Black Tomato

We are Black Tomato and we exist for one simple purpose — to give you the best travel experiences of your life.

Voted a top 10 Best Tour Operator in the Travel + Leisure World's Best Awards 2025. Black Tomato is an award winning tailored travel company that specialises in putting together exceptional, boundary-pushing trips around the globe. We're centered around the belief that people need to make the most of their precious time-off and our travel experts at Black Tomato take pride in arranging unique and personalised experiences that reflect this. The business started as the brainchild of three friends in their late twenties who left the corporate world to spend their days working on what they loved – travel. These three friends, Tom Marchant, James Merrett and Matt Smith, had spent many years travelling in previous jobs, living in Moscow, Johannesburg and everywhere in-between. Out of these experiences and a love for travel, the idea for Black Tomato was born. Nearly a decade later, Black Tomato has grown into a renowned travel brand with offices in London and New York and clients based all over the world.

10/15/2026

What can other ways of life teach us about our own?

Introducing The Keepers, a new collection of five private journeys through Italy, Morocco, China, Chile, and Ireland, shaped by people whose knowledge has been practiced, adapted and passed down through generations.

In Italy’s Langhe-Roero, follow food back to the people who grow it. In Morocco’s mountains, join an Aït Atta family on their seasonal migration. Explore Daoist traditions in China, gather around a curanto on Chiloé and hear the Irish language come alive through stories and song in Connemara.

You’re invited to take part. To walk alongside our hosts, ask questions, try your hand and be a beginner. And perhaps bring some of what you learn into your life back home.

Travel as a couple, solo, with friends or as a family. Each journey is tailored to your interests and your pace.

Meet The Keepers.
Discover the collection at the link in bio.

09/16/2026

On a recent research trip to Kenya, we spent the afternoon learning the patient, precise rhythm of Maasai beadwork with one of the local artisans, Mama Naboisho. One bead, then the next, she taught us the traditional patterns, colors, and techniques. She welcomed us into her arms like a mother would, and even without sharing the same language, it was a reminder that some of the deepest human connections don’t rely on words at all.

08/27/2026

Shanghai and Hong Kong on film. A texture all their own. Repetition, organization and structure are met with the soft, organic interference of nature and centuries old influences. Cities defined by much more than their skylines.

08/25/2026

You’ve never seen wildlife so blissfully content in their natural habitat until you’ve gone to the Galapagos Islands. The sea lions, turtles, flamingos and more all looked like they were living life on vacation. Aboard the Tribute, Anna from our team spent a few days researching travel to the Ecuadorian islands, exploring and snapping her always stunning shots of the local residents. From snorkeling with penguins to sunbathing with iguanas, she was greeted with open arms by the wildlife and their guides, all experts in their craft and not to mention, permanent residents of the islands (a requirement for the gig). Safe to say Anna is still pinching herself that this trip was really something we can experience in the world.

08/07/2026

Japan comes at you fast. Then, just as quickly, everything starts to slow. These are the sounds, textures and small details of a country shaped by speed, silence, ritual and play. Listen closely.

08/04/2026

A cheetah snoozes in the grass. The elephants don’t hurry. The guide knows when to pause and soak in the silence. Kenya doesn’t rush a single thing. And for a few days on the remote Olderkesi area of the Maasai Mara, neither do you.

07/31/2026

It’s no surprise that Indonesia’s most photographed moment is also its most crowded one. So when our Travel Expert Ettanya set out to research the Komodo islands for our clients, our local guides put a lot of thought into taking her on a route that didn’t feel like a public highway.

For her there were gentle bays, blossoming reefs, and icy towels to lift her hiking spirits – and then a picnic they’d laid out on a pink sand beach that felt like it had been improvised [note: it hadn’t].

And there wasn’t another traveler in sight.

Then, finally, she reached the Komodo dragons themselves – crowds and all. And it was totally worth it.

Routes like this don’t come from a search engine. They come from knowing the best people to take you there.

07/30/2026

Black Tomato Co-Founder Tom Marchant has spent two decades chasing the trips that change something in you, not just fill a camera roll. In his latest article for COVETEUR, he maps seven of the best travel spots for full fledged disconnection. They are environments where the sky takes over, where the land carries a kind of intelligence that predates people, and where boredom, if you're willing to sit with it, becomes something closer to wonder.

They are environments where the sky takes over, where the land carries a kind of intelligence that predates people, and where boredom, if you're willing to sit with it, becomes something closer to wonder.

Read the full article and finally find the cure to your existential crisis: https://coveteur.com/mystical-destination-travel-guide

07/24/2026

When we think of Lisbon, we hear the screech and clatter of the elétrico making a tight turn, we can smell the cinnamon topped Pastel de Nata, we can taste the grilled sardines and Ginjinha we sipped on late into the night and we feel that bit of magic you experience walking into a seemingly simple church only to find a gilded masterpiece. It’s the kind of city you keep coming back to and each time think “I could totally live here”.

Tag someone in the comments who should meet you in Lisbon.

07/21/2026

We go on research trips to deepen our knowledge of the world’s rarest corners. But going isn’t enough. For us, it’s about building real and lasting relationships with the people who bring their homelands to life.

You might call them guides, local experts, trusted insiders. We’re also lucky to call them friends – and we have done for years.

Meet Giugliana - Together with her father, Pier, Giugliana founded the country’s most inspiring reforestation program. At Bosque Vivo, they run Costa Rica’s first forest nursery dedicated to high-altitude native trees. But their work extends far beyond planting. Through educational programs for students and visitors, Giugliana invites others to become guardians of the forest. In May, she carried that message to the TEDxPuraVidaED stage.

Meet Floriana - the owner and hostess at Hacienda Montezuma, a regenerative ranch and nature retreat. She has a vision for wildlife one can only envy. Her creativity for her space seems boundless and the way this all stemmed from a challenge with her father, once a big game hunter reformed by his daughters compassion for animals, makes it all the more inspiring. She’s the kind of hostess who pulls off all the things you never thought you needed from a trip to a Costa Rican ranch.

Meet Javier - Less a guide and more of a close friend. He knows where to go, who to know and how to master the unexpected. He not only seamlessly stitches together the intricacies of the trip but had several surprises up his sleeve. Like a swim in a hidden waterfall followed by a private chef pop-up picnic silhouetted by a jaw-dropping view of Arenal Volcano. Calling it a “little lunch” was an understatement.

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