Rick Steves is a television personality and author of United States. He focuses more on the European Travel. Rick is a host for American Public Television series called Rick Steves’ Europe and has a travel show on public radio called Travel With Rick Steves. He is the author of many travel guides that are location specific. He started the career when he was a teacher of the travel classes within The Experimental College. This was a student run program which was not for credit at his alma mater for the University of Washington. He was working as a tour guide during the summer. During that time, he was working as a piano teacher and his father was the owner of the piano store.
From his travels, Rick Steves had written about the travel classes called Europe through the Back Door or ETBD. This was the general guide about how someone should travel in the entire Europe. He was a self-published author and contrary to other guide book entrepreneur, he opened the storefront business where he was teaching piano and as a travel center. He was holding the teaching classes with the storefront show presentation. He did some travel consulting and he organized some few group tours every year. However, he was not providing the travel agency services and ticket booking. Steves is an advocate for independent travel. His media deal and his books about his travel in Europe are directed to the American Audience. He is the producer, writer and the host for the regular television series called Rick Steves’s Europe at Oregon Public Broadcasting. He tells the Americans to become what he says to be temporary locals. He encourages the readers and the viewers to visit different major villages with the cozy villages which are not popular to tourists. He has the mobile applications, radio shows, guidebooks, television series that attracted many people who call themselves the Rickniks.
Rick Steves is of Lutheran religions and has also written about some education videos about the subjects like European Reformation and Martin Luther. Steves is a supporter of the Liberation Theology and he had been the speaker for Lutheran Peace Fellowship. Rick Steves is married and his wife is Anne Steves but they got a divorce in 2010. Rick Steves and his wife are the parents of two children who are grown up and they are called Jackie Steves and Andy Steves. He spends at least a third of a year in Europe where he is filming the TV shows and researching about his guidebooks. His net worth is 10 million US dollars.
Rick Steves is in the support of the decriminalization of the marijuana for the responsible adults. He said that he believes that marijuana is the soft drug like tobacco and alcohol but not a hard drug. He is also in the support of the solution to the homelessness.
| Birth Date: | 10 May, 1955 |
| Age: | 64 yrs |
| Occupations: | Writer Radio personality Travel writer Businessperson |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Edmonds |
| residence: | Edmonds |
| Education: | University of Washington |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | American travel writer and television host |
| Net Worth 2021: | 10 million |
