Peggy started working in tourism in 1988 at Oak Alley Plantation and spent over a decade there in various positions before taking a job in loan servicing at Whitney Bank. This job was short lived once she realized that tourism was her passion.
In 1999 she began working for the Bayou Lafourche Area CVB, now known as Louisiana’s Cajun Bayou Tourism. She spent 16 years there as Tourism Sales Manager and then spent 7 years at Carmel Inn & Suites as Director of Sales while also working as Director of Business Development for TripShock…a position she heald for 10 years.
Peggy started True Louisiana Tours as a sideline to her other jobs and, after the pandemic, she decided to dedicate herself to her own company & passions.
Peggy has served on the LTA Board and Past President of the E.D. White Historic Site, Louisiana State Museum – Thibodaux. She joined MSWIT in 2014 and serves on the Board as Historian for the MSWIT New Orleans & also serves on MSWIT Capital Region Chapter.
She and her devoted husband Linton have been married for 30 years and have two grown sons, Donnie and Roy as well as a grandson Dakoda who will be graduating highschool in the spring.
Peggy’s favorite part of being a MSWIT member is the relationships acquired. “There’s always someone I can turn to for advice on both a professional and personal level.”
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