As the Host, you're the one bringing everyone together, but you don't have to be a tour guide (in fact, every trip has a local Guide built-in).

Your job is to get your community excited, encourage them to sign up once the trip launches, and set the tone for the trip itself. 

After you sign up, your first step is to survey your audience — find out where they want to go, their budgets, and the best time of year to travel. To become a Host, Creators need to get enough survey responses. Then you'll work with Safari Mode to select the perfect itinerary, and launch it to your community. From there, you're getting folks stoked and signed up to travel with you!

Safari Mode has your back every step of the way with resources and best practices on how to be a great host

Absolutely — as a Host, you get paid to travel with your community! Each travel Host is paid a good portion of the trip revenue. Everything on the itinerary is included for you for free (and a plus one if you want to bring a friend along). We'll even issue Hosts an earnings advance to help cover trip requirements.

Exact Host earnings can vary — while the average Host earns $300 per trip, we let Creators determine how much they make as a part of pricing their trip, but encourage you to set the price within your community's budget. 

Safety is core to everything we do — and it starts with how we build and operate our business.

When it comes to our trips, local Operators undergo a rigorous vetting process that includes everything from standard safety qualifications like licensing, insurance coverage, and crisis management systems to measures like waste reduction processes and fostering a responsible travel philosophy.

Curated, bespoke itineraries designed by our experts mean safety is built-in for Hosts, and Safari Mode has created various add-ons, tools, and policies to help you feel even more secure during your trip.

This includes:

• Ability to review (and approve or reject) Travelers.
• Control over how your trip is marketed and to whom.
• The ability to remove any passenger who exhibits problematic or unsafe behavior before or during the trip.
• And general Liability Insurance for all Safari mode Hosts, among other things.

Lastly, Safari mode guidlines exist to ensure that every human — Host, Traveler, Guide, and beyond — feels safe and respected, even while venturing outside of our comfort zones and around the globe.

There is no “one size fits all” answer for what makes a great Host, but we want any Creator who signs up with Safari mode to be set up for success.

Typically, selling out a trip comes down to audience size and engagement (authentic, relatable Content Creators do really well here).

When it comes to hosting a safari mode trip, it's most often influencers with at least 1,000 followers on one of the major social media platforms who thrive.

But that doesn't mean you can't sell out a trip if you have 500 followers who are passionate and highly engaged. If you think your community is a strong fit, sign up and let's start the conversation!