March Tour News
Hi from Rick: A Uniquely Rick Steves Experience
I just got home from our annual guide-mentoring tour in Italy — a week of hands-on experiences, designed to teach our newest hires how to lead a Rick Steves tour.
Imagine: 20 tour guides, gathered on a piazza, assembling themselves into a human cathedral. To create a perfect Gothic structure, you need 13 people: six columns, stretching their arms out to meet at pointed arches; six flying buttresses behind those columns, to reinforce the structure, while opening up space for giant windows; and, of course, a glorious human spire to top it all off.
For decades, I've been using this "human cathedral" method with my tour members (just before they step into their first Gothic cathedral) to help them better appreciate the glory of the High Middle Ages. And now, it's my joy to teach this approach to our newest crop of tour guides… Read more