I'm speaking at a conference in Long Beach, CA this weekend on four
ways you can get paid to travel:
1. travel writing
2. photography
3. import/export
4. creating your own tours and workshops
These are the same money-making tools we're covering in our upcoming
workshop in Panama City, Panama this December
(http://www.thetravelwriterslife.com/tpi/panama ).
I have to tell you: The more I discover about the tour and workshop
element -- which is new to our program this year and what I've been
occupied with this week -- the more I understand just how expansive
the opportunity there is.
You wouldn't believe the kinds of tours that exist today. Interesting
niche tours you could not only enjoy... but get paid to take...
In fact, I was so amazed at some of them, I couldn't resist sharing a
few with you. Here are 14 of the strangest tours and cruises I found
inside and around the U.S. --
** 1. My favorite -- The Illegal Immigration Tour
In Mexico, you can sign up for a tour that simulates an illegal run
across the border. You're "shot at" by fake police. You have to hide
in the bushes in hopes of dodging border patrol. And in the end
you're told stories about the many men and women who've tried to move
their families across the border (some successfully... some not so).
Other strange and unique tours include:
** 2. Slum tours where you visit the slums in Africa, India and Asia
** 3. Prison tours where you can stop in (and sometimes talk to) real
prisoners
** 4. Illegal vodka tours where you visit illegal vodka-making
factories
** 5. Karaoke ghost tours
** 6. Hot glass blowing tours
** 7. Buried treasure tours
** 8. Underwater tours -- by submarine and/or by scuba
** 9. Pet tours -- walking tours where attendees bring their dogs and
portable water dishes
** 10. Pet casket factory tours where you can tour a real pet casket
factory and arrange for your pet's funeral services
** 11. Chess cruises where the entire boat is a competition
** 12. Polka cruises (Can you fill an entire boat full of polka
lovers? I guess you can.)
** 13. Armchair tours where you don't ever actually leave your chair,
you just watch presentations of the places you could go
** 14. And plastic surgery tours that take you to other countries and
help you through different surgeries abroad.
Of course there are many others. In fact, there are so many others,
we're gathering our favorites in a book we're putting together right
now, titled: "101 of the Strangest Tours and Cruises You Can Use to
Create the Ultimate Adventure."
Transvestite-led tours... bird-watching tours... scrapbooking tours...
night-vision penguin tours.
They're all inside.
And I'd be happy to give you a copy -- at no charge -- when you join
us in Panama.
While we're there, Cynthia Morris -- our lead presenter for this topic
-- is going to show you how to get paid to take tours like these. Plus
how to create tours around anything and everything you can think of...
and then sell them to others so that you can get paid to travel to the
coolest places and earn an income while enjoying your trips.
That's what she's expert at. And she's going to share all the hard-won
secrets she's picked up over the years... so you don't have to claw
your way up the same learning curve she did. It means you can be
up-and-running fast and getting paid to travel in no time...
But even if you can't join us in Panama, you CAN still get your hands
on a copy of our new "101 of the Strangest Tours and Cruises" report
-- FREE. (In fact, free is the only way you can get it. It's not for
sale at any price.)
So to get your copy, either --
A) Sign up for our Panama
How-to-Make-a-Six-Figure-Income-as-a-Traveler Workshop, here:
http://www.thetravelwriterslife.com/tpi/panama or...
B) Take advantage of our "Threebee Sale" -- available for the next
seven days only. It's our 3-for-1 value deal. And it works like this:
Agree to give our Ultimate Travel Writer's Program a try here today:
http://www.thetravelwriterslife.com/twr/rt/letushelp . And when you
do, we'll send you two special reports, FREE: our very popular "Travel
Around the World" (retail price: $39.95) and our brand new "101 of the
Strangest Tours and Cruises" (which we're pulling together right now).
They're yours to keep no matter what -- even if you decide the travel
writer's life isn't for you. So the risk is all mine. And the
good-value is all yours. You can snag this deal -- and get these two
special reports, FREE, here -- but only until October 9, 2008:
http://www.thetravelwriterslife.com/twr/rt/letushelp .
In keeping with our "strange travel" theme, stay tuned tomorrow for
eight of the strangest hotel and travel discounts on offer today.
And in another strange -- or, really, maybe it's just
counter-intuitive -- turn of events. With the economy in the toilet,
now may just turn out to be the best time to travel. I'll explain why
tomorrow.
-- Lori
Lori Allen
Director, AWAI Travel Division
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