Get Paid to Put Your Travel Experiences in the Hands of Instagram

Image: Couple debates on eating a fried scorpion in Bangkok. (photo via iStock / Getty Images Plus / Kritchanut)
Image: Couple debates on eating a fried scorpion in Bangkok. (photo via iStock / Getty Images Plus / Kritchanut)
Alex Temblador
by Alex Temblador
Last updated: 7:00 PM ET, Wed March 13, 2019

Busabout is offering a unique travel opportunity to travelers who are open-minded and courageous. The travel operator is looking for six social content creators to join its team: you just have to be willing to travel however Instagram wishes.

Those selected will get paid to enjoy an all-expenses-paid trip for six to 11 weeks that will cost up to $10,400. The six winners will be paid $260 weekly on top of the all-expenses-paid trip.

However, these content creators have to leave their vacation experience in the hands of Busabout's Instagram audience. Instagram will decide if they'll be skydiving or white water rafting in Lauterbrunnen or if they'll have to eat a deep-fried insect in Bangkok.

Busabout will use interactive polls on Instagram Stories to allow their Instagram followers to make the travel decisions.

The six selected will travel this summer in what Busabout is calling "The Great Travel Experiment." They'll travel through one of three destinations, South East Asia, Europe or the U.S.

Each destination will have two positions - an Instagram Storyteller who is comfortable in front of a camera, and the Videographer, who is skilled in filming and editing video content. Every position will be required to do the challenges chosen by the Instagram audience.

To apply to be part of The Great Travel Experiment, travelers can go to Busabout's website and choose a position, a preferred destination and record a 60-second video that captures their hometown. Travelers have until April 8, 2019, to enter.

Busabout will choose a shortlist of candidates and let the public vote on the final six on Busabout's website.


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