Anyone can sign up and anyone can donate, but not everyone will be getting a free holiday.
Still, it doesn't hurt to ask.
Honeyfund
A wedding registry seems old fashioned in the age of online shopping and AirBnB. Honeymooners have started asking wedding guests to put money towards an ultimate honeymoon getaway.
Honeyfund has a collection of partners including Caribbean resorts, theme parks and restaurants at which the fund can be spent.
Or cash-strapped newlyweds can draw cash directly from the registry, though the website will charge a not insubstantial 2.8% + $0.30 fee.
So far US$540,466,278 has been given via Honeyfund.
Though presumably this total mostly from guests and relatives, rather than from generous – albeit slightly creepy – strangers browsing wedding registries on the internet.
Fund My Travel
Fundmytravel.com is fairly self-explanatory. It is a platform for users to ask for donations to put towards journeys they would otherwise not be able to afford. This is mostly noble pursuits of studying, interning and volunteering. Though the website welcomes travellers to set up an account for any travel-related fund.
All the company asks is for users to create a 'campaign' to put forward their case to potential backers.
One user's campaign, entitled "Sunny beach here I come!", puts forward the case that they are "ready for some fun in the sun, dinks [sic] by the pool and nice massage."
Successful campaigns have raised totals of between NZ$700 and NZ$700.
You just have to start a campaign and let the funds roll in. However, FundMyTravel takes a hefty 5% of the funds raised.
Go Fund Me
GoFundMe claims to be the world's leading site for free travel fundraising. As a funding website it has raised more money for causes than anywhere else on the web, though these vary from holding beauty pageants to disaster-relief.
Though Travel funding accounts for a large proportion of the listings.
The website invites users to create campaigns to "help pay for your study," "an adventure you've always wanted to take" or even family reunions.
A popular sub-category is "Disneyland" funding, with campaigners asking for money to sending friends and relatives to the theme park.
Fundly
Fundly has the very broad brief of inviting users to "raise money for anything".
One of the many things the site helps users raise money towards are trips and adventures.
However, the types of trips people are fundraising for seem to be equally varied.
While there are many charity and cause-related Fundly campaigns, some users have decided to push the "money for anything" mantra to extremes.
One user from Littleton Colorado has begun a campaign called "I want to climb a mountain as a banana" in which he plans to do just that. Marking his 25th birthday by climbing the 14'ers dressed as a yellow fruit, he has asked patrons to help him "see this $20 dream played out in real life."
Just Giving
22million people and 25,800 registered charities have used the website JustGiving to raise money for charitable and personal causes they feel passionate about.
While charity starts at home, users' fundraising efforts often take them abroad. JustGiving has helped raise money to taking
Some less charitable causes – but ones that users feel no less passionate about – include wine tasting tours for students at Canterbury University and sports fans wanting to travel to see internationals.
One tourist was using the website to raise $400 to put towards her 'New Zealand wardrobe'.
"I'm not the most trendy person it has to be said, but apparently you DO need 6 winter hats, 9 different scarves, 8 bikinis, a rucksack of jewellery and a six foot pile of clothes to go with the entire contents of a shoe factory,"
