Who We Are?

What We’re About

we’re a team
of people in the
know about travel

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.

It began with a feeling

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.

Unique, different, and daring

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’.

We’ll show you the world

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.

Regenerative Travel

A Lasting Impact For A Changing World