Politicians in Europe are discovering a formula for gaining power.

Preach to the public with fairly catchy simple slogans that will draw attention to you because you seem to offer a simple solution to what looks like a complicated problem.

Coming up, we'll find out what messages Europeans are hearing that bring more votes to the kind

of nationalist parties that used to be considered on the fringe.

Priority to the French people and we want to give job to the French people and because the foreigners are cutting the line in front of us.

Meanwhile, it's been barely 20 years since China opened up to foreign visitors. We'll hear how China's

investments in tourism are paying off. It's so sophisticated. The infrastructure

is in many cases much better than in the United States because it was just built.

And where do you really want to go? Learn how to turn your next road trip into a pilgrimage without even having to be religious.

It doesn't have to be somber to have meaning. It can be fun.

It's all in the hour ahead on Travel with Rick Steves.

Travel in China has skyrocketed ever since the People's Republic established the Golden Week

National Holidays twice a year.

Coming up today on Travel with Rick Steves, journalist Elizabeth Becker tells us what she's learned from analyzing tourism in China,

where a rising middle class is spending their money at home and abroad.

Lately, an anti-establishment mood is fueling political turmoil all over Europe.

Right-wing nationalist parties have been gaining ground with many older voters and complicating

the role of the European Union.

A little later in the hour, friends from Germany, France, and Italy tell us what they're hearing back home,

and they'll explain for us what it means from a European perspective.

What's the difference between a vacation and a pilgrimage? Dan Austin found out years ago

when he joined his brother and his best friend on a load-to-the-ground cross-country bike trip in

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