Ms. Lorraine Simpson

Lorraine Simpson, Two-Time Magellan Award-Winning Travel Entrepreneur and now Cityline TV Travel Expert started out as many Travel Advisors did, with a home-based franchise, a computer, and very limited resources.
In a small unfinished basement in 2005 she set up her first travel company. She put a baby gate at the top of the stairs to keep the children away when she took important calls and set out to find business.
Starting a travel business isn’t easy and no-one would come knocking on the door to ask, “hey, do you have a travel agent in your basement?” Needing to find clients, she decided to specialize in groups from the outset.
Fast forward five years and with no financial investment but lots of hard work, she was surpassing $4 million in sales. Her focus was Destination Weddings before it was even a term. Success was great but being alone at the top also harboured fear of failure, and when two offers came in from large multi-national companies, she decided to sell out in favour of what looked like more structure and more stability.