourists, tell them about local
sites, local history, and local tales. At the end
of the day you go home and can get on with your life.
You are spared much of the hand-holding and caretaker
responsibilities of tour guides who travel
internationally.
Working at
National Parks and resorts can be
found here.
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