beach awards 2011

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Introducing the Beach Tomato Awards 2011

Ladies and gentlemen, let us reveal the first ever Beach Tomato Awards 2011 launched by our sister website, Beach Tomato. Naming the best in beach fashion, beach beauty and beaches around the world, the Beach Tomato Awards will showcase the best of the beach this year.

Combining the Beach Tomato team and industry experts to form a judging panel, June will be spent deliberating the 15 different categories to announce final winners on 28th June 2011.

Alongside a judging panel of industry experts this is your chance to cast your vote in the People’s Choice Award categories to nominate the places and products that make the world’s best beaches worth bragging about. Don’t forget to drop your email address when you vote for a chance to win a very special Beach Tomato goody bag.

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steve mccurry: exclusive

boy in bombay

click on the image above for more inspiring photos…

Clear those coffee tables, have we got a gem for you…

One of the most admired and talked about photo journalists of our generation; Steve McCurry the intrepid photographer has released his eagerly awaited limited edition collection showcasing his most poignant shots that have captured and intrigued the world over.

One only need mention that shot ‘the green eyed Afghan girl’, a haunting yet outstandingly beautiful example of how photography has the ability to conjure up emotions and surpasses our imaginations.  We all love to travel and this collection of shots is the closest thing to transporting you right there. Desk-side wanderlust, bring it.

With only 3,000 copies available this master piece published by Phaidon will be snapped faster than you can say cheese.

And you all you special friends of Black Tomato quote this code: BT20CP for 20% of the original price. Click here for more information.

Boy in mid Flight India

Procession of Nuns Burma

Kuchi Nomads Afghanista

Flower seller India

Pilgrim Tibet

Boy at festival India

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babbles top 25 for family travel

This is beach

life’s a beach…

Like a proud big brother we are happy to announce that our sister website Beach Tomato has been nominated for Babble’s Top 25 Travel Blogs For Families.

Click here and take a peek why…

(5 votes, average: 4.20 out of 5)

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calling all adrenaline afficionados

capture what you will with the playsport

Not ones for the shy and retiring experiences here at Black Tomato we love the outrageous, the dare-devilish, and the downright exhilarating. Think bungee jumping James Bond style in Switzerland, volcano surfing in Nicaragua, traversing the Peruvian Andes on a motor bike, these kind of jaunts need to be precision captured right? And instantly shared for all to see (and be super envious of).

tough and loveable

We’ve found this nifty little camera that packs some serious punch. Let the Kodak Playsport brings out your rebellious side. What’s so great about it we here you say? Let us explain…

With as much as an appetite for adventure as you do, the Kodak Playsport isn’t afraid to get dirty or wet. Like the award winning first generation the new Kodak Playsport Zx5 shrugs off dirt and dunks of up to 3m, but ups the ante by adding a wider angle lens and shock-proofing from drops of up to 1.5m. And that’s while packing the same awesome Full HD 1080p shooting skills, plus improved focusing (including macro), flat-screen connectivity via the bundled HDMI cable and on-camera editing.

Snap, upload, and share. The Kodak Playsport’s built-in software allows you to share videos and photos of you tearing through the surf, and gliding along the slopes on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube as soon as you touch down back on earth with just one push of a button.

Rugged, resistant and bursting with technology its sleek, sexy and comes in an array of eye-catching hues from electric blue to sunset orange. Click here to see the Playsport in action.

Kodak PlaySport ZX5
RRP £149.99
Available now at Amazon

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the boy did us proud

We’re not ones to blow our own trumpet but we’ve got a bit of good news to share with you today. We’re all really chuffed that our own Tommy Marchant, co-founder of Black Tomato, won a rather prestigious award last night for ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ at The British Travel Industry Awards do last night.

To win this in a room full of the best in the business (we think) is really something and big big thanks to all the powers that be who decided that it was Black Tomato’s night. Thanks also to the team at BT who mix in a huge amount of love to make things happen.

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2009, that was the year that was

With 2010 fast approaching what a year it’s been. We started 2009 with the mantra: ‘learn new things about the world and re-discover your joie de vivre’. So hey, that’s what we’ve done.

We checked out 2009’s ‘MUST SEE’ destinations, Syria and the Galapagos (to name a few) and lived out this years ‘MUST-DO’ experience by hiking the intrepid Black cat trail. Sally reported via video from the Sossusvlei, Carolyn got lost at the end of the Earth and Katie took a trip of Biblical proportions. And that’s not even mentioning the Ninjas we fought, the parajets we flew and the marathons we ran (ok, only Jim managed that one).

We’ve delved deeper than ever before and truly got under the skin of Mexico and Australia, sent journalists meandering down the Mekong Delta and took it back to the ‘old school’ with our offline newsletter ‘Cuttings’ – trust us, it’ll help brighten your commute.

Important lessons have been learnt: Tommy can survive without his BlackBerry, but only thanks to the beauty of Brazil’s beaches, and some places are just a little too good to give away – at least for the time being.

We’ve twittered and blogged our travel thoughts away, been lucky enough to win some coveted awards
and even found time to take on some detective work to uncover true gems to bring you some fresh ideas for 2010. (all to be revealed ealry January).

But most IMPORTANTLY, we sent so many of you guys off to some of the planet’s most jaw dropping places. And that, without a doubt, is what matters most. Will we be able to surpass this next year? Definitely.

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black tomato wins best travel website award

Seville last weekend saw the annual Observer, Guardian & Guardian Unlimited Travel Awards.

Last year at the awards in Cape Town Black Tomato won Best Travel Website. A big surprise that left us on a high until, well about 10pm last Sunday when we won the Best Travel Website Award for this year as well….Cue massive surprise and then a flurry of celebrations late into the night which saw the three founders of Black Tomato introduce the “gong” to many of the Seville bars. The only bigger surprise was that the award made it back.

It’s perfect timing as well. Just as the days have begun to get darker we were in need of a pick me up in the Black Tomato offices and the award has left the office with permanent smiles and boundless levels of energy all week. ‘The Best Travel Website Award’ – our office equivalent of the Scandinavian light boxes for those dark days ahead…

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a sumptuous website…

Delighted to have been recognised in The Times top travel websites list. The description is below and whilst thrilled with the kind words, trust us, although ‘almost unnecessary’, the holidays still beat the website…

“A sumptuous website that's so well presented it's almost unnecessary to go on holiday at all. A very intuitive menu system helps you find the right holiday, read about it, get excited, tinker with it, then book it all from the comfort of your armchair.”

BT

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gq top 100 things

We can’t think of anywhere we’d rather sit than next to funny man Will Ferrell star of the forth coming film Stranger Than Fiction, and Tom Davies creator and designer of bespoke spectacles. Luckily that’s exactly where we have found ourselves, add to that the fact that we are positioned next to them as part of GQ’s 100 

Best Things In The World, we are to say the least, absolutely stoked. A big thank you to the best Men’s mag in the world.

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