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Ellen LeCompte
About Ellen LeCompte :
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.
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Virginia & Britain: Ties that Bind. 400 Years of Money, Marriage and Magnolias
The Magic Suitcase – a Practical Guide to Packing
Whether packing for an overnight business trip, weekend getaway, week’s cruise or month-long grand-tour, it can be daunting task to balance the bare minimum with manic over-packing. Add on the challenges of the ever-changing airline baggage regulations and you are probably ready to throw up your hands in defeat. Ellen LeCompte will share her packing tricks of the trade so that you will sail through airports and arrive at your destination with just what you need.
5000 Years of History in Four Days - England in the Fast Lane
England’s history stretches back thousands of years and Ellen LeCompte has the perfect plan to cover the centuries without breaking a sweat. Based in the Cotswolds, her easy to follow itinerary takes you from pre-historic stone circles to World War II memorials. Her strategy is based in the belief that history should be fun, and her entertaining experiences with her own family, not to mention nieces, nephews and assorted friends, will have you jumping on a plane and headed “across the pond” for a long weekend of adventure.
There is More to Travel than the Plane Tickets
If all there were to a relaxing vacation or a successful business trip is booking your tickets on-line and getting to the airport, then life would be simple. The reality is that what makes a trip, either for business or pleasure; memorable (in a good way!) is the minimizing of logistical hiccups and the experience once at your destination. No matter what the budget, Ellen LeCompte’s savvy advice will give you the secret to successful travel.
Travel with Your Family without Losing Your Sanity
Ellen LeCompte likes to quote her uncle, a WWI veteran, who declared that he would rather organize moving 50,000 soldiers on a troop train across Europe than take his family on a road trip to visit the grandparents in Alabama. In fact family vacations don’t need to send you into therapy – but they do take planning and a good strategy to balance out the many factors of timing, age, interests, and energy levels. Whether it is a cruise in the Caribbean or a driving tour of New England, Ellen LeCompte can show you how vacations can be special family experiences that will be remembered with grins rather than grimaces.
Welcome to America – It’s Not All Mouse-Ears and TV Shows
Ask most Europeans why they want to visit America and the answer is almost always Disney World – ask what else and you might get New York, possibly Las Vegas but after that it is a blank stare. Foreigners’ perception of the United States is heavily drawn from the media with Hollywood movies and TV Series re-runs of Law and Order being the primary sources. The cultural diversity, natural beauty, and the rich history of this vast country are all too often overlooked by visitors from abroad. As we move into the 21st century, Ellen LeCompte will examine how travel in America is perceived by the Europeans and what can be done to change the misconceptions they have.
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