Ellen LeCompte
Travel expert; Consultant

As a travel enthusiast and professional, Ellen LeCompte's focus is on small special interest groups and family travel. For the past five years, Travel and Leisure magazine named Ellen LeCompte as one of the top 125 United States travel agents. As a travel expert and consultant, she speaks on topics ranging from the practical such as packing and traveling with your family, to the cultural and historical with her perspective on both America and Europe.

Ellen LeCompte’s deep rooted appreciation for history, travel and preservation stems from her childhood. Growing up in the National Historic Landmark town of Waterford, Virginia she was exposed to historical preservation and appreciation for the unique entities and environment surrounding her. LeCompte’s studies took her to England both for boarding school and Christ College in Cambridge, where she studied English and History. She later returned to the states to receive a BA in International Economics at the College of William and Mary.  

It is Ellen’s love of people and travel that has shaped her personal life and career. Ellen is a travel enthusiast and professional, escorting small special interest groups and advising families both in the USA and Europe, with an emphasis on the United Kingdom, where she and her husband have a house. 

Living in Richmond, Virginia for the past thirty years, Ellen has pursued her interest in history, gardens, architecture, historic conservation and adaptive re-use through the Historic Richmond Foundation and the Maymont Foundation.  Since 2001, Ellen has served on the board of the Maymont Foundation, and she chaired the Maymont Council for Conservation, Preservation & Restoration from 2001 – 2004. From 2006 to 2008 Ellen LeCompte will serve as the President of the English-Speaking Union Richmond Chapter. To say that Ellen LeCompte is very well versed in the subjects of History, Philanthropy, and Travel is an understatement!

Whether chartering the luxury small ship, Sea Dream, having coffee with the Duke of Marlborough in his private apartments at Blenheim palace, or hosting a dinner at Tuckahoe Plantation, the boyhood home of Thomas Jefferson, her clients are always given a remarkable travel experience. Her seminar on Niche Groups is popular with agents as she shares the practical side of making small special interest groups profitable and rewarding to both the agent and client.

Speaking Topics:

·        The Magic Suitcase – a Practical Guide to Packing

·        5000 Years of History in Four Days - England in the Fast Lane

·        There is More to Travel Than the Plane Tickets

·        Travel with Your Family Without Losing Your Sanity

·        Welcome to America – It’s Not All Mouse-Ears and TV Shows.

·        Virginia and Britain: The Ties That Bind - 400 years of Money, Marriage and Magnolias

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