FAQ

This is the other kind of taking time off of work 🤭 (thought to be clear, this has nothing to do with your job) PTO stands for Paid Travel Opportunity.

I wanted it to be a play on words, because your only access to travel should not be because you begged your boss for a few days off. It should be an adventure.

Paid Travel Opportunities are any fully or partially funded programs, deals, grants, or opportunities that allows recipients that have an element of travel. In many cases PTO require an application or pitch.

Examples: Travel Grants, International Conferences, Study Abroad Scholarships, Travel Grants, Global Incubators, International Speaking Engagements, Remote Job Opportunities, Travel Contests and Sweepstakes, and more.

Established in 2018 as a tool on PacksLight.com, the PTO Dashboard is the original, public, free listing of all PTO found and accumulated by Gabby.

SeekPTO is the upgrade.  No longer a simple list, SeekPTO will be an entire PTO world which will include the PTO Dashboard—and so much more.

SeekPTO is the all-in-one membership that not only shares incredible paid travel opportunities, but offers community, accountability, and travel inspiration!

If you are a student and you're  dying to travel between classes (or for your classes!) but have no idea where to start, SeekPTO is for you.

If you just graduated and are seeking direction in life through travel experiences, SeekPTO is for you.

If you work a 9-5 that is slowly killing you and you've decided life is too short to wait until retirement to live your travel bucket list, SeekPTO is for you.

But to get specific: 

Common age range:

  • most PTO are for 18 – 30 years old, though do not list an age requirement and therefore are open to all

Common nationalities:

  • 65% USA
  • 15% “All Nationalities” (everyone can apply!)
  • 10% Canada
  • 10% Other Nationalities

Yes. But it will run differently. There will always be a free, unpaid element to SeekPTO because I truly want to keep these travel opportunities accessible to those who need it most.

 

But, the good stuff will be curated, vetted, easier to filter, easier to access, and ad-free inside SeekPTO because we have human beings employed to search, filter, vet, and deliver these opportunities every single week.

 

It will still be at an extremely affordable cost, especially considering your membership will be connecting you with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of travel funding!

Gabby Beckford Founder, 29 🗽

New York City_Headshot Gabby

I always had dreams of traveling but I didn't grow up with money—when I was 17, I applied to 200+ scholarships to afford college! But one day I had an idea: if there are scholarships for college, maybe there are scholarships for travel? Spoiler alert: there are.

 

I've since been awarded more than $200,000 in paid travel opportunities (which I call PTO) and traveled to countries like the UAE 🇦🇪, South Korea 🇰🇷, Austria 🇦🇹, and Fiji 🇫🇯 and more. PTO have led me to become a full-time content creator at @packslight and transforming my life and finances. And I want them to transform your life too!

 

Read more about The PTO Dashboard and meet the whole SeekPTO team, here.

New York City_Headshot Gabby