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Family Holidays
Our team is full of family travellers, meaning we know what it takes to make sure everyone enjoys the experience just as much as each other.
Honeymoons
We’ve been crafting dream itineraries for newly married couples for years. Learn more about the ins and outs of our honeymoon service here.
Solo Holidays
Our travel experts have experienced the thrills and challenges of solo travel, all with the aim of producing some of our most immersive and exciting itineraries.
Couples Holidays
Our couple itineraries are paced perfectly for you to enjoy the very best a country has to offer whilst making sure you enjoy the quality time together you’re after.
Group Holidays
No matter what the size or the occasion, we’re well versed in taking larger groups of people away for those special adventures.
Safari Holidays
With a team of experts that have worked as conservationists and wildlife photographers, we have the expertise to make your safari dreams come true.
Remote Destinations
We’ve chosen these experiences, destinations and adventures to bring you closer to the great outdoors. This is your ticket to our wonderful world.
Unusual Holidays
The world may be conquered, but enough secrets remain to keep us up all night, dreaming of ways to whisk you off to the most unique corners of the globe. Where first?
Adventure Holidays
Hike across mountain ridgelines, scramble across glaciers and kayak down rivers – these trips are designed to immerse you in vast wildernesses and ancient cultures.
Beach Holidays
Porcelain shores, perfect seas and swaying palms; the allure of a beach break is hard to ignore. Which is why we handpick the best beachfront boltholes to offer you…
Food holidays
Food and travel have long gone hand in hand, and we have put together some mouth-watering trips that capture the palate, of countries across the world. Bon appétit.
Slow Travel
As the world becomes busier, slow travel has never felt so fitting. Whether it’s meeting fishermen in Maine or learning the Dukha-way in Mongolia, take time to connect.
Eclipse holidays
Eclipse travel celebrates our place in the wider cosmos. Let us take you to wherever in the world the eclipse is at its most arresting, and we’ll do it in style.
Proposal Service
Found the one and want to propose in style? The moment will be a memory forever and we’re here to help you make sure it’s the most perfect moment for you and your loved one.
Train Travel
“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” We’ve all heard this, haven’t we? And with these captivating luxury train journeys, we’ll show you the joy to be found travelling across the world by rail.
Set Jetting
Swapping salubrious saloons and questionable lodgings for sumptuous hotels and eye-opening experiences, each of our show-stopping journeys will take you behind scenes of some of TV’s most awe-inspiring locations.
See You in the Moment
You need only bring yourselves – your people, your histories. We’ll provide the moment itself. The anticipation, the togetherness, the memory. This is something to savour. This is something to remember.
Field Trip
Education begins in the classroom, but it’s IRL that younger generations put their lessons to the test. Field Trip is a curriculum of educational encounters around the world.
Take me on a Story
A series of family experiences celebrating the transformative power of the books we loved when we were young, and the stories our children have come to adore.
Get Lost
Designed as a once-in-a-lifetime challenge, train with elite survival experts before traversing a polar, jungle, coastal, mountain or desert region in your mission back to civilisation.
Blink
The ultimate luxury camping retreat. From the Sahara desert to the Andean Mountains, with Blink anywhere you can envisage it, we will create it.
Bring it Back
Bring It Back will embed you in an entirely different way of thinking, and of learning about a culture directly from its experts on the ground. You may be surprised by what you discover.
Drone the World
With Drone the World, you’ll have your own personal film to show off your adventure. Filmed and edited by an international director, this is no ordinary home movie.
The Great American View
This series of breathtaking journeys culminate in some of America’s most legendary sights. They are the places you’ve always sought out, and now it’s your time to find them.
James Bond
We are proud to have been selected as the official travel partner to curate James Bond inspired trips.
Agatha Christie
We’ve been hand-picked by Agatha Christie Limited to help bring Agatha’s world-famous Grand Tour to life through a series of episodic trips across Africa, Australasia and North America, and a unique prelude in London.
Tasting Notes
Eating at a Michelin – starred restaurant is one thing. But now you can learn about the country through the lens of some of the most critically acclaimed chefs in the world, by travelling with them on the ultimately culinary experience
Eater Journeys
We’re often asked who we’d invite to our ideal dinner party. Ernest Shackleton? Amelia Earheart? The entire editorial team of Eater? Easily. So we invited our friends at Eater over to dinner and quizzed them about their favourite foodie trips and then created them for you to experience too.
Surf Air
We’re proud to launch a brand-new series of exclusive US trips with ground-breaking private air company Surf Air. Bringing our combined knowledge of ground and sky together, we’re helping you to see the world in style.
Take the Open Road with Auberge
With the iconic hotel brand Auberge Resorts, we’ve created a new series of tailormade, luxurious road trip itineraries. Emblems of America’s most iconic landscapes, regions, and people.
Remarkable Drives of Discovery with Auberge
Following on from the much lauded ‘Take the Open Road’ series, here’s five brand-new bespoke, multi-destination trips created with our friends at Auberge Resorts Collection. Delve deeper than ever before.
About us
What We're About
And we're on a mission to create remarkable experiences that thoughtfully connect our clients to the world and inspire them to explore it with curiosity, humility and a sense of wonder.
Black Tomato was founded in 2005 by Tom, James and Matt
A trio of friends who wanted to sweep aside the prevailing current of 'package' trips and same-same vacations.
Since then, we've become award-winning curators of tailor-made travel experiences – all crafted with inspirational engineering and an incomparable attention to detail. For us, the most important thing has always been: how do you want to feel? The rest is in the detail.
And we want to make the remarkable happen
The journeys we make, make us. We learnt this from legendary travel writer Bruce Chatwin, speaking about the importance of living a “restless” life. When we plan trips for our clients, we want to strip away the barriers that can get between them and the world. They – you – are searching for the unexpected, the unfamiliar, the unknown. Restlessness helps.
But so does expertise. Over the years, we've assembled a team of travel fanatics – people who live and breathe the world and everything in it. They're starry-eyed wanderers with the organisational nous of precision engineers. These are the people who'll help you find your way. Even if that means getting 'lost'.
And in an entirely new light
We curate trips for travellers who want to see the world up close – foregoing 'tick lists' and tourist traps in favour of deeper and more intimate connections with the world and its cultures.
Today, we take people to all seven continents, designing all of our trips from the ground up. This way, no two journeys are ever quite alike. Trekking with the tribes of Borneo; learning the trade of tanning in Morocco; joining the jostling crowds of Sienna's palio. It's a wide, wild world. And your travels should be the same.
A Lasting Impact For A Changing World
At Black Tomato, we know you’re seeking travel experiences that will leave a lasting, positive impact on our planet and the communities that call it home. This is a belief we also share, and it has been since our founding in 2005.
Find out moreOur purpose
TO INSPIRE PEOPLE THROUGH
REMARKABLE TRAVEL EXPERIENCES
We exist to create a lasting impact for our
clients,
our partners and the communities
we engage with.
For clients
We offer experiences that enrich
their lives and create lifelong memories.
For partners
and local communities
It's about fostering sustainable, regenerative interactions, supporting local economies, preserving cultural heritage and promoting an appreciation of diverse ways of life.
Ultimately, we believe that travel
is a genuine force for good.
Our mission is to create remarkable experiences that thoughtfullythoughtful connect our clients to the world, inspiring them to explore it with curiosity,curious humilityhumble and a sense of wonder.
Our values
These three things keep us on course – whatever we do, and wherever in the world we find ourselves
Ours is a wide, wild world
We like to ask questions. How can this be better? Where next? What's genuinely possible, and what do our clients really want? Put another way, we love questions – and we love innovators.
Because thinking is caring
Good things come to those who think. And, in our world, to think is to care. Not only for our clients, but for each other – and the planet that we share.
Let others do the talking
We don't get carried away. We don't get caught up in the hype. We're calmly confident in what we do; graceful under pressure, proud but never arrogant about our achievements.
Our Journey
Rare & remarkable
It all goes back to when Tom, James and Matt were traveling in Eastern Europe. One evening, somewhere in the backstreets, they encountered the black tomato on a menu. When they asked about it, they were told they should never pass up the chance to enjoy this 'rare and remarkable' experience. From that point on the founders set out to become the black tomato of travel. Offering rare and remarkable experiences to their curious clients.
Like a perfectly tailored suit, each trip we plan is different; just as each traveller is different. We're here to help you experience the world on your terms – to follow your dreams, to pursue your passions. With obsessive attention to detail and extraordinary customer client service, we're all about the personal. It's your world. It's your trip.
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