I’m asked regularly about how to make money travel blogging, so I’ve decided to finally write this detailed explanation of how I do it in 2024. There are a lot of articles on monetising a blog out there online but I’ve found that most are unrealistic and/or outdated. Many are also very American-centric or not specifically about travel blogging.
I don’t know why people are so fascinated by how to make money through travel blogging, but they are. I’m asked almost every time I tell someone what I do: ‘How do you make money from that?’. As if writing, photography and digital skills (the three areas that make up blogging) aren’t all fairly established jobs already. I don’t know whether this curiosity is specific to travel blogging, or whether finance, recipe or gardening bloggers get the same interrogation.
This article is not about how to set a blog up and start writing (although I might do another one on that). I’m just going to talk about the different income streams my blog has. Hopefully it’ll be interesting and also maybe helpful for other travel bloggers just starting out.
Get the kettle on and have a read…