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Are you connected to the tourism/travel/hospitality industries or travel media in any way? If so, please specify how (kindly include any relevant company names/Web sites!).: WILLIAM TOMICKI
Editor and Publisher, ENTREE Travel Newsletter
P.O. Box 5148
Santa Barbara, CA 93150

packages to 695 Olive Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93108

Tel. (805) 969-5848
Fax: (805) 969-5849

Senior Editor, Traveler Overseas Magazine
Travel and Food, American International News Syndicate
Contributing Editor, Bel-Air Hotel Magazine
Travel Editor, El Paso Inc.
Travel Editor, Rothschild Presse

Member, Society of American Travel Writers
Member, North American Travel Journalists Association
Member, International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association
Member, The International Travel Writers Alliance

see www.entreenews.com

William Tomicki is Editor and Publisher of ENTREE,
a Santa Barbara-headquartered luxury travel newsletter. He has served in this capacity since 1981. ENTREE is the third oldest travel newsletter in the U.S.

He had a long and distinguished career as a travel columnist for the New York Times Syndicate. Today he serves a dedicated following of world travelers with his rich and colorful insights through a wide range of important media. He has co-authored four travel books and was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature in June of 2006.
William is considered an intrepid traveler, always in search of a new experience. In the course of his 28-year career as a travel writer, he has single-handedly scaled a sacred aboriginal mountain in Australia, lived with Masai warriors in Kenya, danced on the Great Wall of China, climbed to the top of Angkor Wat at sundown, eaten piranhas in the Brazilian Amazon, hunted jaguars in Belize, galloped horses through the royal woods of Versailles, boxed with heavyweight champ Mike Weaver, bicycled through Tuscany, witnessed private voodoo ceremonies in Haiti and ridden elephants at a palace in India.
He is one of a handful of Americans to be knighted by the French as a Chevalier. He also holds the title of "Cavalier" in Portugal, having been enthroned at the Palace in Porto. Tomicki was caught in the historic 1991 coup in Moscow and reported around the world from Red Square. He's played polo with princes, even won a small fortune in Monte Carlo. One night he miraculously ordered all the Champagne from the wine cellar at fashionable Annabel's in London. He has set his gourmet taste buds on alligator, impala and springbok.
In 1967, Mr. Tomicki was elected to membership in the prestigious Explorer's Club based in New York. He was 26 at the time and remains one of the youngest inductees in the club's 103-year history. Mr. Tomicki was named the youngest Vice President in the history of Tiffany & Company, New York, in 1969. He went on to direct the marketing for John's Island, the prestigious 3000-acre residential community in Vero Beach, Florida from 1971 to 1978. He then proceeded to become Vice President of Sotheby’s International Real Estate, marketing luxury properties in Palm Beach and the Caribbean.
By all yardsticks, William Tomicki seems to have lived a charmed life. In 2007, he acquired land in Devon, England that gave him the title of Lord Millcombe. In 2008 he dramatically won $1,000,000 in the lottery.
Tomicki has been called "the Rabelais of travel writing." Mr. Tomicki graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and served with the U.S. Air Force Reserves during the Vietnam War. When not traveling the world in search of adventure, he studies fencing.

On which destinations & travel topics can you advise members especially well?: Europe, Asia, South America

What destinations are you most interested in learning about?: All destinations

Other travel / language expertise?: Food

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At 4:16pm on August 6, 2009, Stacey Udell said…: Need info on the new John Besh restaurant opening in New Orleans at the National WWII Museum?

At 6:30pm on August 5, 2009, Sarah Harris said…: Thats very strange indeed! Just to confirm it is sarah.harris@courthouse-hotel.com but otherwise you can reach me on harris.sarah75@gmail
perhaps there were some glitches with the system today. Thanks for pointing that out.

At 5:54am on August 5, 2009, Sarah Harris said…: Hello from London! I am the Group PR and Communications Manager for 3 gorgeous London hotels including The Bentley Waldorf Astoria, The Courthouse Doubletree by Hilton and the Washington Mayfair. It would be great to discuss upcoming story opportunities with you some time soon.

At 10:19am on August 3, 2009, EnLinea Media said…: Good morning, William, and welcome to go-lo! It's wonderful to have a travel journalist of your background and experience with us -- and we think you'll find our site productive as well as interesting and enjoyable.

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