A contributor to travel and lifestyle publications, glossy magazines and Newsweek.com, Laurie is also Editorial Director at TourismIQ.com, the online community for destination marketers. Laurie is a hybrid Ameri-Brit who spent half a lifetime in London working in international luxury hotel marketing before leaving the hills of San Francisco for the flat grid of NYC. Former tourism director at the official DMO in both Boston and New York City, she won the SATW 2022 Gold Award for Travel Industry Writing and has been named Yahoo Contributor of the Year.