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Degree Options for Those Who Want to Work in the Travel Industry

November 15, 2017 by Thomas Hedley

Do you have a love of travel? Whether you enjoy going abroad or across the United States, a travel-related degree is a great way to create opportunities to work in and around the travel industry.

There’s more than one relevant college study program to give you the chance to work in tourism, so let’s see what your options are.

Travel and Tourism Degree

A travel and tourism degree or one in travel services focus mostly on the service side of the industry. Here, we’re talking about working in a travel agency, behind the scenes of tour companies helping to manage the logistics and other aspects that don’t necessarily involve flitting from place to place all the time. Either of these degree options will suit you if you don’t want to always be on the move, but you enjoy the travel industry in general.

Some degrees major or minor in areas such as international travel, tour structuring or airline ticketing, which then open the door to careers which incorporate one or more of these aspects. Depending on the degree and level of specialization, there are some scholarships found at usascholarships.com that make the cost of college easier to manage.

Tourism and Hospitality Management Degree

A Tourism and Hospitality Management degree offers opportunities to move up in your travel industry career. The program focuses on the types of knowledge and skills required to operate a travel agency, be a travel industry strategic planner, or work in hospitality areas like a food provision business supporting travelers.

Creating group tours for corporations or special events for honeymooners is certainly on the cards with this type of degree. Anyone who likes either leading tours and planning them will certainly find this career path enjoyable.

Digital Media or Journalism Degree

An unconventional path to working in travel is to study for one of the many new degrees focused on the internet and digital media. Alternatively, a degree course focused on journalism or videography would also be useful. The idea is to become educated in the ways to communicate with people about travel, either in written or video form.

Many people now pursue their interest in travel by publishing a YouTube channel covering their adventures and making money through advertising on YouTube, product placement promotions on Instagram, and selling eBooks on their blog. Expert Vagabond is a good example of someone who travels widely and documents their exploits on both YouTube and their blog too. Overlander.tv is another one; an Aussie videographer who documents his travels featuring information on the local culture, the culinary scene and his insights along the way.

The good thing about a career in travel and tourism is that there is no longer only one way to enter this sector. Some people avoid the degree altogether and choose to work as cabin crew on an airline to enjoy more foreign (or domestic) travel. Younger people are often sold on joining the US Navy to “see the world” when they reach a foreign port. It’s all just a question of how you go about getting access to the travel industry. What will you decide?

Filed Under: Travel Tips Tagged With: degree, education, learning, travel, travel industry, work and travel

Making Money On Your Travels

October 23, 2017 by Thomas Hedley

In today’s fast paced environment many people are deciding to take some time out to do travelling. While a year of travelling the world used to always be reserved for the cliche of students on a gap year, many older people are now making the time to go off exploring. While travelling the world is a wonderful thing to do, it can come at a hefty price tag. Most people are not lucky enough to have savings that they can turn to when they wish to travel but others have to try and find ways to make money while they are abroad. Luckily there are many convenient ways to make money while travelling the world.

Blogging

A lot of people still scoff at the notion of making money blogging, and although it can be hard to get off of the ground it can actually be really lucrative in the travel niche.If you set up a self hosted blog you will be able to sell advertising space and get a certain amount of money per click. You need quite a large following to do this so it is best to start your blog and get everything in place before you go. Although you do need a large following to make money from hosting advertising space on your blog this is incredibly easy to do with a travel blog as many people thinking of going to your destination will find the information useful to them.

Sell pictures online

When you are snapping pictures of beautiful places on your travels, thinking bigger than your Instagram account can actually be fairly lucrative. Websites like Shutterstock or Getty allow you to sell your photos online to be used as stock photos for websites. Although it is unlikely you will get a lot of that picture you took of your cat asleep for your snapchat, travel pictures are actually able to command big bucks. There are other websites like Fotolia that also give you the chance to sell your photos online. If you have the time you could even draw up a contract and sell them directly by showcasing them on your website. One of the main things you will need to remember if you are going to use your photography skills to sell photos online is that once you have sold them to someone else you no longer have the right to use them. Many bloggers and websites rely on stock photos so you will not be able to use the image once it is sold for your personal social media.

Online trading

The thought of online trading can sound incredibly intimidating to someone who has no previous knowledge of the stock market. It’s perfectly understandable that many people do not consider this a viable option to make extra funds but more and more people are learning the trading basics and earning extra cash for a minimal amount of work. Some online trading platform companies offer an online trading platform that allow you to trade in instruments such as forex, stocks and shares, CFD’s and mutual funds. Trading forex is especially fun while travelling as you will get to see the differences between currencies first hand. Starting an online trading account does not take long and you are able to practice with a practice mode of the website before you deposit funds and actually start investing. Online trading companies all more or less also offer a mobile app so that you do not need to be chained to your laptop while you are trying to enjoy your travels.

Filed Under: Travel Tips Tagged With: digital nomad, finance, make money and travel, money, travel, work and travel

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