Digital nomads have billions to spend. Entrepreneurs are cashing in.

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It was a problem he was well familiar with as a digital nomad; after five years on the road, he'd struggled always starting from scratch to meet people in new places...

Rowena Hennigan, a global expert in remote work and digital nomadism and an ambassador for Boundless Life, which provides education services for digital nomad families, says the market is only in its infancy, and there is extensive opportunity for many, many entrepreneurs...

"If you can cater and offer a service to a digital nomad by default, you also capture a related and bigger market, that is the remote workers who may travel time-to-time, the workcationers and the part-time or try-it-out nomads," says Hennigan. "Essentially, any remote worker could try being a digital nomad, dipping their toes in the water of taking their work on the road."..

"This additional level of self-awareness and conscious nomading also hints that these women are willing to spend more disposable nomad income proactively and with intention to avoid and prevent issues while nomading," she says.. Torrecillas says a large part of Bucketlist Bombshells' marketing efforts for the first five years revolved around education and "explaining to women how it's possible to work remotely, what an online business even is and how it's a strong alternative to a traditional 9-to-5 career"...

With travel banned, they found a market opportunity to expand the business model they'd built for nomads, extending it to women remote workers in general. "April 2020 was our highest revenue month in business history, with the surge of demand for finding online work during the pandemic," says Brown...