Get Paid to Travel: How to Polish and Present an Idea to an Editor
Learn how to highlight an idea in the first few sentences of your query letter and target it for the right audience -- and you'll immediately set yourself up for travel writing success.
The Best Job in the World - The Day I Knew It Was Real
The dancing yellow flames that provided a small island of light in the black jungle had all but disappeared. The only illumination left was a heaping mound of glowing coals that cast a dim, orange hue on the shadowed faces of my fellow travelers. Barely able to see each other in this open-sided gathering room, [...]
Leading Tours: Reader Funds Trip to Italy by Creating a Travel Tour
Kathy Scopin fell in love with Italy when she signed up for a 13-day bicycle trip from the Adriatic Sea to the Mediterranean. Since then, she’s returned every year for the last 15 years. Friends and family know how much Kathy loves it there. And whenever they want to plan a trip to Italy, she’s [...]
What You Need to Lead Tours for Profit and Fun
Read on for three skills that you'll need as a tour designer and guide when turning your ideas (no matter how normal or strange they may be) into a tour for profit so you can get paid to travel.
How to Get Paid to Travel Series: Writing
Get Paid to Travel! Become a Travel Writer Travel writing is quite possibly the best non-job in the world. It's fun. It gives you an excuse to travel -- and get paid to travel. It can bring with it instant "celebrity" status. (Just tell somebody that you write articles for magazines... and they'll start looking [...]
Get Paid to Travel: Can anybody be a travel writer?
Let me give it to you straight: I think anybody can be a travel writer.
Get Paid to Travel: How to Approach an Editor
How to Approach an Editor: Three Simple Keys for Crafting a Letter an Editor Will Read
Get Paid to Travel: Popular Headlines You Can Turn into Profitable Articles
Get Paid to Travel: They Laughed When I Started Travel Writing... Now I'm a Billionaire! For advice about travel writing, look to web sites aimed at travel writers? Yes, but you'll often discover inspirational tips in other places too. For instance, I came across an article on a copywriting web site. It was titled The [...]
