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Get paid to travel
Photos and story by James Hill
PORTLAND, Ore. – How would you like to journey to exotic, faraway places and get paid at the same time? Portland Community College class can show you how to make this dream a reality with an upcoming online class. Tour directors earn as much as $1,900 per week to escort local, domestic, and international tours and cruises. This winter, students have only to journey to their home computer to access Get Paid to Travel, a non-credit class, to position them for future trips as a professional tour director. Taught by Cherie Anderson, the class covers daily travel plans, communication skills, emergencies, group airport check-ins, hotel procedures, tour briefings and more. Students will finish the class armed with resources to step directly into tour director positions for domestic and international travel. "Cherie’s twenty years of international tour-guide experience provides online students with a thorough (and unvarnished) look at the job of tour directing,"said PCC Community Education manager Marcia Truman.Held entirely online via the Internet, the class offers the flexibility to open lessons whenever your schedule allows and features discussion boards with the instructor and other students. New six-week classes will begin monthly throughout the winter on Jan. 21, Feb. 18, and March 17. Cost is $79.For more information, contact PCC Community Education Online Learning at 503-731-6650 or visit www.ourcoursescometoyou.com.
About James Hill
James G. Hill, an award-winning journalist and public relations writer, is the Director of Public Relations at Portland Community College. A graduate of Portland State University, James has worked as a section editor for the Newberg Graphic... more »