Rick Steves: Let your head, not headlines, guide where you go

Guidebook author and TV travel host Rick Steves embraces and encourages "thoughtful travel," the idea that how you spend your tourism dollars makes a big difference for countries in crisis. That's why this spring he's traveling to Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian territories, among other places.

By Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times Daily Travel & Deal blogger

February 11, 2013