Experience
Tom Marchant is the co-founder of Black Tomato, where he leads the company's business development, marketing, and creative strategies. Since co-founding the company in 2005, he has helped build it into one of the world's leading luxury travel brands, known for delivering highly personal and emotionally driven trips to a discerning global clientele. A columnist for both Harper's BAZAAR and Inc. Magazine, Tom is a recognized thought leader who speaks at global conferences and has addressed audiences at Google and Harvard University. He sits on the Travel Advisory Board for Six Senses Hotels and the Innovation Council for Kerzner International, and the World Luxury Chamber of Commerce has named him one of the top luxury speakers in the world.
Expertise
Tom's focus has always been tapping the emotional side of travel: what a place does to you when you're in it, whether that's a landscape so remote it forces you to pay attention again or a city with real texture and a complex history. A career built on that conviction has earned him recognition as a Condé Nast Traveler Top Travel Specialist and a place on Inc. Magazine's Best in Business list, among accolades. At Coveteur, he explores travel through that same lens, writing about mystical places to disconnect, destinations with atmosphere, myth, a pull you can't quite explain, and what it means to travel with genuine curiosity and intention.
Education
Bachelor of Arts from Newcastle University
