JS 51: The Savvy Traveler with Rudy Maxa of the Travel Channel’s ‘Rudy Maxa’s World’ & Editor of ‘National Geographic Traveler’

Rudy Maxa, one of America’s premier consumer travel experts currently hosts the Emmy-award winning “Rudy Maxa’s World” featuring unique travel destinations around the world.

Mr. Maxa is well known as public radio’s “Savvy Traveler” and an award-winning contributing editor with National Geographic Traveler magazine. He is a contributing editor to Delta Air Lines’ SKY magazine and Artful Living, the Twin Cities’ lifestyle magazine. The voice of National Geographic Traveler’s “Walks of a Lifetime” podcasts, he also hosts America’s most widely-syndicated, weekend travel radio show, also called “Rudy Maxa’s World,” that airs on 110+ mostly news/talk stations and XM Radio in North America.

As a writer for Traveler, Mr. Maxa’s articles have earned him two Lowell Thomas Bronze Awards for excellence in travel writing from the Society of American Travel Writers. He has contributed travel articles to GQ, Worth, Forbes, Modern Maturity, USA Today, the Washington Post, Town & Country Travel, the Los Angeles Times as well as USAToday.com, MSNBC.com and ABC.com. He’s a frequent guest on national television networks and shows, including CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and “The View.” And he speaks frequently to both public as well as industry groups.

The most recent topics Mr. Maxa has covered include:
--MileValue.com
--ThePointsGuy.com
--LoyaltyLobby.com
--ITASoftware.com that is now owned by Google
--A la carte pricing for travel through sites that have you identify yourself before you look for a fare quote so they can "customize" what you see an what you are offered depending on their algorithms

You can learn more about Rudy at Maxa.tv