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Rick Steves

Leading Authority on European Travel

Rick Steves is a popular public television host, a best-selling guidebook author..

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Rick Steves is a popular public television host, a best-selling guidebook author, and an outspoken activist who encourages Americans to broaden their perspectives through travel. But above all else, Steves considers himself a teacher. He taught his first travel class at his college campus in the mid-1970s—and now, more than 40 years later, he still measures his success not by dollars earned, but by trips impacted.

Widely considered America’s leading authority on European travel, Steves produces a best-selling series of guidebooks and is the author of Travel as a Political Act. He is dedicated to providing all Americans with access to travel information and has made extensive resources available for free on the Rick Steves’ Europe website, via the Rick Steves Audio Europe™ app, and in Rick Steves Classroom Europe™, a searchable database of short, teachable video clips.

A longtime supporter of public broadcasting, Steves produces and hosts public television and radio shows that air across the nation.

He is the founder and owner of Rick Steves’ Europe (RSE), a travel business with more than 100 fulltime employees. RSE operates a successful tour program which brings more than 30,000 people to Europe annually. The company contributes annually to a portfolio of climate-smart nonprofits, essentially paying a self-imposed carbon tax.

Steves works closely with several advocacy groups and makes regular financial contributions to more than 170 organizations, including annual contributions to Bread for the World. He is a board member of NORML and has been instrumental in the legalization of marijuana in several states. He has also provided $8 million in funding to build two new neighborhood centers in his community and has donated a 24-unit apartment building for homeless women and their children to his local YWCA.

Steves spends about four months a year in Europe, researching guidebooks, fine-tuning his tour program, filming his TV show, and making new discoveries for travelers.

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Europe Through the Back Door with Rick Steves

Rick Steves’ The Holy Land: Israelis & Palestinians Today

Rick Steves’ Europe: A Symphonic Journey

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Videos

Orkney, Scotland: Scapa Flow and WWII - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite
Cairo, Egypt: Colorful, Charming Caravanserai Market - Rick Steves - Travel Bite

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