Gap Year Series: Part 4
Not everyone who dreams of travelling the world, experiencing culture, and growing as an individual can cough up the financials. And let’s face it, travel take a lot of “cha-ching.” For your Gap Year, consider something different.
There are opportunities, without having to pay for your travels, actually the exact opposite. Get paid for travelling the world.
Places like S-Trip offer full time destination employment, where not only do you travel, but also participate in activities, make friendships, and take on place of leadership.
S-Trip is a center that helps high schools plan graduation trips for senior classes. S-Trip was created in 1976, and has taken over 125,000 students across the world. Their main priorities as a company are creating friendships, and experiencing culture.
Another popular student travel center is Breakaway Tours. Breakaway differs from S-Trip by offering Canadian destinations, like Mont Temblant, Quebec City and Downtown Montreal for high school students and more tropical destinations for college campus vacations.
A big question for prospective trip leaders is: “Is this job going to feel like babysitting or am I actually going to enjoy this?”
Amanda Olson, 26, from Oakville, has travelled to multiple locations with student tour company Breakaway Tours, as a trip leader, like Mexico, Dominican Republic, and Punta Cana. She has also travelled all over the world solo, backpacking though Europe and even lived in Thailand.
Amanda says, “I love interacting with the younger students, the girls look at me like the cool big sister, and we have a great time together.” In Amanda’s position as a trip leader, she and other trip leaders also gets to stay an additional three to four days at the vacation destination at no expense.
Remember this is still a job, there is still responsibility, but if you’re looking for an affordable way to travel and experience different locations and culture, we here at Destination Vacation don’t think it gets and better than getting paid to travel!
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