William Tomicki

William Tomicki is a travel writer. He was called "a true Renaissance gentleman about whom there is an air of danger" by Vanity Fair Magazine.

Personal life
Tomicki is a 1962 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. He served with the U.S. Air Force Reserves during the Vietnam War. Today, his hobbies include world travel, polo, painting, fencing (read about one of his duels here), and writing long letters to people he does not know. Tomicki maintains a large art collection and owns one of the world's largest collections of vintage mustard pots.

Tomicki was given land in Devon, England in 2007, assuming the title of Lord Millcombe. In 2008, he won $1,000,000 in the lottery.

In 1966 he married Barbara Daugherty of El Paso, Texas. They have two sons, Theron and Hadley.

Career
William Tomicki is a Santa Barbara-based travel writer and the editor/publisher of ENTREE, a luxury travel newsletter founded in 1981. Before ENTREE, he was a popular travel columnist for publications such as the New York Times Syndicate, the Bel-Air Hotel Magazine and the American-International News Syndicate. The Los Angeles Times, El Paso Inc. and Private Clubs Magazine also have featured his work, and he played a major role as a founding editor of San Francisco Magazine, Traveler Overseas Magazine and LA STYLE. He has co-authored four travel books and was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature in June 2006. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Tomicki served as Executive Vice President of the Kimberly-Dormann Corporation in New York. He has also studied at Harvard University. In 2012, Mr. Tomicki attended Christ Church College at Oxford University to study the human brain,

Before shifting his career to writing, Mr. Tomicki was named the youngest Vice President in the history of Tiffany & Company, New York, in 1969. From 1971 to 1978 he served as Director of Sales and Marketing for John's Island in Vero Beach, Florida. He then proceeded to become Vice President of Sotheby’s International Real Estate, marketing luxury properties in Palm Beach and the Caribbean.

Mr. Tomicki is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers, the North American Travel Journalists Association, the International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association and the International Travel Writers Alliance. In 1977, he was admitted as a member to The Travelers Club in Paris.

Tomicki serves as President of the Montecito Polo Club, http://www.montecitopoloclub.com.

Awards
In addition to the honor of being knighted by the French as a Chevalier he holds the title of "Cavalier" in Portugal.

In 1967 at age 26, Mr. Tomicki was elected to membership in The Explorers Club and remains today as one of the youngest inductees in the club's 100-plus year history.

Mr. Tomicki and ENTREE were recently featured on Santa Barbara Entrepreneur.com He was profiled and called "part philosopher, part confidant, and always practical in guiding the well-heeled traveler" in the January-February 2013 issue of 805 Living Magazine, see copy of this article.