Gina Hill

I grew up in a smaller Tennessee town where travel mostly meant a trip to places like Myrtle Beach or Gatlinburg. When I was in 5th grade, I won a random drawing for a week stay at the legendary Fontainbleau Miami Beach. I felt like I had been dropped right into a movie set and was blown away by the fact that places like that even existed! It was there that my love of travel was born.

While there weren't many opportunities to scratch my travel itch in subsequent years, I more than made up for it when I did a semester abroad in college. What an eye opener! Getting out of one's bubble is a goal I've tried to pass along to my own son and we aspire to travel as often as possible as a family -- the farther away, the better!

After graduating from the University of Tennessee with a degree in communications, I spent a decade at CNN. Much of my job involved planning logistics and travel for reporters and camera crews. That kind of organizing got into my blood and now I love planning trips almost as much as actually taking them!