Side Hustle With a Tour Guide Service
Here’s a unique way to make extra money. If you’re looking to start a new side hustle and live in an area where there’s a ton of tourism, you might be interested in trying to make your own tour-guide service. There’s plenty of different sites available that’ll let you give it a shot, so let’s break them down and you might just have found a brand new way to make money on the side.
Rent-a-Guide
Rent-a-Guide focuses on guided day tours, although they also accept tours for up to three days at a time. They’re a very professional company, so you can be sure that you’ll be thoroughly vetted before you will be accepted to their program.
Their application process is simple to fill out and they offer a wide range of different tours. Depending on what you know and like to do, you might want to offer a hiking tour or a mountain tour, or just a quick roundabout of the normal tourist locations in the area you live in.
Once accepted, you can then set up different offers for different activities. It’s pretty viable and if you make it through the application process you’re definitely in a position to make some cash.
ToursByLocals is similar to Rent-a-Guide, and you’ll be able to apply easily from their home page. Before you can offer tours you’ll be vetted for language skills and then interviewed in order to make sure that you’re a good fit for the company’s needs.
The tour you offer will be vetted, of course, but if you have something unique to offer then apply and you’ll stand to make some money as an independent contractor. This can mean some serious money if you manage the right balance between a unique tour and cost.
You’ll also receive some training to make sure that you’re up to standards, and it’s a viable option for those who are looking to make some extra money as a tour guide.
Vayable bills themselves as selling experiences rather than tours, and what this makes for is a diverse piece of the economy where nearly anyone can make some cash. If you’ve got a unique view of the place you’re living in, and you’re willing to share it, then you stand a good chance on the site.
Many people simply use it as a place to make transactions secure and instead bill themselves out through their own websites as their own business.
Due to Vayable’s unique perspective, you definitely want to be able to offer something more special than just a local’s look at the landmarks in the area. It’s particularly great for those who know a city intimately and have an engaging personality to describe it with.
In fact, part of the application process will require you to send in a video in order to make sure that you actually can offer something new. Don’t get too worked up about it if you decide to give it a shot, other than that it will be the normal vetting process that the other sites use.
Which to Use?
All three of the sites are a viable platform to begin offering tours. Remember if you’re doing it, however, that you’re still running your own business and you aren’t an employee. Setting up a website to bring people in and linking to your account on one of the above sites is probably the best way to go about things.
All in all, working as a tour guide can be an impressive income sideline if you live in an area where it’s in demand, and since you’ll be able to set your own rates and work your own hours there’s a surprising amount of flexibility.
If you think you’ve got what it takes, give it a shot. It might just be the coolest way to make extra money you’ve ever found.
