5 Business Ideas For Travel Lovers

Want to be your own boss during this journey?

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Travelling is one of the most aspirational things for an individual. Everyone wants some personal time and travelling is one of the best stressbusters of all time. Tour and travel industry employees millions of individuals in India and is expected to grow at 10% CAGR for at-least 10 years.

Do you want to explore the world? Want to be your own boss during this journey? You have landed in the right place. Here, we will share 5 ideas to start your travel business for people who love to travel.

Travel Blogger

If you love writing and photography, then travel blog could be an opportunity to several dream destinations. Bloggers can create helpful guides, explore new cities, take eye catchy photos, and provide recommendations and tips on their websites.

Before you start it, understand that blogging can be tough and time-consuming. It takes couple of years to make money out of blogging, but when you do, you are getting paid to travel the world and write about it.

If you don’t love writing but you are smart with a camera, then you can become travel vlogger. With YouTube, vlogging is a profitable business. You can create videos on travelling the world and visiting the best tourist spots.

Travel Agency

Travel agents help people plan vacations and trips across the world. They often have specialties for different countries and niches. You can start your own home-based travel agency either through a franchise or nonfranchise agency depending on your budget. You have need to obtain a certification and pay a monthly fee if you partner with a host agency.

Travel Event Planner

Event planners plan corporate meetings and events. They usually arrange everything from catering to selecting the location to travel lodging. If you have networking, time-management, and organizational skills, you could travel the world as an event planner.

Social Media Influencer

If you have large social media followers, then you can make steady income through sponsored posts and pictures. Many brands use influencers to advertise their product and encourage followers to buy from them. Some brands even pay social media influencers to attend their events and post about it on social media.

Public Speaker

If you have expertise in your field and solve public problems in that field, people want to hear from you then you can be a public speaker. Public speakers often travel across the country or even world to spread their message to million so people. They can also have other source of income as a social media influencer, or creating a blog, selling books etc.

Conclusion

It is a great idea if you are planning to start your travel business, but it might take some time to earn money from it. But if you are a travel lover then you can make your passion as your business in the long run. There are many opportunities out there, find the right expertise and get started with it. Your passion for travel can become your business if you are serious about it.