For your next vacation, forget about taking inspiration from Instagram. You're going where no one has been before, on a trip no one has ever taken - and that no one after you will ever take again. That's the promise of Blink, a new ephemeral vacation service that high-end UK travel outfitter Black Tomato launched this week. Pick a country or region, and Black Tomato will find a pristine parcel of land on which to build you a fully customised pop-up hotel, complete with staff and meals and excursions. You choose everything from the view to the bed linen to the bottles in your pop-up wine cellar. It's tailor-made travel in the most literal way ever. Tom Marchant, co-founder of Black Tomato, conceived of Blink as a response to the traction he saw from pop-up retail concepts. "Temporary experiences really excite people," he said. "They create a sense of urgency." Those who create a trip using Blink will have - by Marchant's calculations - more than 750billion total trip combinations to ...
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