The Guide Collective brings together professional tour guides from around the world.
Sharing global travel expertise, we’re here to educate, inspire and advise.
Connect with us to discuss your travel dreams.
Sarah Murdoch
Director
Active Founding Member
Sarah Murdoch, Guide Collective founder, is a tour guide, travel writer, artist, architect, and lecturer. For 20 years, she wrote and researched for Rick Steves guidebooks, co-authoring “Rick Steves Sicily.” Through her blog and travel community, Adventures with Sarah, she offers tours around the world, along with packing advice and travel inspiration.
TRISH FEASTER
Managing Editor
Active Founding Member
Along with her work as a veteran tour guide and guidebook researcher, Trish is the founder and CEO of thetravelphile.com where she provides insightful travel advice, helpful travel classes, exciting tour opportunities, and custom travel consulting.
Fran Glaria
Events Editor, Podcaster
Active Founding Member
Fran is a native Basque. Born and raised in Pamplona . He has been leading for a local tour guiding company for the last 20 years. Since 2003 has been organizing small boutique tours of northern Spain.
anna Savino
Instagram Manager
Active Member
Anna is an American expat and wine professional who leads guided wine and food tours in the Piedmont region in Italy. Her small group tours specialize in Barolo and Barbaresco, and seek out the most personal and unique gastronomic experiences in the Langhe.
CHARLIE Rawson
Active Member
Charlie has been a Rick Steves guide since 2018 and has visited, worked or studied in 33 countries, so is an experienced travel teacher. Currently living in Bristol, England, her Celtic blood and love of culture and languages fuel her life of hiking, guiding, yoga and writing.
Åsa Danielsson
Active Member
An avid traveler since childhood, Āsa is a licensed guide in Sweden and works throughout Scandinavia. With a passion for her culture, world languages, music, and dance, she brings a unique vibrancy to her worldview that she generously shares with her travelers.
HELEN HOUSTON
Podcaster
Active Member
Helen Houston is a Blue Badge Scottish Tourist Guide. Helen lives in Fife in Scotland but grew up in Stirling at the very heart of the story of Scotland. Helen would be delighted to take you to the places that you have read about and bring your imagination to life. She would ensure that your eyes were really opened to the interesting and unique culture that is Scotland.
Jorge Román
Podcaster, GCTC Manager
Active Founding Member
Jorge was born and raised in Málaga, Andalucía, Spain. He has worked in the tour guiding industry for the last 24 years. He is experienced organizing small tours groups in Spain and Portugal.
Julian Brown
Associate Editor
Active Founding Member
British guide-lecturer and art-historian Julian Brown specializes in museum visits and historical walking tours in Paris, his home city, and also conducts lecture tours throughout the French provinces, in Italy, Spain and South-East Asia.
Lisa Anderson
Associate Editor
Active Founding Member
Lisa is an American expat. Originally from Seattle, she has lived in Piemonte Italy since 1997. She has been guiding tours for Rick Steves and privately since 1999 and working on a personal blog since 2016.
LIZ LISTER
Associate Editor, Podcaster
Active Founding Member
Born, bred and still resident in Scotland, Liz is a Blue Badge Guide who shares a deep pride and fascination in the country of her birth. Passionate about introducing and interpreting Scotland, Liz’ aim is to educate and inform – but above all else to have FUN!
Molly Verlin
GCTV Editor
Active Member
Molly has led numerous tours throughout Italy and is a professor of Art History and Humanities at Florida State College. She also leads tours in Jacksonville and St. Augustine.
Nina Seffusatti
GCTC Editor
Active Founding Member
Nina was born and raised in Denmark, but since 1993 she has lived in Avignon, France. She offers local tours in the South of France, National tours in France and Denmark, and is a Rick Steves' tour guide in Scandinavia.
Reid Coen
Facebook Live Host
Active Member
Reid lives in Estes Park CO and operates Imprint Tours - specializing in non-European destinations: Southeast Asia, Asia, Morocco, Egypt, Israel, East and Southern Africa, Guatemala, Peru, and Patagonia.
SUSAN BROWN
GC Radio Editor
Active Member
Susan Brown is Scottish born and bred and like all Scots, very proud of her heritage. She loves to get to know her guests and find that little something that “makes” their Scotland trip for them—be it a photo opportunity, musical interlude, food or whisky tasting or connection with the land and the people.
Jesse Blackwood
Having lived in a dozen different European countries plus Canada and the US, Jesse Blackwood embraces life as a true citizen of the world. He is a writer, teacher, and guide who speaks several languages. He also run his own travel company, Alithea Travel.
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