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I recently returned from a group trip…

I recently returned from a group trip organized by Glove Travel for a total of nine people. They helped organize a trip down to Patagonia and then back up through Santiago for a few days of relaxation and wine tasting. Their recommendations and advice were extremely helpful for selecting activities and locations. Everything was coordinated and organized perfectly. Everyone was friendly, on time, and extremely engaging with our group. Thank you Angeles and Silvia for your help and looking forward to booking again in the future!

Date of experience : March 27, 2024

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Hi Aaron, Thank you for this amazing feedback, it really is a boost of incredible positive energy for all of us. We are thrilled that you were able to return and finish your trip and that all the group had a great experience. Thank you again for trusting us on such a special journey. Warmest Regards from all the Glove Team,

Our Perfect Trip

We had such a good trip, thoroughly enjoyed discovering Chile. Silvia, Angie, Francesca were terrific. Silvia's guidance for getting the most of our Chile trip was perfect. Angie's daily guidance with private guide names, pickup times, required documentation gave me complete confidence. Private guides were energetic, knowledgeable, personable, tailored our time to our interests and capabilities. Angie and Francesca turned on a dime and arranged for the changes we requested in our Patagonia visit, the day before our visit.

Date of experience : January 24, 2024

5 Stars to Glove Travel

I am happy to give a 5 star review to the team at Glove travel who helped us arrange two amazing trips to Chile (2023) and Uruguay (2024). Their attention to detail, ability to listen to what we wanted to achieve on our trip and then recommend excellent places and activities to match, their responsiveness not only while planning the trip but while we were in country - all differentiated them from other travel companies we have worked with in the past. We would highly recommend Glove for anyone traveling in S.America.

Date of experience : January 08, 2024

Dear Diane, Thank you for your stellar review! We're thrilled to have helped make your trips to Chile and Uruguay amazing experiences. Your praise for our attention to detail, personalized recommendations, and responsiveness throughout your journey means the world to us. We're honored to have exceeded your expectations and would be delighted to assist you with any future travels in South America or beyond. Thank you once again for choosing Glove Travel!

Incredible Patagonia Journey

We just returned from an incredible 16-day journey to Patagonia including Buenos Aires, El Chalten, El Calafate, Torres del Paine, Rio Serrano, and Santiago. Sylvia and Angeles (Angie) did an outstanding job creating a seamless itinerary with all of the very specific activities that we wanted – iconic hikes in Fitzroy & Torres del Paine, kayaking and mini-ice trekking the Perito Moreno Glacier, fly fishing Lago Roca, horseback riding at Eolo Patagonia, 2 days of extraordinary puma tracking as well as horseback riding and fishing at Rio Serrano. They took the time to understand our interests and worked diligently to secure the necessary bookings. We also relied on their personal advice and experience regarding hotel choices and feel that we achieved the perfect balance of luxury accommodations that were as close to our activities as possible. We are recommending Glove Travel to all of our family and friends and hope to work with them again soon.

Date of experience : February 21, 2024

Dear Vicent, We are thrilled to hear your Patagonia journey was fantastic! We are delighted to know you found the perfect balance of luxury accommodations and activities' proximity. Your recommendation means a lot, and we're eager to welcome your loved ones. Whenever you're ready for your next adventure, we're here to make it remarkable. Thank you for choosing Glove Travel!

Top travel agencies are generally good…

Top travel agencies are generally good in a variety of the multiple facets of a journey. But very rarely do they truly excel in the planning, execution, and communications. From our first contact with a rough idea of where and what we wanted to do all the way through to the final post-trip performance inquiries, Glove Travel was exemplary across the board. Their staff, primarily Silvia and Angie, were personable, professional, knowledgeable, and just real pleasures to deal with. The guides, drivers, and accommodations they arranged were equally exceptional! It’s too bad there aren’t 10 stars to mark our appreciation and thanks for a great experience.

Date of experience : November 03, 2023

Thank you William for your fantastic review! We're thrilled that Glove Travel, especially Silvia and Angie, made your journey exceptional. Your kind words about our planning, execution, and communication mean the world to us. We'll share your compliments with our team, and we look forward to welcoming you on another adventure soon! Best regards, Glove Travel Team

Amazing trip to Patagonia

We just returned from a month traveling in the lakes district of Chile and then in both Chilean and Argentinian Patagonia, all planned by Silvia and Angie at Glove Travel. We are seasoned travelers but hadn't traveled in South American before. We explained the kind of self-guided hiking trips we wanted to do, what we liked and how we liked to travel. Silvia and Angie were great listeners and put together an amazing trip following our wishes. They were very knowledgeable and found great places for us to stay, a number of which we wouldn't have found on our own. They arranged hotels, local flights, car rentals and transfers and all went like clockwork. They were extremely responsive, answering our questions quickly during the trip and responded on weekends and holidays. We traveled independently but felt very supported throughout our trip. Silvia and Angie were lovely people, clearly invested in the success of our trip and the nature of our experience. We recommend them enthusiastically and will use Glove Travel again when we return to Chile and Argentina. Jeff and Gail, Newton , MA, USA

Date of experience : December 26, 2023

Dear Jeff and Gail, Thank you for entrusting Glove Travel with planning your month-long exploration of the Lakes District of Chile and both Chilean and Argentinian Patagonia. We're thrilled to learn that Silvia and Angie were able to create a tailored self-guided hiking experience that perfectly matched your preferences. Your enthusiastic recommendation means the world to us, and we look forward to assisting you in crafting more exceptional experiences when you decide to return to explore further. Warm regards, The Glove Travel Team

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Loved our Trip to Chile planned by Glove Travek!

Date of experience : February 01, 2024

Thanks you very much for your kind words & review, Kevin! Looking forward to seeing you soon. Glove Travel Team

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ATM 2024: UAE reveals details of GCC’s Schengen-styled ‘Grand Tours’ visa

The GCC Grand Tours visa will allow tourists to spend more than 30 days in the region

Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri, the UAE Minister of Economy, unveiled plans for the introduction of the ‘GCC Grand Tours’ visa, a unified Gulf tourist visa, during the Arabian Travel Market’s (ATM) opening day.

“In a significant move aimed at simplifying travel logistics and fostering tourism, the Gulf Cooperation Council has given the green light to a unified tourist visa that will allow travellers to visit all six countries,” stated Al Marri.

The GCC Grand Tours visa will allow tourists to spend more than 30 days in the region. According to the minister, this will make travel to the region more convenient and affordable for tourists. It will also increase activity and employment numbers in the region, he added.

Rollout and implementation of visa system

While an official rollout date was not provided, Khalid Jasim Al Midfa of Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Authority indicated that the system should be operational by the end of 2024.

“By the end of this year, the whole system should be in place. Many people and teams, led by the Ministry of Economy in the UAE and other ministries in other countries, are working on it tirelessly to make it happen in the best possible way, emphasising digital transformation,” said Al Midfa.

Al Midfa highlighted the collaborative efforts among ministries to ensure a seamless and digitally transformed visa system.

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Al Marri emphasised the economic significance of tourism. The minister cited the World Travel and Tourism Council’s (WTTC) research and stated that travel and tourism contributed 11.7 per cent to the UAE’s GDP last year, amounting to Dhs220bn.

“The forecast is set even higher, with an anticipated contribution of 12 per cent to our GDP, equating to Dh236bn,” he added.

“I believe that our regional ambitions should not be to recover to pre-pandemic benchmarks but exceed them merely,” said Al Marri.

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The ‘GCC Grand Tours’ visa aims to simplify travel logistics, making tourism within the GCC more accessible and cost-effective for visitors. This initiative is expected to boost tourist activity and create employment opportunities across the region.

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The Rick Steves guide to life

Travel mogul. Philanthropist. Legal weed champion. The real Rick Steves is so much more complex than who you see on TV.

EDMONDS, Wash. — At first glance, it is hard to tell that Rick Steves is protesting.

In the center of his hometown, America’s favorite travel host is perched on the edge of a fountain roundabout engaging in some friendly civil disobedience. As cars circle the intersection, Steves smiles and waves, looking more like an Elf on a Shelf than an angry picketer. This is his way of reminding people he wishes they’d stop driving here.

Steves’s family moved to Edmonds when he was 12, and the 68-year-old is still happy to call it home. Rather than relocate to his beloved Europe, he dreams of bringing some European sensibilities to the edge of the Puget Sound, less than 20 miles north of Seattle.

When he’s not traveling around Europe, writing about Europe or running his multimillion-dollar European tour company, the prolific TV host and author likes to squeeze in some local activism. The roundabout routine is his push to block off Edmonds’s very American Main Street for pedestrians. If you squint at it, you can see what Steves sees: This would be the perfect place for a lively town square.

“I like a lot of things about Europe, but I love the urban energy of Europe. I love the piazza,” Steves said in a wistful tone you might recognize from PBS. “We don’t have a piazza.”

Unfortunately for Steves, the voting majority of the city does not love the idea of parking their SUVs farther away to shop. So despite his Boy Scout enthusiasm, the most famous man in Edmonds must keep up the perch-and-wave. This is not his only crusade.

Spend any amount of time with Steves, and you’ll encounter a total ham who loves a zany bit. But if you ask him about serious issues such as car-free zones, he’ll bring up other causes that are dear to him: affordable housing, supporting the arts, creating senior centers for the elderly to age with dignity.

He’s anti-Trump and pro-cannabis. He does not care if that is bad for business.

The average Rick Steves fan has probably missed this side of him. On TV, they see an always-sunny history lover who makes going abroad feel approachable for the average American. That’s an incomplete picture, like thinking you know Paris because you’ve seen the Eiffel Tower on YouTube.

Meet him in Edmonds, and he’ll fill in the rest.

It may look like a lot of gallivanting, but being Rick Steves takes a lot of work.

He spends three months of the year overseas, researching, writing, recording, refining tours, updating guidebooks. If he’s not planning or producing content, he’s often doing promotional events across the United States. This year, Steves is celebrating the 40th edition of his first book, “Europe Through the Back Door.” Over the course of his career, he has built a privately held company that generates $120 million in revenue a year, published 110 books, filmed 12 seasons of “Rick Steves’ Europe” and produced more than 750 podcast episodes.

“It’s just like coordinating a three-ring circus,” Steves said.

That is: really fun, sort of exhilarating and extremely complicated. To pull this off, Steves does not observe the French 35-hour workweek. He’s a workhorse with a reputation for keeping a frenetic pace year-round.

“It’s more of an American work culture,” Amy Duncan, Steves’s communications director, told me. “He’s an unapologetic capitalist, but he is also a socialist.”

He makes enough money to fly first class, but he sits in only economy, claiming that he doesn’t mind being cramped.

“It never occurred to me that I’m suffering,” he said. “As long as I’ve got an aisle and a seat that reclines, I’m happy.”

Actually, Steves believes airlines should have only one class. It’s part of his egalitarian worldview. He’s also anti-points and anti-miles, refusing to sign up for airline loyalty programs because he believes that they bully us into complicating our lives.

Steves also enforces a self-imposed “ carbon tax ” on his tour company, which takes more than 30,000 people to Europe annually. For every customer, Steves invests $30 to atone for emissions created by their flights between the United States and Europe. Last year, that added up to $1 million donated to a portfolio of organizations, Steves said.

“I don’t need to be a slave to the quarterly profit statement. I want to be around and profitable in 10 years from now in a world that you can travel in that’s stable,” Steves said. “This is a smart investment, and it’s an ethical expense that I should pay for.”

Rick Steves will tell you he’s motivated by making money; the more he can earn, the more good he can do with it.

“Vicarious consumption, that’s one of my things,” Steves said.

After amassing a windfall from the 2001 George W. Bush tax cuts for high earners, Steves donated $1 million to support the local symphony and performing arts center. In 2005, he used retirement savings to buy a 24-unit apartment complex for the local YWCA’s use as transitional housing for women and children. He figured he’d eventually sell the complex and live on the earnings. About a decade later, he changed his mind and donated the complex valued at $4 million.

He also gave more than $4 million to help build the Edmonds Waterfront Center, a vibrant gathering place for seniors where his daughter had her wedding in 2021. And he gave another $2 million for a similar center in the nearby city of Lynnwood, which broke ground in mid-April .

“Rick puts his money where his mouth is,” said Nancy Leson, a former Seattle Times food critic who used to let Steves’s daughter babysit her son. She has appreciated his regular presence in the community, which has entailed hosting events for local politics at his house and shopping at the farmers market .

“He changed travel,” local resident Karen Howe said on her way into the Waterfront Center with a friend. She has used Steves’s guidebooks for years. “He’s introduced us to places that most of us would never think of going.”

Steves hasn’t won his piazza battle, but he has brought European touches to Edmonds. At the Rick Steves’ Europe headquarters, there’s an E.U. flag hanging from the mocha brick facade. And gargoyles that drain rainwater, just like at the Notre Dame cathedral.

“Gargoyles scare away evil spirits,” Steves points out, unable to suppress his inner tour guide.

Here Steves employs more than 100 people: editors, audio producers, tour specialists and cartographers such as Dave Hoerlein, his first employee. That’s excluding the fleet of guides and drivers he contracts across the pond to shepherd tour customers.

Inside, he bounds through a maze of cubicles, his neck craned forward, always at an eager pace. His 6-foot frame appears leaner than in previous seasons of his life, but his signature look is familiar. No, not khakis and a button-down. That’s vintage Rick. These days, he wears dark jeans and a button-down, plus a thin scarf and leather sneakers.

During a day of meetings, Steves’s fjord-blue eyes lit up at the minutia of the business. He went over new maps with Hoerlein. He and longtime co-author Cameron Hewitt addressed problems such as finding a “less glitzy” stop on the Amalfi Coast that’s not Sorrento. They discussed whether a place is worth visiting after it’s gotten too popular, and Steves indulged in some gallows humor.

“It’s going to be like holding the corpse of a loved one who just died,” he said.

His critics argue that the “Rick Steves Effect” can turn a charming village, restaurant or museum into a tourist magnet. Matthew Kepnes, the travel writer behind the blog Nomadic Matt , points to the Swiss town Zermatt, which he says Steves put on the map, and has since dealt with overtourism . You’re bound to bump into groups with Rick Steves guidebooks in Italy’s increasingly crowded Cinque Terre.

Whether Steves is actually to blame for changing a place is up for debate. There are plenty of destinations he’s covered that haven’t been inundated with swarms of Americans (see also: Gdańsk).

Steves says he assesses whether a place wants tourism, if it can handle it gracefully. If it doesn’t or can’t, he may mention it but not promote it.

He has faith — maybe too much — that his clients share his values.

“Does [my work] change the personality of a town? It can. Am I a dramatic impact on Europe? No,” he said.

“There’s a handful of places I really promote aggressively that I’ve had a serious impact on, but otherwise ... my travelers are the kind of people that take only pictures and leave only footprints. ... They’re good travelers.”

You don’t have to spend much time in Edmonds to see why Steves never considered leaving.

The city — population roughly 42,000 — sits on a majestic inlet. You can get to a major international airport in about an hour. The community is so courteous, it has an “umbrella share” program in case people forget their own on a rainy day. As Steves walks around town, he greets people by name. He lives within walking distance to both his favorite diner and a pétanque court, the French answer to Italian bocce. He plays bongos at his church on Sundays.

In 1967, Richard “Dick” Steves moved the family here because he was worried about Rick Junior.

“I was hanging out with dangerous kids and going down the wrong trail,” Steves said. Seriously.

His dad, an Army veteran, got by in the upscale suburb as a piano technician and importer. When Steves was 14, his parents dragged him on a work trip to Europe to visit piano factories; it was a radical experience that sparked his lifelong passion for travel.

Back in Edmonds, Steves started teaching piano, eventually turning his savings into trips abroad of his own — not only to Europe, but also to Turkey, Nepal, Afghanistan. He went to college nearby, earning degrees in European history and business from the University of Washington, where he played in the Husky Marching Band.

After graduating, Steves figured he could keep up his routine: give piano lessons during the school year, then travel during the summer. He started teaching travel classes in the same recital hall where his piano students performed. This was back when there was no internet and there were few guidebooks to consult for trip planning.

The classes were a hit. At 25, Steves turned his lecture materials into a 180-page book, and self-published “Europe Through the Back Door,” in 1980.

Four years later, he hosted his first European minibus tour group, serving as both bus driver and guide.

His businesses have evolved; his bus tours now take up to 28 travelers, a number Steves says is a sweet spot between making the tour more affordable yet enjoyable for customers and profitable for the company. But his mission has remained the same: to be the best resource for European travel and help Americans travel better.

“I just focus on that and I love it,” he said. “It takes my life out of balance — which is not good — but it lets me do a lot of stuff that I believe in and that’s good.”

Steves has been open about the challenges of being a travel mogul. As he built his empire, he was also raising a family. Being “married” to both took a toll. In 2010, Steves and his wife, Anne, divorced after 25 years of marriage.

Up the hill from his junior high, Rick Steves’s modest beige home offers a window into his many lives. There are family photos on the walls, from older relatives to his baby grandson, Atlas. He hosts political fundraisers on the sprawling deck. A painting of Kerala, India, nods to one of his favorite countries. (People forget that Steves did four editions of “Asia Through the Back Door.”)

Next to his grand piano, there’s a stuffed creature that Steves calls his “Silver Fox” baring its teeth and wearing novelty sunglasses with cannabis leaves on the lenses — a nod to two of his interests: taxidermy and marijuana activism.

“It’s the civil liberties. … It’s the racism. … Everything about it is wrong,” he said of keeping weed illegal.

As for the toothy fox, Steves doesn’t do typical souvenirs anymore, but he makes an exception for stuffed animals.

“The wooden shoes and the pewter Viking ships are so obvious,” he said. “I like to do something a little more organic and a little more striking, and it takes me back there — I like it.”

He’s a very good piano player. He can also play the sousaphone and the trumpet — which he did regularly during the pandemic, performing taps for his neighbors at sunset.

The coronavirus was a nightmare for the travel business, but a miracle for Steves’s love life.

After running in the same social circles for years, he and Shelley Bryan Wee, a prominent local bishop, started dating at the end of 2019. They had a lot in common. Both are progressive Lutherans. Both are divorced with adult children. But neither worked a typical 9-to-5, and one of them spent three months of the year in Europe.

Then shutdowns happened. Steves, who couldn’t remember whether he’d ever had dinner in the same place 10 nights in a row, spent 100 nights at the same table with Wee. It solidified their relationship.

“Shelley is a constant,” Steves said. He still struggles with the balancing act between work and love.

When the stars align and they’re both in Edmonds, Wee cooks, and Steves plays sous-chef. They walk Jackson, Wee’s labradoodle, creating their own version of the passeggiata, Italy’s traditional evening stroll. They play table tennis before dinner.

When the world reopened, they started traveling together. They’ve made time for a few big vacations: a trip to Morocco, where they were caught in a windstorm that blew the windows out of their car; a luxury barge cruise through Burgundy, France, “that was embarrassingly expensive,” Steves confessed, followed by a week hiking in the Swiss Alps; and another hiking trip between remote lodges on Mont Blanc.

Before their first trip, Steves edited the contents of Wee’s suitcase, because packing light is part of his philosophy.

“What do you say?” she asked. “You’re talking to Rick Steves.”

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In St. Pete, I can recommend an excellent private guide. If you send me a message, I will provide you with her contact info.

Patriarshy Dom offers both group and private tours. Their website lists the types of tours they offer. If you don't want another tour in addition to your art/history tour, my recommendations might vary a little, depending on what you will see on your art/history tour, but I can recommend the following points of interest. How you will get to these places depends on whether you can speak/read a little Russian and/or how willing you are to pay for taxis around town. Your hotel concierge can help you locate these places on a city map:

In Moscow - Red Square , Kremlin, St. Basil's Cathedral are a must-see. They are all together in one spot. Don't bother going inside St. Basil's. You can arrange a Kremlin tour (this is the only way to get inside the Kremlin) through the tour company, if it is not on your art/history tour. Christ the Savior Cathedral is also nearby and is very beautiful, inside and out. Novodevichy Convent, is very nice, located not far from Sportivnaya Metro. Sparrow Hills, lookout from which you can get a good view of the city, near Moscow State University. Market at Ismailovo - souvenirs, crafts, artwork and flea market. Arbat Street - tourist street, where you can also buy souvenirs (but more expensive, because it is in the city center), etc, along with restaurants and bars. Take the river cruise (water taxis) from Kievskaya station to Novospasky Monastery (or start at Novospasky and cruise to Kievskaya). The cruise takes about 1-1/2 hours and is a good way to see a lot of the important sights in Moscow. Cost is about 250 rubles ($10) per person.

In St. Pete, you should see Peterhoff, although in October, I think the fountains which, for me, are the main attraction, will be turned off. The Hermitage is also a must-see. Both Peterfhoff and the Hermitage will likely be part of your art/history tour. Other sites would include some of the cathedrals/churches, such as St Isaac's, Cathedral on the Spilled Blood, the Naval Cathedral and the main cathedral on Nevsky Prospect (I'm ashamed to admit that I"ve forgotten the name). Also Peter and Paul Fortress is interesting.

Many thanks, Spyderwood for the fabulous information. It was just exactly what I was looking for and have just checked out the PD site. Great and unique tours offered and hope they will soon post tours for October. Yes, I may be interested in private tour guide in St. Petersburg. Appreciated the advice.

Thanks for the tips...will arrive in Moscow October 9th and return from St. P on the 23rd, so it will be cooler. Smithsonian tour is staying at Marriott Grand and it does not look like walking distance for anything!! About getting rubles: where? Do you speak Russian? I am signed up to do a day tour out of St. P to Novgorod area, which sounds fantastic. I love Russian music and hope I can find a concert to go to while I am there. Glad to hear about how to dress (not drab). Any other tips you can think of will be appreciated. Dixie

Re: the Bolshoi Theater, the season will have restarted by the time you get here in October. You can go to http://www.bolshoi.ru to see the schedule. Once at the website, select "English Version" and then I think you can select a schedule of performances, to see what's on. Be advised however, that the troupe may be the Bolshoi troupe, but the theater is not the original theater. It is currently under renovation, so performances are on the "New Stage" across the street. For a nice musical experience, however, it is hard to beat. You don't have to be a ballet lover to appreciate the beauty and artistry of the performances. After all, it is widely regarded as perhaps the best ballet in the world. At the website, you can select seats and purchase tickets online, for pickup at the box office. We have done this many times, always without a hitch. If you really think you want to attend a ballet or opera at the Bolshoi, you should go ahead and order early. Last minute availability is not assured.

Actually, your hotel is in a pretty good location. The Marriott Grand is probably the best hotel in terms of location, quality and price. Anything nicer and closer to the center will cost much more, and won't necessarily be much nicer, although I haven't yet been in the new Ritz Carlton, but with the cheap rooms starting at about $1,000/night, I don't think I'll be staying there any time soon. Depending on how much of a walker you are, you can get to a lot of places from the Marriott Grand on foot. Red Square , Kremlin, etc, Arbat Street, Christ the Saviour and many other sights are all within a 15 to 30 minute walk or a fairly inexpensive taxi ride. The busses that run along Tverskaya Street, right in front of the hotel, can also take you to the Kremlin, Arbat, Christ the Saviour, etc. Just check with the concierge about which bus number, and which direction. The hotel is also near the Mayakovskaya Metro station, if you figure out how to use the Metro, which actually isn't so tough, except for the fact that the signs in the stations are all in Russian. Of course, that's not a problem for me any more, but it was a bit intimidating at first, but I learned that, even without understanding the words, I could navigate around through the Metro, as long as I had a good Metro map in my pocket. If nothing else, as long as you know where you are at any given point, and you know where you want to go, you can get on and count the number of stops in between.

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VIVIZ has revealed the stops for their upcoming world tour!

On May 6, the girl group dropped the schedule for their 2024 world tour “V.hind : Love and Tears.”

Starting at KBS Arena in Seoul on June 1 and 2, VIVIZ will then travel to Taipei and Hong Kong. Afterwards, they will continue their tour through 21 cities in the United States.

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New Edition's Las Vegas residency is still going strong through 2024, though only a few tour dates remain. Luckily, the iconic music group has added additional tour dates and there are a few different ways to buy New Edition tickets.

New Edition began their residency at the Encore Theater in Las Vegas in February, with their stay ultimately being extended through November. After their original six shows, New Edition added two more legs for this year for a total of 10 more concert dates. Performing on their 2024 concert tour are group members Bobby Brown, Ralph Tresvant, Johnny Gill, Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe, who sing their classic hits like "Candy Girl," "Cool It Now," and "If It Isn't Love."

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All six members of New Edition are returning for the remainder of the group's Las Vegas residency, which kicks off on July 3. It features seven shows from July 3 to July 13 in Las Vegas, with the third leg picking back up for three additional concert dates in October and November.

The group is also appearing at the Cincinnati Music Festival in July.

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Russian tour guide among Guardian's top 10 worldwide 

Tourists take pictures of the State Historical Museum in Moscow's Red Square.

A Moscow tour guide with years of experiencing helping tourists discover the Russian capital is among the world's top ten, according to the Guardian .

Felix Maltsev is an employee of Patriarshy Dom Tours that offers a wide range of thematic tours from the city's Stalin and Jewish past to the Moscow of Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita .

"His enthusiasm for the city’s palatial metro system or the grimmest Soviet memorials has provided generations of visitors with a unique way into Russian culture and history," the Guardian says.

"I think Felix, in many ways, is one-of-a-kind ... he is the kind of book-lover who will translate Russian poetry himself for his clients rather than read what he considers a substandard translation," Guardian contributor Phoebe Taplin , who picked Maltsev, told RBTH.

"He is far more than a guide, really; to many people living in Moscow, he is a guru and teacher, " she added.

According to Taplin, Maltsev is not unique. "Many of Felix's fellow guides at Patriarshy Dom are also old-school intellectuals as are many other Russians working in museums and libraries, as guides and teachers. This is one of the things that those of us who love Russian culture prize so highly about the country," she said.