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If you’re looking for a job with big travel bonuses, Fortune has a list of places to send your resumé .

According to Fortune ’s list of “100 Best Companies,” Hilton skyrocketed to become the best company to work for in 2019.

Last year, the company was only ranked 33rd on the list. The hotel company (which also includes Waldorf Astoria, Conrad, and Embassy Suites, among others) recently underwent sweeping changes regarding employee culture.

“We forgot that we are a business of people serving people, and the corporate environment got very disconnected from the front line,” Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta told Fortune .

According to Great Place to Work , 96 percent of Hilton employees say the company is a great place to work. Top favorite attributes include opportunities to travel, a “family” feel, and company benefits. According to Glassdoor, one of the best company perks is “being able to book rooms at any Hilton Worldwide property on staff rates.”

Also included in the top 10 best companies was Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants . Coming in at No. 5 on the list, employees of the boutique hotel and restaurant company praised its “thoughtful” culture. Those who go above and beyond the call of duty can redeem their good deeds for rewards like Apple Watches, spa gift certificates, or days off.

Although Mariott came in 31st on the overall list, on Fortune ’s list of best large companies, the hotel chain placed second. Hyatt Hotels came in the rankings at 32nd. Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts ranked 89th on the list.

Transportation based-companies appeared less frequently on the list than hospitality. The highest people-moving company on the list was Delta Air Lines, ranking at No. 97.

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The future of tourism: Bridging the labor gap, enhancing customer experience

As travel resumes and builds momentum, it’s becoming clear that tourism is resilient—there is an enduring desire to travel. Against all odds, international tourism rebounded in 2022: visitor numbers to Europe and the Middle East climbed to around 80 percent of 2019 levels, and the Americas recovered about 65 percent of prepandemic visitors 1 “Tourism set to return to pre-pandemic levels in some regions in 2023,” United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), January 17, 2023. —a number made more significant because it was reached without travelers from China, which had the world’s largest outbound travel market before the pandemic. 2 “ Outlook for China tourism 2023: Light at the end of the tunnel ,” McKinsey, May 9, 2023.

Recovery and growth are likely to continue. According to estimates from the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) for 2023, international tourist arrivals could reach 80 to 95 percent of prepandemic levels depending on the extent of the economic slowdown, travel recovery in Asia–Pacific, and geopolitical tensions, among other factors. 3 “Tourism set to return to pre-pandemic levels in some regions in 2023,” United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), January 17, 2023. Similarly, the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) forecasts that by the end of 2023, nearly half of the 185 countries in which the organization conducts research will have either recovered to prepandemic levels or be within 95 percent of full recovery. 4 “Global travel and tourism catapults into 2023 says WTTC,” World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), April 26, 2023.

Longer-term forecasts also point to optimism for the decade ahead. Travel and tourism GDP is predicted to grow, on average, at 5.8 percent a year between 2022 and 2032, outpacing the growth of the overall economy at an expected 2.7 percent a year. 5 Travel & Tourism economic impact 2022 , WTTC, August 2022.

So, is it all systems go for travel and tourism? Not really. The industry continues to face a prolonged and widespread labor shortage. After losing 62 million travel and tourism jobs in 2020, labor supply and demand remain out of balance. 6 “WTTC research reveals Travel & Tourism’s slow recovery is hitting jobs and growth worldwide,” World Travel & Tourism Council, October 6, 2021. Today, in the European Union, 11 percent of tourism jobs are likely to go unfilled; in the United States, that figure is 7 percent. 7 Travel & Tourism economic impact 2022 : Staff shortages, WTTC, August 2022.

There has been an exodus of tourism staff, particularly from customer-facing roles, to other sectors, and there is no sign that the industry will be able to bring all these people back. 8 Travel & Tourism economic impact 2022 : Staff shortages, WTTC, August 2022. Hotels, restaurants, cruises, airports, and airlines face staff shortages that can translate into operational, reputational, and financial difficulties. If unaddressed, these shortages may constrain the industry’s growth trajectory.

The current labor shortage may have its roots in factors related to the nature of work in the industry. Chronic workplace challenges, coupled with the effects of COVID-19, have culminated in an industry struggling to rebuild its workforce. Generally, tourism-related jobs are largely informal, partly due to high seasonality and weak regulation. And conditions such as excessively long working hours, low wages, a high turnover rate, and a lack of social protection tend to be most pronounced in an informal economy. Additionally, shift work, night work, and temporary or part-time employment are common in tourism.

The industry may need to revisit some fundamentals to build a far more sustainable future: either make the industry more attractive to talent (and put conditions in place to retain staff for longer periods) or improve products, services, and processes so that they complement existing staffing needs or solve existing pain points.

One solution could be to build a workforce with the mix of digital and interpersonal skills needed to keep up with travelers’ fast-changing requirements. The industry could make the most of available technology to provide customers with a digitally enhanced experience, resolve staff shortages, and improve working conditions.

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Complementing concierges with chatbots.

The pace of technological change has redefined customer expectations. Technology-driven services are often at customers’ fingertips, with no queues or waiting times. By contrast, the airport and airline disruption widely reported in the press over the summer of 2022 points to customers not receiving this same level of digital innovation when traveling.

Imagine the following travel experience: it’s 2035 and you start your long-awaited honeymoon to a tropical island. A virtual tour operator and a destination travel specialist booked your trip for you; you connected via videoconference to make your plans. Your itinerary was chosen with the support of generative AI , which analyzed your preferences, recommended personalized travel packages, and made real-time adjustments based on your feedback.

Before leaving home, you check in online and QR code your luggage. You travel to the airport by self-driving cab. After dropping off your luggage at the self-service counter, you pass through security and the biometric check. You access the premier lounge with the QR code on the airline’s loyalty card and help yourself to a glass of wine and a sandwich. After your flight, a prebooked, self-driving cab takes you to the resort. No need to check in—that was completed online ahead of time (including picking your room and making sure that the hotel’s virtual concierge arranged for red roses and a bottle of champagne to be delivered).

While your luggage is brought to the room by a baggage robot, your personal digital concierge presents the honeymoon itinerary with all the requested bookings. For the romantic dinner on the first night, you order your food via the restaurant app on the table and settle the bill likewise. So far, you’ve had very little human interaction. But at dinner, the sommelier chats with you in person about the wine. The next day, your sightseeing is made easier by the hotel app and digital guide—and you don’t get lost! With the aid of holographic technology, the virtual tour guide brings historical figures to life and takes your sightseeing experience to a whole new level. Then, as arranged, a local citizen meets you and takes you to their home to enjoy a local family dinner. The trip is seamless, there are no holdups or snags.

This scenario features less human interaction than a traditional trip—but it flows smoothly due to the underlying technology. The human interactions that do take place are authentic, meaningful, and add a special touch to the experience. This may be a far-fetched example, but the essence of the scenario is clear: use technology to ease typical travel pain points such as queues, misunderstandings, or misinformation, and elevate the quality of human interaction.

Travel with less human interaction may be considered a disruptive idea, as many travelers rely on and enjoy the human connection, the “service with a smile.” This will always be the case, but perhaps the time is right to think about bringing a digital experience into the mix. The industry may not need to depend exclusively on human beings to serve its customers. Perhaps the future of travel is physical, but digitally enhanced (and with a smile!).

Digital solutions are on the rise and can help bridge the labor gap

Digital innovation is improving customer experience across multiple industries. Car-sharing apps have overcome service-counter waiting times and endless paperwork that travelers traditionally had to cope with when renting a car. The same applies to time-consuming hotel check-in, check-out, and payment processes that can annoy weary customers. These pain points can be removed. For instance, in China, the Huazhu Hotels Group installed self-check-in kiosks that enable guests to check in or out in under 30 seconds. 9 “Huazhu Group targets lifestyle market opportunities,” ChinaTravelNews, May 27, 2021.

Technology meets hospitality

In 2019, Alibaba opened its FlyZoo Hotel in Huangzhou, described as a “290-room ultra-modern boutique, where technology meets hospitality.” 1 “Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has a hotel run almost entirely by robots that can serve food and fetch toiletries—take a look inside,” Business Insider, October 21, 2019; “FlyZoo Hotel: The hotel of the future or just more technology hype?,” Hotel Technology News, March 2019. The hotel was the first of its kind that instead of relying on traditional check-in and key card processes, allowed guests to manage reservations and make payments entirely from a mobile app, to check-in using self-service kiosks, and enter their rooms using facial-recognition technology.

The hotel is run almost entirely by robots that serve food and fetch toiletries and other sundries as needed. Each guest room has a voice-activated smart assistant to help guests with a variety of tasks, from adjusting the temperature, lights, curtains, and the TV to playing music and answering simple questions about the hotel and surroundings.

The hotel was developed by the company’s online travel platform, Fliggy, in tandem with Alibaba’s AI Labs and Alibaba Cloud technology with the goal of “leveraging cutting-edge tech to help transform the hospitality industry, one that keeps the sector current with the digital era we’re living in,” according to the company.

Adoption of some digitally enhanced services was accelerated during the pandemic in the quest for safer, contactless solutions. During the Winter Olympics in Beijing, a restaurant designed to keep physical contact to a minimum used a track system on the ceiling to deliver meals directly from the kitchen to the table. 10 “This Beijing Winter Games restaurant uses ceiling-based tracks,” Trendhunter, January 26, 2022. Customers around the world have become familiar with restaurants using apps to display menus, take orders, and accept payment, as well as hotels using robots to deliver luggage and room service (see sidebar “Technology meets hospitality”). Similarly, theme parks, cinemas, stadiums, and concert halls are deploying digital solutions such as facial recognition to optimize entrance control. Shanghai Disneyland, for example, offers annual pass holders the option to choose facial recognition to facilitate park entry. 11 “Facial recognition park entry,” Shanghai Disney Resort website.

Automation and digitization can also free up staff from attending to repetitive functions that could be handled more efficiently via an app and instead reserve the human touch for roles where staff can add the most value. For instance, technology can help customer-facing staff to provide a more personalized service. By accessing data analytics, frontline staff can have guests’ details and preferences at their fingertips. A trainee can become an experienced concierge in a short time, with the help of technology.

Apps and in-room tech: Unused market potential

According to Skift Research calculations, total revenue generated by guest apps and in-room technology in 2019 was approximately $293 million, including proprietary apps by hotel brands as well as third-party vendors. 1 “Hotel tech benchmark: Guest-facing technology 2022,” Skift Research, November 2022. The relatively low market penetration rate of this kind of tech points to around $2.4 billion in untapped revenue potential (exhibit).

Even though guest-facing technology is available—the kind that can facilitate contactless interactions and offer travelers convenience and personalized service—the industry is only beginning to explore its potential. A report by Skift Research shows that the hotel industry, in particular, has not tapped into tech’s potential. Only 11 percent of hotels and 25 percent of hotel rooms worldwide are supported by a hotel app or use in-room technology, and only 3 percent of hotels offer keyless entry. 12 “Hotel tech benchmark: Guest-facing technology 2022,” Skift Research, November 2022. Of the five types of technology examined (guest apps and in-room tech; virtual concierge; guest messaging and chatbots; digital check-in and kiosks; and keyless entry), all have relatively low market-penetration rates (see sidebar “Apps and in-room tech: Unused market potential”).

While apps, digitization, and new technology may be the answer to offering better customer experience, there is also the possibility that tourism may face competition from technological advances, particularly virtual experiences. Museums, attractions, and historical sites can be made interactive and, in some cases, more lifelike, through AR/VR technology that can enhance the physical travel experience by reconstructing historical places or events.

Up until now, tourism, arguably, was one of a few sectors that could not easily be replaced by tech. It was not possible to replicate the physical experience of traveling to another place. With the emerging metaverse , this might change. Travelers could potentially enjoy an event or experience from their sofa without any logistical snags, and without the commitment to traveling to another country for any length of time. For example, Google offers virtual tours of the Pyramids of Meroë in Sudan via an immersive online experience available in a range of languages. 13 Mariam Khaled Dabboussi, “Step into the Meroë pyramids with Google,” Google, May 17, 2022. And a crypto banking group, The BCB Group, has created a metaverse city that includes representations of some of the most visited destinations in the world, such as the Great Wall of China and the Statue of Liberty. According to BCB, the total cost of flights, transfers, and entry for all these landmarks would come to $7,600—while a virtual trip would cost just over $2. 14 “What impact can the Metaverse have on the travel industry?,” Middle East Economy, July 29, 2022.

The metaverse holds potential for business travel, too—the meeting, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions (MICE) sector in particular. Participants could take part in activities in the same immersive space while connecting from anywhere, dramatically reducing travel, venue, catering, and other costs. 15 “ Tourism in the metaverse: Can travel go virtual? ,” McKinsey, May 4, 2023.

The allure and convenience of such digital experiences make offering seamless, customer-centric travel and tourism in the real world all the more pressing.

Three innovations to solve hotel staffing shortages

Is the future contactless.

Given the advances in technology, and the many digital innovations and applications that already exist, there is potential for businesses across the travel and tourism spectrum to cope with labor shortages while improving customer experience. Process automation and digitization can also add to process efficiency. Taken together, a combination of outsourcing, remote work, and digital solutions can help to retain existing staff and reduce dependency on roles that employers are struggling to fill (exhibit).

Depending on the customer service approach and direct contact need, we estimate that the travel and tourism industry would be able to cope with a structural labor shortage of around 10 to 15 percent in the long run by operating more flexibly and increasing digital and automated efficiency—while offering the remaining staff an improved total work package.

Outsourcing and remote work could also help resolve the labor shortage

While COVID-19 pushed organizations in a wide variety of sectors to embrace remote work, there are many hospitality roles that rely on direct physical services that cannot be performed remotely, such as laundry, cleaning, maintenance, and facility management. If faced with staff shortages, these roles could be outsourced to third-party professional service providers, and existing staff could be reskilled to take up new positions.

In McKinsey’s experience, the total service cost of this type of work in a typical hotel can make up 10 percent of total operating costs. Most often, these roles are not guest facing. A professional and digital-based solution might become an integrated part of a third-party service for hotels looking to outsource this type of work.

One of the lessons learned in the aftermath of COVID-19 is that many tourism employees moved to similar positions in other sectors because they were disillusioned by working conditions in the industry . Specialist multisector companies have been able to shuffle their staff away from tourism to other sectors that offer steady employment or more regular working hours compared with the long hours and seasonal nature of work in tourism.

The remaining travel and tourism staff may be looking for more flexibility or the option to work from home. This can be an effective solution for retaining employees. For example, a travel agent with specific destination expertise could work from home or be consulted on an needs basis.

In instances where remote work or outsourcing is not viable, there are other solutions that the hospitality industry can explore to improve operational effectiveness as well as employee satisfaction. A more agile staffing model  can better match available labor with peaks and troughs in daily, or even hourly, demand. This could involve combining similar roles or cross-training staff so that they can switch roles. Redesigned roles could potentially improve employee satisfaction by empowering staff to explore new career paths within the hotel’s operations. Combined roles build skills across disciplines—for example, supporting a housekeeper to train and become proficient in other maintenance areas, or a front-desk associate to build managerial skills.

Where management or ownership is shared across properties, roles could be staffed to cover a network of sites, rather than individual hotels. By applying a combination of these approaches, hotels could reduce the number of staff hours needed to keep operations running at the same standard. 16 “ Three innovations to solve hotel staffing shortages ,” McKinsey, April 3, 2023.

Taken together, operational adjustments combined with greater use of technology could provide the tourism industry with a way of overcoming staffing challenges and giving customers the seamless digitally enhanced experiences they expect in other aspects of daily life.

In an industry facing a labor shortage, there are opportunities for tech innovations that can help travel and tourism businesses do more with less, while ensuring that remaining staff are engaged and motivated to stay in the industry. For travelers, this could mean fewer friendly faces, but more meaningful experiences and interactions.

Urs Binggeli is a senior expert in McKinsey’s Zurich office, Zi Chen is a capabilities and insights specialist in the Shanghai office, Steffen Köpke is a capabilities and insights expert in the Düsseldorf office, and Jackey Yu is a partner in the Hong Kong office.

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10 of the best companies to work for in hospitality

If you’re looking for a hospitality career ,  it’s understandable you would want to work for the best in the business. Finding the top employers in the hospitality industry can increase job satisfaction, provide amazing opportunities and help accelerate your career growth and development. This makes it vital to know which are the most prestigious companies to work for in the hospitality sector.

In this article, we’ll look at some of the best companies in hospitality as well as what it means to be the best. We’ll also go over how you can prepare to approach the top companies to work for in hospitality and how making shrewd choices can boost your career.

What is the hospitality industry?

The hospitality industry is all about making people feel welcome, comfortable and even pampered. The industry encompasses businesses such as hotels, resorts, restaurants and spas. There is a lot of crossover between the travel and tourism industry. While many people initially think of just front-of-house staff and housekeepers when thinking about jobs in hospitality, many great roles in hospitality management can  offer exciting and rewarding careers.

Why is the hospitality industry a great place to work?

The hospitality industry can be a wonderful field to work in if you want to help guests and customers have a great experience. It’s also a fast-paced working environment with opportunities to learn and plenty of variety. There are ample avenues for growth and advancement in hospitality positions, making it an exciting career choice. You’ll also have the chance to work just about anywhere in the world thanks to a huge range of hotels and resorts in different locations.

Criteria for identifying the best companies to work for in hospitality

To identify high-paying jobs in hospitality companies and top hotel brands , it’s important to have criteria to help you evaluate them. Some of the main ones we will use for nominating the best companies to work for are:

• Company culture
• Employee satisfaction
• Salary ranges
• Employee benefits
• Growth opportunities, including further training, promotion opportunities and networking
• Company reputation 

You might feel some of these factors are more important to you than others. For example, you might be more focused on companies that can help with your career development in the hospitality industry than on salary, but all of these ingredients are important when it comes to deciding the top companies to work for.

What are some common characteristics of the best companies to work for in hospitality?

Common characteristics in the top hospitality companies include:

• Comprehensive benefits
• Willingness to listen to staff concerns
• Further training opportunities
• Options for advancement within the company
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion
• Competitive salaries
• Good workplace culture
• A wide range of locations throughout the world

List of the top 10 best companies to work for in hospitality

If you’re looking for prestigious employers in the hospitality field, here is our list of top companies to work for.

1. The Ritz-Carlton

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company operates a chain of luxury hotels in more than 30 countries. They are consistently ranked as one of the top companies to work for in hospitality thanks to competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits and excellent opportunities for advancement into hotel management   roles.

2. Apple Leisure Group

Apple Leisure Group focuses on resorts and packaged travel options in North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. The group is often praised for its fast expansion, which generates more options for advancement within the company. They also offer a range of benefits to their staff.

3. Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts

This is another luxury hotel chain where you could focus on hotel management or luxury brand management . Four Seasons is known to focus on employee satisfaction through generous benefits. For example, the company offers good health insurance, paid parental leave and tuition reimbursement to help their staff earn advanced hotel management degrees .

4. Hilton Worldwide

Hilton is one of the largest and most well-known hotel chains in the world. There are many career opportunities with Hilton, including managing hotels and resorts, making it a good company to learn how to manage a hotel  on the job through experience and additional study. Hilton is also well-known for positive diversity and inclusion as well as offering good salaries.

5. Marriott International

Marriott has properties in more than 130 countries worldwide, so it offers many locations in which you could work. Marriott is also known for its robust training programs, which can lead to good advancement opportunities at the company.

6. InterContinental Hotel Groups (IHG)

InterContinental runs 5,000+ hotels in more than 100 countries, again giving you a lot of options for locations to work in. The company emphasizes employee development and is known for offering competitive pay and benefits to its staff.

Accor is headquartered in France but operates in 95 different countries. It’s the largest hotel operator in Europe, giving you plenty of options for advancement and progression.

8. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts

Wyndham is one of the largest global hotel chains, with more than 9,000 properties in their portfolio. One of the big draws for people who want to work at Wyndham is its family-friendly workplace culture as well as the competitive salary and benefits.

9. Choice Hotels International

Choice Hotels has a thriving portfolio of more than 6,000 properties, so there are plenty of options for management roles. As well as being famed for its focus on customer service, the company is also known to offer tempting salaries and benefits.

10. Hyatt Hotels Corporation

Hyatt may be a slightly smaller company, with only 700 properties, but it’s well known for its focus on employee well-being and a sophisticated view of work culture. It’s regarded as one of the top companies to work for in hospitality.

Opportunities for advancement in the hospitality industry

If you work hard and focus on advancing your career, there are various ways you can get ahead in the hospitality industry. Whether you’re working in hotel or resort management , you can specialize in different fields such as revenue management, marketing management or operations management. There are several qualifications you can obtain to help you get into these fields. With more experience, you can open up new career options and look at becoming a hotel general manager  or chain manager, overseeing all the different departments of a hotel or multiple venues.

Skills and experience needed to work in hospitality

If you want to work for a well-respected hospitality employer, you will need to build skills such as:

• Communication
• Problem solving
• Decision making
• Time management
• Team management

You’ll also need to make sure you have experience in the hospitality industry. You can either get this by working in lower-level roles in hotels and other hospitality areas or you could find a degree course that offers hospitality internships  where you would get practical experience working in management roles.

Combining intensive skill development and essential real-world experience, our diploma provides the foundation for achieving success and making an impact.

Strategies for landing a job with a top hospitality company

To aim for jobs with the top companies to work for in hospitality and the travel industry, you should think about the following:

• Learn: study hospitality and tourism  to get a respected degree that will propel you into great roles
• Network: meet people in the hospitality industry. Develop genuine connections with people who might be able to assist you in landing sought-after jobs
• Get experience: with practical skills in different hospitality roles, you’ll offer more value to employers
• Research: find out as much as you can about the companies you want to work for

Choosing the right hospitality school for your ambitions

Getting the right hospitality degree  means choosing the right school. You should find a school with a good reputation in the industry that partners with good hospitality companies for internships.

Respected degrees from our prestigious institution not only deliver expert teaching and excellent professional placements, they are also guarantees of knowledge and competence.

The hospitality industry is enormous and there are many companies you could work for as a hotel manager, resort manager or manager of a specific department. There are different metrics to evaluate each hotel or travel management company, such as salary, opportunities for advancement and employee engagement. Selecting the right company is vital for hospitality industry job satisfaction as well as for developing your career and any of the companies we’ve listed offer tempting opportunities to grow and learn. But there is no better start to a rewarding hospitality management  career than a degree from a prestigious hospitality school.

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Following the understandable decline in the travel and tourism industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, the industry has since experienced impressive growth and is expected to grow to a huge $854.7 billion worldwide by the end of 2023.

If you are looking to work in a hotel, this growth gives you plenty of opportunities to find your perfect job.

Regardless of whether you are experienced in the hotel industry or a hotel newbie, the hotel business is bursting with opportunities to suit your skills and aspirations.

However, with so many well-known companies operating in the travel and tourism industry, it can be difficult to decide which positions to apply for.

7 Best-Paying Hotel Companies to Work for 2024

Here’s a list of the top hospitality companies to work for:

1. Hilton Hotels and Resorts

Hotel rank: 2nd in the world

Company size by employees: 160,000 peoples

Why it’s a great place to work:

Last year, the leading hotel brands in the world were ranked according to their value. With a value of $12 billion, it comes as no surprise that the Hilton was ranked as the highest-value hotel in the world. Additionally, Hilton Hotels and Resorts was named the second best company to work for by Fortune and Great Places to Work.

With more than 159,000 employees and 7,000 hotels in 122 countries, the Hilton has something for every employee.

Whether you want to work at the corporate headquarters in Virginia, USA, manage a Hilton hotel in London or Singapore, or look after the high-end guests in Bora Bora, your perfect job could be just around the corner.

Another great reason to work for Hilton Hotels is that they make an effort to invest in their staff. This means that even if you are not experienced in the hospitality industry, with Hilton Hotels, you can start at the bottom and work your way up. Hilton Hotels also offers great benefits, including a retirement program and a stock purchase plan.

2. Hyatt Hotels

Company size by employees: 45,000 employees in USA

Hyatt was voted in the Top 5 Hospitality Employers in 2022 and 76th overall by Fortune . Indeed, they refer to their employees as the ‘Hyatt family’. To back up their claim of being a family, 21% of all Hyatt employees have been with the company for 16 years or more.

Hyatt has more than 45,000 employees in the US alone and more than 1,350 hotels around the world. They support 10% of all jobs in the travel and tourism industry worldwide.

Hyatt is one of the best hospitality companies to work for if you are young. Hyatt created their RiseHY program to help young people build life-long careers in the hotel business.

Regardless of your job role, you are likely to feel appreciated at the Hyatt.  90% of Hyatt employees said that they felt valued, regardless of their position in the company .

3. Marriott International

Company size by employees: 140,000 people

Many people don’t realize that Marriott is the largest hotel chain in the world and employs over 140,000 people. They have more than 8,500 Marriott hotels in 138 countries. Marriott International is worth more than $60 billion.

In 2022, Marriott was voted in the Top 20 for Best Workplaces for Parents and Best Workplaces for Women . 92% of surveyed employees stated that Marriott International is a ‘great place to work’, compared to the average of 57% in typical companies.

Marriott employees receive generous discounts at their hotels all over the world, plus discounts on food, beverages, and spa treatments.

Marriott has specialized career programs if you are a student, a graduate, or a veteran. Another great benefit is their savings program for retirement. Marriott is also making changes to create a more inclusive and diverse workforce.

4. The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company

Company size by employees: 40,000 people

The Ritz-Carlton brand is owned by Marriott International. However, because the brand is recognized internationally on its own merit and the hallmarks of the Ritz-Carlton hotels are so different from those of the Marriott, we are including them separately on our list.

There are more than a hundred Ritz-Carlton hotels all over the world, and they employ over 40,000 people. They heavily focus on the luxury market, with luxurious interiors and lavish hotel rooms.

The Ritz-Carlton is a popular choice for women looking to work in the hotel industry. They are frequently recognized as offering equal opportunities to both male and female employees (in terms of promotions, leadership roles, and salary increases).

The Ritz-Carlton also offers great management opportunities. They also offer part-time management roles, perfect for those with family commitments.

If you are new to the hotel world, the Ritz-Carlton is a great choice. They provide their employees with learning opportunities, such as skills training, sponsorship, and mentorship programs.

5. Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts

Company size by employees: 45,000 people

The Four Seasons is one of the most well-known hotel chains. You’ve probably seen the Four Seasons in a movie or TV show.

Although they are renowned as a luxury hotel brand in North America, they actually have more than 120 properties in 47 countries around the world.

The Four Seasons has hotels in popular destinations, including the Maldives, Hawaii, and New York, and employs over 45,000 people.

If you are considering a job at The Four Seasons, you couldn’t have chosen a better time to start your career with them. As well as the existing hotels and resorts, The Four Seasons currently has more than 50 projects under planning or development.

Whether you want to work at the corporate headquarters in Toronto, get involved with opening a new Four Seasons resort, or work at one of their established properties, The Four Seasons has great options for everyone.

6. IHG Hotels and Resorts

Company size by employees: 325,000 people

Our only British-based company on the list is IHG Hotels and Resorts. IHG has more than 6,200 hotels all over the world.

Even if you don’t recognize IHG themselves, you may recognize the 18 hotel brands that IHG owns, including Six Senses Hotels, Regent Hotels, Intercontinental, Iberostar, Crowne Plaza, and Holiday Inn .

IHG also has an additional 1,900 hotels and resorts being planned and developed in 2023, making now a great time to begin your career with this company.

IHG also offers their staff learning and development programs and access to hundreds of online courses, employing over 325,000 individuals.

IHG also offers some great benefits, including paid annual leave, bonuses, colleague recognition programs, pension plans, saving plans, flexible working arrangements, family and friend discounts, and a well-being program.

7. Wyndham Hotels and Resorts

Company size by employees: 8,000 people

Wyndham Hotels and Resorts is one of the biggest hotel franchisors in the world. They have more than 9,000 hotels in 95 countries. Wyndham is the parent company of 20 well-known hotel brands.

This includes Baymont, Days Inn, La Quinta, Caesars Resorts, and Travelodge, and employs 8,000 people.

Wyndham offers many different benefits, including parental leave, commuter benefits, staff appreciation days, and hotel discounts. Wyndham also offers other staff benefits, including coaching and mentoring programs. This is great for those who want to further their careers.

Final Thoughts

No matter which of these seven great hotel companies you choose, working in a hotel can be rewarding in many ways.

Working in a hotel can be both personally and professionally rewarding. Not only will you have the opportunity to succeed at work, but you can also do a job you love.

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Some Frequently Asked Questions:

Why is Hilton the best company to work for?

Hilton Hotels invests in its staff, allowing newcomers to rise through the ranks. They also provide excellent benefits, including a retirement program and stock purchase plan.

Is it better to work for Hilton or Marriott?

This is dependent on personal preference, but if you would rather work at a place with more hotels globally, the Marriott is the hotel for you. The Hilton, though, highly invests in employee growth, and the Marriott is dedicated to providing specialized programs. Depending on what you want to gain from your work experience, the Hilton might be a good option as well.

Which hotel gives the best salary?

Marriott and Hyatt are among the highest-paying hotels in the world.

Do Hilton hotel employees get free rooms?

Around the world, Hilton employees get discounted hotel rooms.

What jobs can you do in hotels?

Each hotel listed above has a huge variety of job opportunities for people with different experiences, interests, qualifications, and aspirations. For example, you could work as a hotel receptionist, a concierge, a porter, a room attendant, a chef, a director of purchasing, an event planner, or a maintenance worker. Alternatively, you could work in the head office or focus on the administrative side of hotels. If you are interested in management roles, a bachelor degree in hotel management is a great pathway into hospitality management. This is particularly true for people looking to enter the industry or upskill themselves.

Dipayan Mondal

Dipayan is the author of this blog. He completed his hotel management degree from GNIHM, Kolkata. And he is very passionate about the hospitality industry. And right now, he is working as a successful hotelier in a 5-star hotel.

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Carnival Corporation Named as One of America’s Best Employers for Diversity

• April 26, 2024

Carnival Corporation was named one of America’s Best Employers for Diversity for 2024 by Forbes, according to a press release.

Of the top 500 companies listed across 24 industries, Carnival Corporation ranked first in the travel and leisure industry.

America’s Best Employers for Diversity included an independent survey of over 170,000 U.S.-based employees working for companies with at least 1,000 people. Respondents were asked to review their employers based on statements regarding age, gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQIA+ and general diversity in their workplace. They were also given the chance to evaluate other employers in their industries.

“We are a better company when the diversity of race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, culture, beliefs and other backgrounds are celebrated,” said Bettina Deynes, global chief human resources officer for Carnival Corporation. “We strive to be the travel and leisure industry’s employer of choice by providing our team members with an inclusive and supportive company culture and work environment, and we’re honored to see our efforts recognized among others who share in our commitment.”

Previously, Carnival Corporation was named by Forbes as one of the World’s Best Employers for 2023 and one of the Best Companies for Latinos by Latino Leaders Magazine in 2022. The company also earned a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2023-24 Corporate Equality Index, making the company the Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality for the seventh consecutive year.

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The complete toolkit for selling travel online. Most of the world’s travel technology was built in a bygone era. Travel companies today need tools that are flexible enough to mould to customer expectations and powerful enough to support a growing business. Layer by layer, piece by piece, we’re rebuilding the infrastructure that underpins the travel industry to bring it into the modern era and usher in a new, effortless travel experience. We’re backed by Benchmark, Blossom, Index Ventures, Kima Ventures, and Y Combinator (S18)

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Bucket Listers is a new way to find fun! Our goal is to inspire people to live their lives to the fullest. We're passionate about spreading positivity and providing inspiration for people to get offline, outside and experiencing the world together. Our loyal community of explorers turns to us to discover and book inspiring experiences.

The difference is hospitality — a practice that drives everything we do and inspires the way we work. As the hospitality team on both sides of every vacation rental stay, joining us means you can help turn every trip booked into lasting memories for guests and seamless experiences for owners. And you can do it working fully remote, in our Denver office, or a mix of both.

Revinators are everywhere, pursuing their passions, laughing, caring, arguing too, at times. It is hard to forget a Revinator when you have met one. Mountain bikers, surfers, sunflower plant nurturers, golfers in California, Oregon, London, Singapore, Amsterdam, Bali. What ties us together then? Energy. And a determination that we can transform the hospitality industry - beyond what we have already done. We don’t just believe that, we have demonstrated that already. Come in, look closer and you will see what we mean. We are here to show hoteliers that when they access the data they own and leverage it to drive deeper connections with their guests, they are going to drive direct revenue in spades. We have the skill to wield the technology to deliver results. Want to understand that better? See what’s cooking under the hood? Or maybe you need a slice of our energy? Connect with us. We are looking for more Revinators to join us. Want more details right here, right now? Here are some numbers then. --> 480. The number of people around the world who will answer “Yes!” if you asked, “Any Revinators here?” --> 4. We have global offices in California, Oregon, Amsterdam and Singapore. And we support people working remotely. --> $100M. We are going to walk past that annual revenue figure soon. Watch us (or join us maybe). And we are profitable too. We’d tell you about all the awards we won but we lost count. Awards like 4 X Top Place to Work. 4 x #1 CRM/Marketing product from Hotel Tech Report.

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SevenRooms is a guest experience and retention platform for hospitality operators that enables them to build more profitable direct relationships, deliver exceptional experiences, and increase repeat business. Founded in 2011 and venture-backed by Amazon, Comcast Ventures, Highgate Ventures and Providence Strategic Growth, SevenRooms has dining, hotel F&B, nightlife and entertainment clients in 250+ cities globally.

Our story started by wanting to solve a problem. Founded in 2015, Campspot was created to bring a modern booking experience to the camping industry. At that time, nearly half the campgrounds in the US were not taking reservations online and we believed we could help more people experience the great outdoors if we brought a modern solution to this problem. It was this same problem-solving spirit that drove us to launch the Campspot Marketplace in the winter of 2020, which has helped thousands of campers research and instantly book from over 130,000 campsites and counting. Oh, and we believe we’re just getting started.

TROOP is on a mission to reinvent meeting planning, taking what is an inefficient, drawn out and laborious process today and making it simple and quick for anyone to organise a meeting. Workforces are now distributed, no longer office based everyday meaning that yesterday's commuter has become tomorrow's business traveller. Meeting in person is now much rarer as we managed without it for so long so it is much harder to justify although the activity is more valuable than ever because we have been separated. Having up to date data to make the right decision on whether to meet in person, virtually or in a hybrid format is a must have for companies of any size however this has not been available to access dynamically from a single source until now the TROOP. In the past people relied on their personal opinions and experience of travel however all this has changed with covid. Flight schedules are decimated, pricing changes rapidly, as do the travel restrictions and in some cases so does the risk of travelling to certain countries. TROOP is the single source of truth and powers these decisions for global organisation across multiple industries by providing all the data required to make the best decision on how to meet, be it Covid related restrictions, costs of travel and accommodations, the environmental impact or the travel experience such as needing a visa or taking a stopover flight.

Uniquely positioned at the intersection of fintech and hospitality, Selfbook transforms hotel bookings and payments from the inside out. Working in tandem with hotels’ existing technology systems, Selfbook enhances what matters most to hotels, including direct bookings, payments, and security. Built by a team of creative technologists and avid travelers, our products provide a refreshingly effortless user experience for guests and hoteliers alike. Selfbook is committed to empowering hotels worldwide with modern e-commerce solutions tailor-made for our industry.

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Backed by over 15 years of experience in experiential education and the travel industry, BACK&PACK creates unique, self-guided trips for independently-minded travelers ages 18 to 30-something. BACK&PACK was founded by adventurous spirits with a singular focus: to make independent travel experiences more responsible, intentional, authentic, challenging, and affordable.

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The 38 Best Travel Jobs to Work and Travel the World

Whether you’re a backpacker, digital nomad or expat, you can earn a decent income with one of the best travel jobs that’ll allow you to work and travel!

You’re spending your day gazing longingly out of your office window, wishing you could work and travel. The only breeze you’ve got is coming from the fan collecting dust on your desk. But you’re imagining yourself somewhere like Turkey’s pebbled coastline. Perhaps the ancient city of Olympos, where the Mediterranean washes up Roman ruins on either side of the river valley that’s, with a breeze, swept back into the sea.

You snap out of it and find yourself back in your cubicle in some high rise in corporate America. But you start wondering about all the T-shirt-clad pedestrians strolling the streets outside your window. It’s not lunch hour, but some are jogging, some are reading on benches and others are loading their luggage into the back of taxis. Don’t they have jobs?

Envy consumes you.

You imagine kicking back the computer chair that kills your back anyway. After all, others seem to have figured out how to ditch the cubicle life. But how could you ever afford to travel as a lifestyle?

Before you digress and carry on to tackling your flooded email inbox, consider this: You could make money while traversing the globe with different travel jobs.

Depending on the type of traveler you are (and there are several!), there are indeed job opportunities that’ll either allow you to travel or actually pay you to travel. Though some are better suited than others for your traveling modus operandi.

The Different Types of Travelers

Despite the all-encompassing term, “world traveler,” there are different types of travelers. If we were all the same, I’d have spent a lot more pesos at bougie resorts in Mexico.

But we’re not all the same traveler. The most “all-inclusive” that entices a backpacker is a comped hostel breakfast. And a digital nomad might splurge a little more for that free WiFi, too. The expat? They’re whipping up their own Eggs Florentine.

Backpackers Are Budget Travelers

You can usually spot a backpacker walking down the street to the nearest hostel, waiting at the bus stop or relaxing in a city square dressed in, let’s say, well-loved clothes. Your trusty travel backpack is either slung over your shoulders or you’re using it as an impromptu bench.

If you’re a backpacker, you probably boast the “go anywhere, try anything” mindset and are tied neither to your computer nor to stable internet. You can (and often do) travel off the grid for days, weeks or even months on end, and you don’t mind taking odd travel jobs just to scrape together the cash to keep traveling.

Digital Nomads Can Work From Anywhere

If you’re a digital nomad, you are the folk who can travel just about anywhere—so long as you have a decent WiFi connection. It doesn’t matter what you do online: create video, write code or create logos, the main thing is that you have the freedom to travel the world. You are consistently on the hunt for new experiences and adventures, but you count your laptop as an essential piece of travel gear .

If you have an internet connection, then you’re online earning an income one way or another. Your jobs will be on the internet, meaning you have the pleasure of being entirely location independent , calling any coffee bar and WiFi-enabled beach or city park their office.

Expats Live Abroad

Short for expatriate , you’re an expat if you live long-term in a country different than that of your citizenship—sometimes months, other times years. You may not bounce from country to country as often as backpackers or digital nomads but, as long as you’re living outside your native land, you are still traveling.

Due to your moderately stationary lifestyle, the work available to you is equally long-term in most cases. The travel jobs most appealing to you are going to be long-term positions, much like you might find back home. The only difference is that you’re living in a completely different country!

The best part is that there are plenty of ways to work abroad without experience !

The Best Travel Jobs for Backpackers to Work and Travel

Contrary to popular belief, you can both work and travel. And there are tons of different ways to do it! If you’re a backpacker looking for job opportunities, try one of these travel jobs for backpackers or check out these work abroad programs around the world.

Hostels, hotels, resorts, cruise ships, restaurants—they’re always looking for bartenders. That’s where you come in. If you have a little bit of experience, or even if you are just willing to learn, there’s a good chance you can find a bar somewhere that’s looking for a hand.

These jobs generally pay fairly nicely and you often get tips to boot. In some cases, a bed at the hostel where you’re bartending can also be part of the deal. Just ask around at local bars and hostels for a gig.

Bartending is also a great gig for you expats. For more information, check out this article on becoming a traveling bartender and how to find a bartending job anywhere in the world.

Typical Pay: $10-$50 per hour, depending on tips

Scuba Instructor or Dive Master

Scuba diving is a much-loved and growing activity all over the world. And it’s easier than you think to be a part of it if you want to call the ocean your office.

Most dive centers in the world offer courses to bring your diving certification up to Divemaster, which is considered an “instructor in training.” Once you’re there, you can potentially land a diving gig at any number of beautiful tropical beaches or islands. Be warned, however. This is not a cheap endeavor, but skilled diving instructors are in demand and can earn thousands a month.

Again, scuba diving is also a fun job for you expats.

Typical Pay: $1,000-$4,000 per month

Yacht Worker

Want to sail the high seas and get paid at the same time? Then consider working on a yacht for a season or two. These travel jobs are generally entry-level and require a simple short course before departure.

That said, they can pay very well, and because yacht traffic tends to follow the seasons around the globe, you’re likely to find a ship looking for help any time of year. If you have a meticulous eye for detail and a fair amount of patience, check out job postings on sites like Crew Network .

Typical Pay: $2,000-$4,000 per month

Cruise Ship Worker

Similar to working on a private yacht to see the world, consider jumping on board as a cruise ship worker. These vessels generally have jobs for just about anyone, from housekeeping and reception to engineering and more.

Therefore, you’re more than likely to find a spot to suit your talents. While these jobs generally consume a lot of hours aboard the ship, your lodging, food and travel costs to new countries are all covered for your efforts.

Try visiting individual cruise lines’ websites in order to look for job availability, look at staffing agencies that focus on the cruise line industry or check out job board sites like All Cruise Jobs .

Typical Pay: $2,000-$5,500 per month

Party Promoter

Hostels and party-focused tour companies around the world are always looking for fun-loving individuals to help promote their events and festivals. And landing a job as a party promoter is a fantastic way to dive into a new city.

These jobs often focus on social media campaigns or other ways of hyping up the event. You’re usually required to go along to the party or event to make sure everyone is enjoying themselves!

Typical Pay: Food and lodging only up to around $1,000/month

Flight Attendant

Now nobody is saying that it’s easy, but the long hours and tough training that a flight attendant endures pays off with travel to a swatch of different locations. Plus, you’ll get killer discounts on hotels and airline tickets.

The travel is usually company specific, along with a universal CPR certification, but once it’s all over, you’ve got one of the hallmark travel jobs all lined up. Honestly, a job as a flight attendant is one of the best jobs there is! If I had to pick my dream job, a flight attendant would be it. Not to mention, health insurance is included!

Typical Pay: $3,000-$4,000 per month

Busker or Street Performer

If you can’t imagine traveling without your instrument, as long as it’s not a tuba, then you should try your hand at street performing. Granted the income may just be a trickle from time to time, but it can pay for the occasional bus or train ticket to keep you on the move.

Be patient as you break into this job, develop your schtick, and learn the tricks of the trade to really start earning a profit.

Typical Pay: $10-$200 per hour

Yoga Teacher

Yoga has been growing in popularity around the world for years, and the need for teachers has increased right along with it. Everywhere from hostels to campgrounds to yachts have started adding yoga classes to their schedules.

Simply pick a location you’d like to visit and travel around, then start tracking down locations that offer yoga retreats which might benefit from having a yoga instructor on hand. It’ll help if you’re certified, of course.

Like bartending and scuba diving, many other expats like you have become yoga teachers, too.

Typical Pay: Volunteer-$100 per hour

Festival Worker

Summer music festivals hire for just about every job imaginable to keep the show running. They need everything from side performers to food stall attendants to cleaning staff members.

A festival worker is one of those excellent short-term travel jobs that allows you to work hard for a few days, collect some cash, and get back on the road! As an added benefit, the difference between summer seasons in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres allows you to move from festival to festival across world for almost the entire year.

Just scope out openings on sites like Hot Box Events .

Typical Pay: $10-$20 per hour

Ski Resort Staffer

Snowboard and ski lodges on every mountain in the world are looking for seasonal staff to get them through the busy months. You could work in hospitality, as a housekeeper, as part of the kitchen staff, as a snow groomer, as a ski or snowboard instructor or behind the desk at the rental counter.

And the icing on the cake? You can ski to your heart’s content in your off time. This is the perfect way to spend a season doing what you love and earning some cash for your spring travels at the same time.

Typical Pay: $10-$30 per hour

Hostel Staffer

Hostels are generally looking for an extra hand with their day to day operations, especially during their high season. It’s not difficult to work out a deal for joining their team for a short time.

These travel jobs typically focus on cleaning or food prep, but your lodging at the hostel is included, as well as one or two meals a day in most cases. The work can be tough, but hostels are naturally close to some of the best sights a country has to offer, making them the perfect bases for you to go out and explore.

Find hostel jobs on sites like Hostel Jobs .

Typical Pay: Volunteer – $15 per hour for more skilled worked

While WWOOFing jobs won’t add to your bank account, they do provide free food and lodging, which can be absolute gold when you’re on the road for an extended period of time.

As a volunteer, you’ll connect with different families and organizations that are looking for help. WWOOF focuses solely on organic farming, which means you’ll get to work on your green thumb and get some solid traveling under your belt at the same time.

Look for these gigs on WWOOF .

Typical Pay: Volunteer

Housesitter

Another little-known possibility that’s been growing in popularity amongst travel jobs is the coveted house-sitting gig. All you have to do is look after a person’s house and (oftentimes) pets while they’re away. In exchange, you get to live at the house for that entire time on your own, which means that you have the perfect place from which to explore the surrounding area in your free time.

These jobs can be a little tricky to land when you first start looking, but once you have a few on your resume, it’ll become a much easier to earn new homeowners’ trust.

While these jobs seldom pay, having your own house in a new country for a short time is often payment enough. Just look for jobs on sites like Trusted Housesitters .

Construction Worker

There are construction projects around every corner—home renovations or expansions, hotel and hostel construction or renovations, office expansions, etc. Often, these projects are in desperate need of people with some construction, plumbing or electrical experience, and they are often willing to set up a short-term job for you while you’re in the area.

One of the best methods of breaking into this type of job as you travel the world is to simply volunteer for a few projects via sites like Workaway or HelpX to build up your experience and knowledge base. Once you have a decent resume, you can start finding paid travel jobs.

Many other expats like you also work in construction, too.

Typical Pay: Varies widely depending on skill, entry-level is volunteer

Backpacking Guide

For you diehard hikers, this one is right up your alley. Companies in every national park and beautiful wilderness in the world need guides to lead day-trips and multi-day trips during the peak seasons every year.

The basic qualifications are generally a Wilderness First Responder certification and a little bit of experience. If you don’t have experience, however, it’s generally no problem. Look for NGOs, camps and startups that need  volunteers to assist guides or educators, and break into the industry from there.

The working seasons for this industry are generally very intense with back-to-back-to-back trips, but in the offseason, you can travel at will.

Typical Pay: $15-$25 per hour

The Best Travel Jobs for Digital Nomads to Work and Travel

If you want to travel and work from your laptop, one of these options is going to be your best bet. For more info, click here to find out more on how to become a digital nomad .

Online English Teacher

If you have a stable internet connection, you can almost certainly find a job teaching English online. These most often take the form of teaching through some web-based video conferencing and generally require a college degree or TEFL certification.

Sometimes the lessons will be one on one; other times you’ll be working with an entire class. Naturally, patience and organization go hand-in-hand with this opportunity, but if you’re up to it and have the time to commit to regular lessons, then you can earn a regular paycheck.

Typical Pay: $10-$25 hourly

Travel from country to country and adventure to adventure, blogging about your passion—and earn an income! But like all worthwhile endeavors, it’s hardly a simple affair. Starting a successful blog and formidable following can often take years.

But if you have something you are absolutely passionate about (it doesn’t even have to be traveling) then you can make a blog about it. Think: car blogs, hiking blogs, home crafts blogs, cooking blogs, career advice blogs—the list is endless!

Typical Pay: $100-$10,000 per month

Freelance Photographer

One of the perks of the wandering lifestyle is that we see sights and wonders that the vast majority of the population will never visit. But they still love to see pictures.

That’s where the freelance traveling photography niche comes in. If you’re an absolute killer behind a camera, look at creating an online presence to start selling your photographs for magazines and websites.

Or you could focus on social media and develop a strong following, which could also lead to an income in the future.

Typical Pay: $500+ per month

Freelance Travel Writer or Editor

Now, this is one of those dream jobs that most folks out there dream of snagging. The freelance writer has the freedom to work on any number of projects, from book writing and blog content, to proofreading websites. And all they need is a laptop.

There are several online platforms out there to connect writers with potential clients, such as Upwork, and these jobs can pay either hourly or by the project. If you have a knack for writing, this could be your ticket to travel.

Typical Pay: $30-$400 per article

Website or Graphic Designer

Just as potential clients are always looking for writers, they are also always on the lookout for people to develop websites or brochures for their businesses.

Some online courses may be all you need to get started on the road to web development; after that, all you need to do is hunt down some work! Websites such as Upwork also work very well for connecting with potential clients online, and as long as you have internet, you have a job.

Typical Pay: $1,000+ per month

Computer Programmer

If you have some skill in cooking up lines of code, that could be all you need to get traveling. New app developers, inventors and website developers all occasionally need some code written or tweaked to smooth out their product.

If your skill needs a little dusting off or you’re still learning, there are dozens of online courses out there on sites like Udemy or CodeAcademy .

Typical Pay: $3,000-$10,000 per month

Stock Day Trader

If you have a banker’s mind and the stock market holds few secrets for you, then day trading may be all you need to earn some income for your travels.

A little past experience and a starting amount to invest are both prerequisites for this option, but if you have the patience and time (sometimes years) to develop your portfolio, it can certainly pay off. Just remember that this option sometimes involves losing a bit of money as you learn the ropes or pay for some beginner’s classes.

Typical Pay: $1,000-$3,000 per month, though sometimes more depending on skill

Online Translator

With two or more languages under your belt, you have a very easy avenue to earn a little extra income for your travels. Looking into translating. Websites, business materials and instruction manuals need to be translated on a regular basis, and companies tend to offer fairly decent payments.

Freelancing websites such as Upwork offer these types of job opportunities.

Typical Pay: $20-$50 per hour

Dropshipper

Dropshipping is a shortcut method to break into the world of online retail without having to worry about maintaining a storefront or warehouses full of stock. Essentially, you find a product in a foreign country for which to act as a third-party salesman.

You can market the product through different online retail websites, such as Amazon, and simply arrange to ship the product to the customer directly after they’ve made a purchase. This means that you, as the retailer, never actually handle the product. With a fair amount of research and work, you can make some serious money by running a competitive and attractive dropshipping business.

Online Poker Player

It may sound like a huge risk, but for those of you with an acumen for numbers and cards, becoming a professional poker player could be a reality. It’s certainly not uncommon for backpackers to make enough from the online poker world to finance their travels, and maybe even turn a profit in the long run.

However, you have to be extremely patient and have a plan for how much money you are willing to risk along with how much money you need to win in order to maintain your traveling lifestyle.

Typical Pay: How good are you?

Virtual Assistant

Many folks in a business setting—from the bigwigs at the top to the busy entrepreneurs—are learning to reap the benefits of a virtual assistant. The job is essentially managing your employer’s schedule, from meetings to business travel, along with some correspondence, making calls when necessary, setting up meetings, managing social media… you get the idea.

As a virtual assistant, you’ll have the freedom to work remotely from just about anywhere in the world, making this one of the most ideal jobs on this list! Though it certainly helps if you’re in at least a similar time zone as your client for easier communication.

Typical Pay: $500-$2,000 per month

Social Media Manager

Businesses around the world spread the word about their product or services through social media. The market for social media managers is, therefore, absolutely on fire.

You will essentially coordinate the company’s presence on a whole range of social media platforms, from Facebook and Twitter to Instagram. And, as you can bet, you’ll likely be a busy bee. These jobs are generally full-time, but the pay for experienced candidates can be very attractive and you can work from absolutely anywhere.

Typical Pay: $500-$4,000 per month

Survey Taker

This is an incredibly easy way to put a few dollars in your pocket while on the road. All you have to do is sign into one of many websites on the internet where companies offer you a small cash incentive to take their surveys.

Now, these surveys generally only pay a couple of cents per question, so you won’t get rich off this method, but if you buckle down for an hour here and an hour there you can definitely see some profit! Please remember that there are plenty of scam websites out there promising free money, so take the time to research what website you use.

Find legit surveys on sites like Swag Bucks or Survey Downline .

Typical Pay: $100-$1,000 per month

The Best Travel Jobs for Expats to Work and Travel

Looking for a long-term move and want to find a job that’s going to let you work and travel in a slightly more stable environment? Consider one of these!

English Teacher

English is an intensely valuable asset in most corners of the world. It is the international language of science and therefore needed for any people who are hoping to pursue technical or science-based careers in the international field.

More practically speaking, English is the primary language for a huge chunk of the tourist industry and is, therefore, a highly sought-after skill in many countries. You can generally find a short or long-term gig teaching English abroad in an informal setting (such as to a family) or in a more professional “English as a Second Language” program.

Be aware that most professional teaching opportunities require at least a college degree or a TEFL certification, but English teacher salaries can be really good and accommodation is sometimes provided.

• Teach English in China
• Teach English in Japan
• Teach English in Korea

You can find a lot of jobs on Teach Away or My TEFL .

Typical Pay: $1,000-$5,000 per month

Wherever there are people, they’ll be food. And the hospitality industry is, therefore, always looking for chefs to feed the people.

These jobs, of course, generally require a bit of prior experience and a little know-how. Make no mistakes, the hours can be grueling! But you’ll be rewarded with the chance to explore a new country in your spare time while adding to your repertoire of gastronomic delights. This makes for one of the most perfect travel jobs, where you can be almost unstoppable as you travel from gig to gig the world over.

Typical Pay: $10-$60 per hour

Freelance Massage Therapist

If you have a massage therapist certification sitting on the back burner, now is the time to use it. Travelers all over the world, from skiers to hikers to divers and everything in-between, are always looking for a good massage to end their day.

Jumping from one gig to another in the most sought-after destinations in the world isn’t a bad way to work and travel.

Typical Pay: $30-$60 per hour

Travel Nurse

Once you’ve achieved your degree as a registered nurse (RN), the whole world can open up to you as a travel nurse. Staffing agencies around the world hire adventurous nurses to take on short-term assignments in different parts of the globe.

You could potentially work anywhere, from clinics in developing countries to as part of a medical team aboard a cruise ship. What’s more, these travel nurse jobs occasionally have paid housing included as part of the deal, especially if you’re a cruise ship worker.

Typical Pay: $30-$45 per hour

Traveling Street Vendor

While this job requires a bit more time and supplies than most gigs on the list, it is an excellent way to spend the season making a little extra money and enjoying the area.

You can sell just about anything, although jewelry tends to be the most popular. Art, henna tattoos, leather goods, soaps and clothes are all good options, too. Be sure to check if you need a local permit before setting up shop though.

Typical Pay: $0-$300 per day

Airbnb Host

Have a property that is just collecting dust during your travels? Try making it collect some money instead.

If your property is in, or even vaguely near, a popular tourist spot, then all the better. You can easily make a fair amount of cash by listing your home on one of these Airbnb alternatives .

And we think it’s a much better option than spending all your money on just one long trip. We need to make these experiences last a lifetime, right?

Typical Pay: $400-$8,000 per month depending on your property and customer flow

Certainly an acquired taste as far as travel jobs go. But if you absolutely love kids and have an outgoing and responsible nature, then consider becoming an au pair abroad.

These jobs almost always include lodging and food. And the pay can vary from just a little pocket change all the way up to a very comfortable sum. Living with a family may also help you pick up a new language.

Just look for gigs on Aupair .

Typical Pay: Volunteer – $1,500 per month

Foreign Service Travel Jobs

Running the United States’ embassies abroad takes a lot of work and personnel! You can almost think of every single US embassy as its own little business in a foreign country. As such, it needs its IT folks, engineers, medical staff, HR managers and so on.

If a life of travel and public service tickles your fancy, then perhaps apply to be a Foreign Service Officer. Entry into these positions is very competitive. The entry tests (yes that was plural!) are no pushover. But with hard work and dedication to the job’s mission, you can do it.

Once you land the job, you could potentially experience assignments in almost any country where there’s a US embassy.

Typical Pay: $70,000-$100,000 per year

Peace Corps Volunteer

This job is a serious commitment. You’ll spend years helping others during very long hours and few days off. But you will undoubtedly gain lifelong experiences and help communities in need around the world.

Remember that you often have little choice in the countries or regions to which you are posted. And remember that this job is no vacation. You’re there to help underprivileged communities.

You must, therefore, be prepared for a lower standard of living than in the US. If you’re ready for the two-year commitment, however, dive in. See some of the world while helping make it a better place at the same time!

Learn more on the Peace Corps site.

Typical Pay: $0-$300 per month

The best travel jobs will make your dream of work and travel a reality. Contrary to popular belief, you can earn an income while seeing the world.

Don’t watch everyone else take control of their lives from your office window. Instead, relish in the control you have over your own — from that pebbled beach on the Mediterranean coast.

Travel Jobs FAQs

What is the highest paid traveling job.

Working as a remote software engineer is one of the highest-paying jobs that allows you freedom to travel.

Which job is best for Traveling?

Some of the best travel jobs include bartending, teaching English online, freelancing, or working on a cruise ship or yacht.

How can I make money while traveling?

Ways to make money while traveling include picking up short-term jobs, teaching English online, starting a blog, or becoming a freelancer.

Do travel influencers get paid?

It depends, some very successful influencers get paid well through corporate sponsorships or affiliate programs.

Can you work and travel?

Absolutely. There are many different career options that allow you to work and travel at the same time.

Jeremy Scott Foster

Very Informative post Jeremy,

Teaching yoga while travelling is the best job to earn good money while being traveling the world.

Wow. Your post is so inspiring! You can’t even imagine it!! Uh, really, it’s so nice to know about the variety of opportunities!

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