My Recent Interview About Hairy Armpits, European Scams, and Saying Yes to Experiences
1:00 01/01/1970
Every so often I give an interview that makes me think, “I’ve got to share these ideas.” This interview with Ingram Advance Travel is one of those. Enjoy! INGRAM: Let’s just get this out of...
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Introducing Some Fellow Travelers: Vagabond Beacon Bell
1:00 01/01/1970
Travel is about unleashing your wanderlust, embracing life, and stoking the free spirit that is in all of us. And travel writing gives us a chance to browse through the adventures of others to gain...
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12th Man Flags Fly Across Europe
1:00 01/01/1970
Last week we hosted over a hundred of our European guides in town for our annual tour guide summit. As a thanks for their huge part in successfully guiding over 800 Rick Steves Europe Tours groups...
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Our Tour Reunion Parties Aren’t the Same Old Song and Dance
1:00 01/01/1970
In this video we see the Prague Castle Orchestra kicking off the first of six tour alumni parties that we hosted last week. About 2,000 of the travelers who joined us on our tours last year gathered...
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Our Guides Reveal Their Hidden Talents
1:00 01/01/1970
Last week we hosted more than a hundred of our guides from all over Europe at our Seattle-area headquarters for a series of workshops, parties, and brain-storming sessions. A favorite night for me is...
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The Rick Steves Tour Guides Disco Party Boat
1:00 01/01/1970
If you have a lot of European friends in town in Seattle, a perfect night out is dancing in your own private party boat on the Puget Sound with a 1970s disco theme. Our tour guides emptied the...
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Showing Our Visiting Tour Guides a Good Time
1:00 01/01/1970
When you have guests visiting from Europe, it just makes sense to invite them into your home. So last Thursday night, we opened our doors to well over a hundred Rick Steves Tours guides from across...
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Celebrating 2014 and Looking Ahead to 2015 at Our Tour Reunion
1:00 01/01/1970
The annual Rick Steves’ Tour Reunion has dominated our work for the last ten days. The event is a twofer: a huge party celebrating tour members who joined us in Europe last year, and a “guide...
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The Hamster Wheel States of America
1:00 01/01/1970
Thank you for the many thoughtful comments on my recent Seattle Times editorial (which you can read at the end of this post) about how media and corporations are working together to create “The...
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Cambodia – a journey by book
1:00 01/01/1970
Cambodia’s history spans from the magnificence of Angkor to the tragedy of the Khmer Rouge years. There are hundreds of books worth reading before or during your travels; some provide valuable...
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