Dear Reader,
I’m speaking at a conference in Long Beach, CA this weekend on four ways you can get paid to travel:
1. travel writing
2. photography
3. import/export
4. creating your own tours and workshops
These are the same money-making tools we’re covering in our upcoming workshop in Panama City, Panama this December.
I have to tell you: The more I discover about the tour and workshop element -- which is new to our program this year and what I’ve been occupied with this week -- the more I understand just how expansive the opportunity there is.
You wouldn’t believe the kinds of tours that exist today. Interesting niche tours you could not only enjoy… but get paid to take…
In fact, I was so amazed at some of them, I couldn’t resist sharing a few with you. Here are 14 of the strangest tours and cruises I found inside and around the U.S. --
** 1. My favorite -- The Illegal Immigration Tour
In Mexico, you can sign up for a tour that simulates an illegal run across the border. You’re “shot at” by fake police. You have to hide in the bushes in hopes of dodging border patrol. And in the end you’re told stories about the many men and women who’ve tried to move their families across the border (some successfully… some not so).
Other strange and unique tours include:
** 2. Slum tours where you visit the slums in Africa, India and Asia
** 3. Prison tours where you can stop in (and sometimes talk to) real prisoners
** 4. Illegal vodka tours where you visit illegal vodka-making factories
** 5. Karaoke ghost tours
** 6. Hot glass blowing tours
** 7. Buried treasure tours
** 8. Underwater tours -- by submarine and/or by scuba
** 9. Pet tours -- walking tours where attendees bring their dogs and portable water dishes
** 10. Pet casket factory tours where you can tour a real pet casket factory and arrange for your pet’s funeral services
** 11. Chess cruises where the entire boat is a competition
** 12. Polka cruises (Can you fill an entire boat full of polka lovers? I guess you can.)
** 13. Armchair tours where you don’t ever actually leave your chair, you just watch presentations of the places you could go
** 14. And plastic surgery tours that take you to other countries and help you through different surgeries abroad.
Of course there are many others. In fact, there are so many others, we’re gathering our favorites in a book we’re putting together right now, titled: “101 of the Strangest Tours and Cruises You Can Use to Create the Ultimate Adventure.”
Transvestite-led tours… bird-watching tours… scrapbooking tours… night-vision penguin tours.
They’re all inside.
And I’d be happy to give you a copy -- at no charge -- when you join us in Panama.
While we’re there, Cynthia Morris -- our lead presenter for this topic -- is going to show you how to get paid to take tours like these. Plus how to create tours around anything and everything you can think of… and then sell them to others so that you can get paid to travel to the coolest places and earn an income while enjoying your trips.
That’s what she’s expert at. And she’s going to share all the hard-won secrets she’s picked up over the years… so you don’t have to claw your way up the same learning curve she did. It means you can be up-and-running fast and getting paid to travel in no time…
Sign up now for our Panama How-to-Make-a-Six-Figure-Income-as-a-Traveler Workshop, and I'll reserve you a copy of “101 of the Strangest Tours and Cruises You Can Use to Create the Ultimate Adventure" for FREE.
In keeping with our “strange travel” theme, stay tuned tomorrow for eight of the strangest hotel and travel discounts on offer today.
And in another strange -- or, really, maybe it’s just counter-intuitive -- turn of events. With the economy in the toilet, now may just turn out to be the best time to travel. I’ll explain why tomorrow.
-- Lori
Lori Allen
Director, AWAI Travel Division
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