Rudy Maxa is one of America's best-best known travel writers and broadcasters. As an award-winning contributing editor with National Geographic Traveler magazine and host of "Smart Travels" and the Emmy-award-winning "Rudy Maxa's World" on public television, he's earned a reputation that fits his moniker on public radio, "The Savvy Traveler."

His hour-long radio call-in show on the CBS all-talk station in Los Angeles, KFWB News Talk 980, "Rudy Maxa's World is broadcast every Sunday night from 2 to 3 o'clock Pacific time. For live, real-time streaming of the show as well as podcasts, visit KFWB.com/rudy. "Rudy Maxa's World with Christopher Elliott" is broadcast on more than 95 stations coast to coast every Saturday morning from 10 to noon Eastern time, though many stations delay broadcast until later in the day as well as on Sunday. The show is also broadcast Saturday night on Sirius/XM Radio at 10 p.m. Eastern on Channel 152. The show's web site is under construction.

For Rudy's "Deal of the Week" on radio, along with other late-breaking travel news and views: www.maxablog.com.

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"Rudy Maxa's World" is the exciting sixth season of Rudy's popular public television shows. Fast-moving, colorful, and information-packed, the latest series takes travelers to a wider range of destinations than ever before: Turkey, Thailand, India, Estonia, Russia (St. Petersburg), Japan, and Argentina. See Rudy's personal notes on each episode as well as information on ordering any of Rudy's DVDs--for destinations as varied as Paris to Shanghai--by visiting the series' web site, "Rudy Maxa's World."