Finance Your Travel As A Freelance Tour Guide

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How To Finance Your Travel as a Freelance Tour Guide or Entertainer 

If you like to travel and explore new things, you might enjoy becoming a freelance tour guide or entertainer. To do this, you’ll need to have some experience to get the gigs, but once you do, you can travel all over the country and the world by financing your travel as a freelance tour guide or on-site entertainer.  Keep reading to learn more about how all the different ways you can finance your travel as a Freelance Tour Guide!

Freelance as a Tour Guide 

If you have an in on the good things to do, whether food or activities, in any area, you can become a tour guide. Work with local businesses to get discounts that you can pass on to your group, and not only will you make some money, but you’ll get to go on the tour free. 

Become a Ski Instructor 

Are you a talented and trained skier? If so, you can turn that into becoming a part-time freelance ski instructor. You may need to talk to the people in your area to find out how to legally do it because each run is different on what they allow, but most of the time, you’ll easily be able to do it.

Teach Scuba Diving 

If you like scuba diving, get certified as an instructor, and then you can teach scuba but also take people on scuba tours if you have a boat, rental equipment, and a place people want to dive available to you. 

Organize Exciting Group Tours in Exotic Places 

Did you go on a trip to a place you loved so much that you want to do it again? You can arrange group tours and trips to exotic places. You organize everything, find the people who want to go, and you get to go free and make money.

Be an Entertainer on a Cruise Ship 

If you don’t want to organize travel, but you want to do some traveling, one way to do it is to offer your expertise as an entertainer on a cruise ship. Some are 1099, freelancers, and some are outright employees. It’s best to try to work as a 1099 person, though, so you have more freedom about what you can and can’t do during your travels. 

Play Piano at a Bar 

Many bars or nice restaurants would love to have some beautiful background music, but they don’t often have the funds to pay outright for someone full time. Plus, sometimes they don’t have the equipment. This may give you an opening to offer your own piano or a rental to be delivered in exchange for you playing for tips or for a smaller fee than you would if you did it full time. You can also do this with other types of musical ability. 

Be a Campsite Worker 

All across the country, and even overseas, there are campgrounds that need people to work them. They typically don’t pay much, but they do offer free lodging, plus perks and a stipend of some kind. Usually, you won’t work more than 20 hours a week, 10 each if you’re a couple, so the rest of your time is for you to explore. 

Play Music or Sing in Parks and Public Areas 

If you have a good singing voice and or play a musical instrument that you can easily carry around, you can perform in public places. Often you do have to get a license, but they’re usually not that expensive. 

Start a Band 

If you really like traveling and performing, start a band with a group. Then you can all travel around to new places and perform gigs. Some gigs can be paid upfront by the location, but you can also do pop up gigs that allow people to donate money, depending on the rules and regulations of the area. 

Remember that the point of working is to earn your travel and to explore new things. That means you need to earn money, but it doesn’t mean that you need to earn money at a typical job. Most people don’t realize this, but you don’t really need a job, you just need income, and you can get income in many ways besides a normal job.

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