Top Career Ideas Involving Travel

*This is a collaborative post on top career ideas that involve travel

If you love to travel, then it is a good idea to try and get a career that incorporates this. Yet without doing your research, you might not know which jobs are out there. There are the obvious ones such as a travel agent, but there are also many other careers that enable you to get out there and see the world as part of your vocation. If you are looking for a new job, or if you are just venturing out after college or university and want to find your dream position, we have some great ideas for you to look into. Here are some top careers involving travel.

Career ideas- Become a travel writer

A travel writer is one of the best positions if you can get into it as you can travel the world and write about what you have been up to and what you’ve seen. You can do this as a freelance writer or as part of a publication as an employee. If you can’t get a position in this right away, it is a good idea to set up your own travel blog to write about your travels and showcase your talent this way. It will help to make you look more appealing to future employees and show off what you can do.

Look into being a travel photographer/ videographer

Another travel career is to be a travel photographer or videographer. By studying video production you can learn all the necessary skills needed to travel the world and document your travels. This could lead to you filming travel documentaries to be aired on television, promos for destinations or working in the film industry. The options are endless and you will find that you learn so much along the way too. It’s a good idea to watch as many travel films and documentaries as you can to get a feel for how it is done.

Career ideas- Be a travel PR 

Travel PR is essentially working for a travel destination and promoting tourism to it. There are many ways that you can work in travel PR and the role is a vast and diverse one. Some of the duties involved in travel PR is liaising with journalists and helping to put them in touch with destinations, taking them on press trips to showcase the many activities and sights that places have to offer. You will get to immerse yourself in the destination, find out about their culture, their food and drinks scene and so much more. You might be in charge of just one location, or have many different ones that you look after, it depends on the job and the company that you work for.

These are just a few different ideas that you can use to get a dream career in travel. It is a good idea to look into the qualifications you might need and see if you can interview or speak to people that are already in the field. What career appeals the most to you?