What You Need to Lead Tours for Profit and Fun
Read on for three skills that you’ll need as a tour designer and guide when turning your ideas (no matter how normal or strange they may be) into a tour for profit so you can get paid to travel.
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Six-Figure Photography from USA Today…
To help you stay on top of emerging trends in travel writing and photography — so you can keep tabs on where the money is — I wanted to pass along two articles that caught my eye recently, one from The New York Times and the other from USA Today… This first one is about…
Mardi Gras Photos and Workshop Testimonials
Yesterday I told you about the laughs we had when attendees at the Mardi Gras-themed photo shoot we ran last weekend in New Orleans turned the studio lights on themselves and had some fun in between sessions posing in a Mardi Gras pimp hat, feather boa, and mask. I haven’t laughed that hard in a…
Winter Wandering in the Swiss Alps
By Tom FaklerSitting sipping coffee at Berghotel Schwarenbach, located 2,061 meters above sea level in the Swiss Alps, you look out onto snow-covered mountains as the sun peeks over the ridge. It’s 11 a.m. and the sun is just shining down on your outside table, warming you as you sip your hot coffee. The mountains…
Boston’s North End: No Time, No Reservations, No Worries!
By David Barabani After paying your fare, you slide out of your cab and embark down the famous Hanover Street in Boston’s version of Europe — the North End. Paul Revere stoically sits atop his horse in front of the Old North Church, commemorating his famous ride. The smell of garlic sautéed in exotic olive…
Time Stands Still in the Everglades
By Suzanne LaBergeFlung like a silk scarf across the western sky, the purple and orange sunset reflected off the walls of the dining room at the Everglades City Rod and Gun Club. The year could have been 1922. That’s when entrepreneur Barron Collier discovered this little town on Chokoloskee Bay in remote southwest Florida. Teddy…
Wildlife and Luxury: On Safari in Tanzania
By Dan ReichPhotos by Ellen GoldsteinThe imposing buffalo glared, his angry eyes and horns lit by our Maasai escort’s flashlight. “Yi-yi-yi!” shouted the Maasai, shaking his flashlight violently. The buffalo stood motionless. “Yi-yi-yi!” The buffalo lunged in our direction and stopped. Again, the Maasai shouted, waving his flashlight, and the buffalo sauntered off into the…
Midnight on the Seine
By George Cagala The Seine after dark. I thought I was going out for a quiet stroll along the river, the energy of the day having yielded to the serenity of the night. I was wrong. I discover this after my wife falls asleep early one evening following a long, taxing day of shopping,…
Hidden in the Jaguar Jungle – Mexico
By Heather RathPlease don’t feed the jaguars. The sign jolted us to a stop as we wound our way along the bumpy road to Villas Ecotucan (www.villasecotucan.info) on Lake Bacalar in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. “Are there really jaguars around here?” we ask Jacqueline, our hostess and nature guide.She smiles and nods. “My husband spotted one…
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