21/02/2025
I love my job ❤️ and I am so proud to be part of the amazing Rick Steves Europe guide community!
Great guides revolutionize travel experiences. In Istanbul, Lale spirits you away to lively back alleys and markets you’d never stumble upon alone. The charming châteaux of the Loire Valley become compelling characters in French history when visited with Veronique. In Veliko Tarnovo, Stefan introduces you to Bulgarian artisans keeping traditional culture alive with hand-crafted goods rather than knockoffs and knick-knacks. Without a great storyteller like Francesca at your side, the Roman Forum is just a pile of rocks.
At Rick Steves’ Europe, we proudly employ over 200 expert guides who have spent decades mastering the alchemy of transforming beautiful places and sensory experiences into cultural epiphanies and human connections. With a good guide, you never skip along the surface of a new city to come away with only pretty pictures; instead, you time travel and delve into new dimensions to emerge with fresh understandings and lifelong memories.
Today is International Tourist Guide Day, and we want to celebrate our guides and the vital work they do to connect cultures. So, if you’ve explored alongside a Rick Steves’ Europe guide—whether you adventured with them on a Rick Steves’ Europe tour or found them listed in the pages of our guidebooks—please share a magical moment they created for you in the comments below. We’ll then share these memories with our guides to encourage them to continue teaching about their cultures with energy and passion.
