3 Ways to Create an Online Travel Income

Imagine this: you wake up in the glamorous, exotic, or rustic location of your choice. A smile sneaks its way onto your face. You’re living your dream of traveling the world… and, here’s the best part – you’re getting paid for it.

It is extremely difficult to write about this subject without sounding ‘hypey’ and ‘salesy,’ so let me just lay out the facts, and I’ll let you come up with your own conclusions:

Hundreds of billions of dollars change hands online every year.

•    Thousands of one-man-business entrepreneurs are making a portion of this money.
•    Internet technology has made business possible from anywhere in the world. All you need is a laptop or Internet café…
•    With a little bit of training and know-how, creating a profitable business online that takes in a few thousand dollars per month takes about 30-90 days.
•    There’s a growing underground community whose strategies have them making more money than their friends with ‘Jobs’ and they get to travel to wherever they like.

There are the facts. If you put it all together, there is no reason you can’t take an extremely small piece of the pie. In fact, if you made .00001% of the money being made online you’d be ridiculously rich! (more…)

Starting Your Online Travel Career

I did some research on this and found out that the Online Travel industry is growing fast and the best part is that it is generating numerous jobs and many people around the world are setting up their own online travel companies.

How do they do that? I did that assignment too and I wanted to share the information I learned from those who have succeeded and who have been earning way more than the average income from their previous jobs.

There are sites that are currently providing all the stuff needed to start a new career in this industry and they are termed as Online Travel Consultant or Online Travel Booking Agent. One site I saw provided me some hints on how to do this even in your own home. One company that really got my attention is The Personal Travel Group. Here is what they told me:-

First, you must watch their informative video which explains the business opportunity to you. After this you complete an online registration application on their web site. You will then be invited to one of their information centres for a full explanation. Once accepted and signed up, they will provide you with access to their system, your own web site and a password. (more…)

Reasons for Enrolling in Travel and Tourism Courses and Choosing an Online Tourism Certificate

The giant global tourism industry has gotten bigger over the past years, sparking a steady demand for tourism workers from tourist guides and travel agents to marketing and public relations officers. Whether you’re looking to have a solid start or advance your career in this field, getting a travel diploma or tourism certificate is an excellent first step.

A typical coursework for a travel diploma program includes diverse travel and tourism courses such as Tourism Compliance, Conflict Situation Management, Customer Service, Cultural Awareness, Travel Accounting and Reservation Systems, just to name a few. A tourism certificate program offers similar subjects, although it is usually designed as an introduction to the industry and is therefore suitable to someone completely new to the field.

Because of the wide range of subjects that are available, taking travel and tourism courses is not just for tourism career aspirants or professional travel agents. Travel enthusiasts can also take advantage of many travel and tourism courses to enrich their travel experiences like Travel Geography, Basic Language Courses for Tourists or Basic Courses on World Cuisines. (more…)

Report of Chinese Online Tourism Industry under International Financial Crisis, 2009

China’s position in the tourism development in the world has been rising, the fourth largest entry receiving country in the world and the largest exit tourist source country in Asia. From 2000 to 2008, the total revenues of Chinese tourism increased by 12.5% annually (by CNY). In 2008, China totally received tourists about 1.89 billion man-time, rising by 5.9% of last year, realizing the tourism revenues of 1.16 trillion CNY ?166 billion USD?, increased by 5.8% of last year.

The slowdown of economy growth negatively affected the tourism, leading to the slowdown of growth rate, even negative growth, especially in entry tourism market, exit tourism market and hotel industry etc. By contrast, domestic tourism market and scenic resorts were less influenced by the slowdown of economy growth

With the spread of international financial crisis, the unfavorable influences had clearly showed in Chinese tourism.

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