The Best Small Business Ideas for Women In Travel
Are you, ladies, looking to start travelling full-time? Do you want to build a profitable business that allows you to cover your travel and day-to-day expenses? Is it time to work in the field you’re passionate about the most? Well, without further ado, here are some great small business ideas for women in travel that’ll help you live your dream life.
6 Travel-Related Small Business Ideas for Women
Here are some of the best business ideas for women looking to work in the travel industry. If you’re a creative boss girl, a hustler, and a travel enthusiast, these ideas are for you.
Start a travel blog
If you’ll be travelling anyway, why not document your travels, share your expertise, and make some money out of it?
Many travellers land on travel blogs while researching their next destination. So, imagine you’d be that credible source of information, inspire other aspiring travellers all while building a sustainable business from your greatest passion!
Building a well-established blog takes quite some time though – it may take months, or even years to take off. But that’s just like any other private business, right? So, it’s definitely worth the risk – just make sure it’s a calculated risk.
You need to invest in learning about blogging – it’s really not just writing (assuming you have the talent, of course). It’s more than just that. Blogging involves a lot of strategies and technical knowledge. You need to learn about SEO, email marketing, social media marketing, and Pinterest.
Once you get your game on and start growing, you can start earning money. There are several income streams that bloggers can capitalise on, such as sponsored posts, press trips, and content creation. Not to mention the passive income you can make out of affiliate marketing and ads revenue.
Become a travel writer
Another thing you can do, even besides blogging, is travel writing. A lot of businesses and websites in the travel industry hire copywriters and content writers to communicate their brand messages. So, if you have what it takes (AKA writing experience or talent), then this is a great business idea.
The travel industry is huge and full of lots of potential opportunities. Your clientele can be anything from other travel bloggers or local tour operators to luxury hotels and travel magazines. And if you already have a travel blog on the side, it could work as your portfolio at first and can help you get noticed.
Or a travel photographer
If photography is your skill, then this is also an untapped market you could explore. And there are tons of services you can offer – it’s not as limited as you may think.
For starters, you can target travellers and travel influencers who are visiting your home base. They’re always on the look for a talented photographer to help them capture great content for the gram –especially if they’re solo travellers. You can easily find those by promoting your service on Airbnb Experiences.
Another thing you can do is offer photography sessions for businesses in the hospitality sector such as hotels and hostels. Or you could accompany groups on their tours and excursions that are organised by hostels or tour operators. Having a photographer on a hike, for instance, is always good news.
Run your own tours
Another great small business idea for women in travel is running tours. But not just any tours, women-only tours. There are so many women out there hoping to travel the world in a safer environment, and as a female traveller yourself, an experienced one, you can offer them what they’re looking for.
All you need is expert knowledge of the destination(s) where you’re starting, lots of connections with suppliers and service providers, and mad planning skills. We’d recommend you start by designing one trip to a destination you’re very familiar with (preferably in your homeland) and get started from there. And once you become well-established and have a bigger team, you can expand your businesses.
Offer a travel concierge service
If you’re so good at planning your own trips, why not offer it as a service? After all, not everyone enjoys researching destinations or going through the hassle of travel logistics. Booking accommodation, finding the cheapest flights, and landing great deals may bring joy to some, but they’re also daunting tasks to others.
Now that we’ve established you have a target customer, if you’re a wizard at planning, we’ve found our small business a service provider. It’s a win-win!
Start your own travel marketing agency
You don’t need huge capital to start your own travel marketing agency. All that you mostly need is a really good creative team. We’re talking a talented photographer, videographer, art director, social media guru, copywriter, graphic designer, you name it. The more, the merrier, of course, but since you’re starting small, you don’t need to hire too many of each. You can do that when you close deals with more clients.
But what can you offer? And to whom? You can target luxury hotels, resorts, cruises, activity-based businesses, you name it. As for your offerings, well, you have plenty of options like social media management, content creation, copywriting, web development, web design, and much more.
Did we get the creative juices flowing, or not yet? We hope these small business ideas would trigger a thread of more ideas that would eventually lead to the core of your new business plan.
