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Travel tips, city guides, and local insights from the Roavi team.
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Become a Local Friend · Marrakech
Making Money Showing People Around Marrakech (2026)
Marrakech has no shortage of visitors and no shortage of guides. What it has a shortage of is guides who are paid the full amount the traveller handed over.
Oscar Garcia··5 min read
Become a Local Friend · Fes
Making Money as a Guide in Fes (2026)
Fes el-Bali is the largest car-free urban area on earth and nine thousand streets that are not on any usable map. Almost nobody walks it without help, which is the whole business.
Oscar Garcia··4 min read
Become a Local Friend · Casablanca
Earning From Visitors in Casablanca (2026)
Casablanca is where Morocco works and where most visitors change planes. The opportunity is not the medina — it is the people with a free evening and an expense account.
Oscar Garcia··4 min read
Become a Local Friend
Making Money From Travellers in Morocco: An Honest Guide (2026)
Morocco just became the most visited country in Africa and is co-hosting a World Cup in 2030. It is also one of the few countries where guiding is a licensed profession. Both facts matter.
Oscar Garcia··5 min read
Become a Local Friend · Marrakech
Best Side Hustles in Marrakech for 2026
Twenty million visitors a year pass through Morocco and a lot of them land here. The realistic list of ways to earn from that, including the one that is a licensed profession rather than a hustle.
Oscar Garcia··4 min read
Become a Local Friend
Earning Euros and Dollars From Morocco (2026)
A Moroccan salary is spent in dirhams. The interesting question is what happens when part of your income arrives in a currency that is not.
Oscar Garcia··4 min read
Become a Local Friend · Seattle
Getting Paid to Hang Out in Seattle (2026)
The Seattle Freeze is a real, documented, widely complained-about problem. It is also, if you are the friendly one, a business.
Oscar Garcia··4 min read
Become a Local Friend · Austin
Getting Paid to Hang Out in Austin (2026)
A hundred people a day moved here for years. Most of them left their entire social life behind and have not replaced it.
Oscar Garcia··3 min read
Become a Local Friend · Denver
Getting Paid to Hang Out in Denver (2026)
Denver is a city of people who moved here for the mountains and then discovered that everything outdoors assumes you already have four friends and a car.
Oscar Garcia··3 min read
Become a Local Friend · Phoenix
Getting Paid to Hang Out in Phoenix (2026)
Phoenix has two lonely populations at once -- retirees whose circle has thinned, and transplants who arrived last year. Most cities have one.
Oscar Garcia··3 min read
Become a Local Friend · Nashville
Getting Paid to Hang Out in Nashville (2026)
A city that gained a hundred thousand transplants and a bachelorette industry at the same time. Both of them generate the same need from opposite directions.
Oscar Garcia··3 min read
Become a Local Friend · Atlanta
Getting Paid to Hang Out in Atlanta (2026)
Six million people spread across forty miles of highway. Proximity means nothing here, which is exactly why company is worth paying for.
Oscar Garcia··3 min read