Luxury Travel Expert & Entrepreneur
Tom is the owner and co-founder of The Black Tomato Group, parent company of the travel brands Black Tomato, Epic Tomato and creative agency Soster.
Black Tomato has grown to be recognised as the leading authority in the world on luxury travel and caters to a global list of discerning clients. Unearthing clients’ passions and making these a reality is paramount to Black Tomato’s core and have inspired Tom, his partners and their team to create ground-breaking products such as ‘Blink’, pop-up luxury accommodations in remote areas, lauded in Bloomberg as “the coolest thing to hit the travel world.”
In 2023 Black Tomato became the exclusive travel partner of EON Productions – the company behind the entire James Bond film franchise – to launch a series of 007-inspired itineraries. These include an immersive trip to Jamaica, where Ian Fleming famously penned all 12 novels; an Indian odyssey inspired by Octopussy’s (1983) notorious jewel smuggler; and a Bond bonanza through Thailand.
Tom regularly writes and speaks on trends and the future of the luxury travel and lifestyle industries at conferences and on broadcast segments around the world and has been named young entrepreneur of the year by the British Travel Industry Hall of Fame. Tom and Black Tomato have been identified in the media by publications such as Vogue, The NY Times, Conde Nast Traveller, Forbes and the FT as leaders in shaping the future of the luxury travel and lifestyle industries.
Tom is a columnist for Harper’s Bazaar and Inc Magazine and a former member of Travel + Leisure’s Advisory board and AFAR media’s advisory board. In 2018 Conde Nast Traveller named him as one of the 50 people in the world changing the way you travel. In 2019 he won the ‘Contribution to Experiential Travel’ award at the Pure Life Experiences annual awards.
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