Tom Marchant is an entrepreneurial traveler and co-founder of The Black Tomato Group, parent company of the award-winning bespoke, luxury travel operator Black Tomato, strategic creative agency Studio Black Tomato and luxury corporate incentive agency Black Tomato Agency.  Black Tomato, a Virtuoso member, has been recognized as an innovative authority in global luxury travel by leading industry voices including Bloomberg, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Vogue. Marchant is a member Travel + Leisure’s A List of Top Travel Agents, Conde Nast Traveler’s 2019 World’s Best Travel Specialists and was recently named by Conde Nast Traveler as ‘one of the 50 people in the world changing the way we travel’. Tom’s passion for hitting the road came to a peak when he, his pregnant wife and their Goldendoodle packed up their entire home and drove all of their belongings for a cross-country move from Los Angeles to NYC. Follow Black Tomato on Instagram or Twitter.

Lisa Ellen Niver has explored 101 countries, 6 continents and sailed for seven years on the high seas. She is always ready for more active adventures! Find her talking travel at KTLA TV and in her We Said Go Travel videos with over 900,000 views on YouTube channel. She has been nominated for five Southern California Journalism Awards in the past two years and received 2nd place for her Jewish Journal article. Niver has written for AARP, American Airways, Delta Sky, Luxury Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Robb Report, Sierra Club, Smithsonian, Saturday Evening Post and United Airlines (Hemispheres).

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