[header] How to get paid to travel around the world [title] Become a tour guide. [step] While tour directors are responsible for the logistics, confirmations, overall planning and group dynamics, a tour guide offers specific, in-depth knowledge of a place. There are tours, in need of tour guides, all over the world. 
Becoming a tour guide is a good way to get paid at a global destination site. [substeps] There are training programs for people interested in becoming tour guides or tour directors, including the international tour management institute (itmi) in san francisco, and the international guide academy in colorado.