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In 2017, Doug BarnardAt that time a college student traveled to India with his mother. The experience eventually had a great influence, which promoted a full-time traveler, it was possible to know the path.
“It was an experience to open to India. The first time it was so aliens, so stimulant and for me, I had more of this epiphany,” Barnard has done CNBC.
“The most exciting part was to talk to people and see how things work. Immersion really got me.”
Barnard graduated in 2018 and went to New York City to live in Walmart. At the time, he won about $ 60,000 working in the e-commerce sector, and he did not like his work, it certainly was not his passion.
“I think I think he was looking for more meaning in my work,” he said.
Since its united states, Barnard has traveled to places like Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
Doug Barnard
While working on Walmart, Barnard began the YouTube channel dedicated to his travels. The first trip appeared on his channel was a visit to Saudi Arabia in 2020.
“At the time, this mysterious country was a mysterious country from the American point of view of Saudi Arabia. It closed the decades and newly opened for tourism,” he noted. “Then people thought I was crazy. My parents didn’t ask me. My grandfather offered me to return me. But I left and was awesome.”
That year, Barnard headed out of work due to the pandemic. While others could be unemployed, Barnard had the opportunity to bet himself.
“My dream was to travel throughout the full-time, living abroad, immerse yourself in these foreign places and make a lifestyle of YouTube.”
Barnard went to Istanbul in 2023.
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From the city of New York to Istanbul, Turkey
About three months after you get it, Barnard reserved a card outside the United States. In January 2021, he arrived at Serbia and then has been Istanbul, Turkey for two years before deciding on its home basis in 2023.
“When I was growing in Connecticut, I never imagined I would go to live in a place like Istanbul or travel to all the places I have been lucky,” says Barnard. “I would return to Istanbul again and again. I really do it. It’s the center of the world. I love the language, I love culture, I love history.”
Abroad his time Barnard was inspired to start a Boutique Tourism Company Doug Barnard trip. They take small groups of 8-10 people in cultural places like Iraq, Syria and Pakistan. Barnard also offers private visits.
Barnard’s travels inspired a tourism business abroad, driving customers in immersive visits.
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The group’s visits begin for a $ 2,700 person and includes the country that includes the country. Flights are not included.
“It really travels. They are like Egypt and India. They have places like Egypt and India, but the tourism industry is very new to the real life of Iraq, says you really get real experience,” say Barnard. “People are excited to you. Hospitality is out of this world and everything you are watching is unique.”
Barnard’s YouTube channel helped bring the first customer of his tourism company. Many of the destinations that appear in his early values offers his visit to his visit.
“Lots of time, we assume that we are in business and then saying that the people are excited, they give people,” says Barnardek. “They are very proud to show their country. They are happy to see when the aliens are interested in visiting and learning about them.”
Doug Barnard Travel offers visits other places like Syria and Iraq.
Doug Barnard
In 2024, Doug Barnard Travel had five group visits and led to $ 100,100 in revenue. Barnard’s YouTube Channel business added $ 64,029 in revenue, according to the documents revised by CNBC. In the same year, Barnard paid $ 83,808 pay.
In Istanbul, Barnard lives in two bedrooms, two and a half bathroom duplex apartment, where he and his girlfriend, ̇lkay, Pay 55,000 lires in Turkey or $ 1,368.91 per month.
Monthly monthly expenses for an average of 2,000 Turkish lires, or approximately $ 50 USD. This includes bills such as water, electricity, internet and gas. Barnard says Istanbul is a perfect location for him because a large part of his business is in the Middle East. It is one of the main reasons, it does not see himself moving to the US
“The more time I know in Istanbul and the more people get to know and better, the more languages I get, the more it feels like it is home,” he noted.
Barnard and his girlfriend, ̇lkay, live in a duplex apartment in Istanbul.
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More than four years since Barnard left the USA, he has taught traveling around the world than he has been able to stay in America than in America.
“I think the Americans have that impression that the whole world hates us that the whole world doesn’t have my experience,” he said. “We are geographically isolated in the western hemisphere there, and we saw so many worlds.”
Euro conversions were made to USD using 1 Turkish OAGA rate conversion rate 0.02 USD on July 12, 2025. All amounts are rounded up to nearest dollars.
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