Questions for interviewing a traveller

[Keefeology]

Hi,

I'm working on a personal project about coming up with an e-book or a guide for travelling around the world for students and I will be interviewing a friend who has traveled to many different locations while maximizing his budget allowing him to travel to at least 5-7 countries in a year while being a student and living in decent accommodations.

Other than the obvious, "How do you plan your trip?" type of questions I was hoping that people from this forum, if you have any questions you'd like to ask about how this guy manages his time between travelling (especially travelling, like how he maximizes his money) and studying and working part time, please stack them up over here so I can ask him because I'm out of ideas when it comes to question asking.

Thanks!

Keith

 

[g_t2006]

Hi,

I'm working on a personal project about coming up with an e-book or a guide for travelling around the world for students and I will be interviewing a friend who has traveled to many different locations while maximizing his budget allowing him to travel to at least 5-7 countries in a year while being a student and living in decent accommodations.

Other than the obvious, "How do you plan your trip?" type of questions I was hoping that people from this forum, if you have any questions you'd like to ask about how this guy manages his time between travelling (especially travelling, like how he maximizes his money) and studying and working part time, please stack them up over here so I can ask him because I'm out of ideas when it comes to question asking.

Thanks!

Keith

Pretty obvious you aren't a traveller. And also you haven't done much research. Read more interviews and blogs of travellers.

The question you asked, how to maximize the $, how to manage time, are questions that seasoned and experienced travellers can't be bothered to answer.

In a nutshell, your project seems boring.

You should target those who sold everything off, just to go round the world. You can ask couples who travel together and see how long they last (on the road) before breaking up. People who don't travel by air. The list is endless.

You don't want a story that's heard so often by people already.

A good site to find people to talk to is couchsurfing.

http://www.lashworldtour.com/travel-interviews-with-other-world-travelers

 

[g_t2006]

Well, if your personal project is for students, there are students who have done more interesting travel rather than study + work part-time and travel.

There's the NTU student who cycled from Singapore to Nepal. There's a NTU or NUS student who went by land to China for the exchange program.

 

[Keefeology]

Pretty obvious you aren't a traveller. And also you haven't done much research. Read more interviews and blogs of travellers.

The question you asked, how to maximize the $, how to manage time, are questions that seasoned and experienced travellers can't be bothered to answer.

In a nutshell, your project seems boring.

You should target those who sold everything off, just to go round the world. You can ask couples who travel together and see how long they last (on the road) before breaking up. People who don't travel by air. The list is endless.

You don't want a story that's heard so often by people already.

A good site to find people to talk to is couchsurfing.

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You are right. I am not a traveller. That is why I am unsure of what type of questions to go for when interviewing a frequent traveller which is why I turned to this forum but you know as per usual.... every dude who posts for the first time in a forum would most likely be told to piss off.

Yes, it would be boring if I were to write ia novel but I'm not doing that. I'm going for a "how-to" type of book. Very similar to the 'four hour work week' by Tim Ferris.

My apologies, I realize I didn't fully state what I'm going for. I'm not trying to go for an award winning love or drama story book here. I'm trying to incorporate "mini retirements" into students who are currently studying, it's kind of like a "why you should follow this lifestyle" type of book.

There is this site currently, PDFs | Let's Go but a blog will still be a blog. Yes, it does endorse in some products such as e books that would be beneficial to the reader if he/she may choose so to invest in them but they're talking about the individual countries itself and not a way they should live their lives which would support the whole "mini retirement" thing.

I definitely will go deeper into the current targeted market niche on whether there are duplications of the current idea I have in mind before I fully enter the market. I'm really narrowing down the current niche I have from just "travelling" already because obviously on travelling itself there are tons of books related to it.

But for now, what I really need are questions that are provided by the kind readers of this forum who'd provide them if let's say an extremely famous traveler whose sole occupation is not to just travel were to be interviewed.

Thank you.

 

[Keefeology]

Well, if your personal project is for students, there are students who have done more interesting travel rather than study + work part-time and travel.

There's the NTU student who cycled from Singapore to Nepal. There's a NTU or NUS student who went by land to China for the exchange program.

Really? So these programs are initiated by schools or by their own accord?

Let me do some research into them and see whether the current stories out there which involves these individuals would provide juicy lifestyle information to all the fellow students out there.