Every great idea, Every great thing that ever happened to humanity was born out of the vision of one man. Premium travel company, VOMOS that is beginning to define the landscape of luxury and private travel was born through the eye of one man called Mark McNeil, an African-American who saw a need and moved to fulfill it.
According to McNeil, he was into entertainment and spending a lot of money in transporting artists from venue to venue. It was along this line something clicked and started the process that led to the birth of VOMOS, which started in measured but sure steps.
“I initially got into the entertainment business prior to being in the premium traveling industry, specifically nightlife. I was spending a lot of money. I could see that I was bringing in artists for $15,000 to perform a gig. When I looked at the rider and the ground transportation taking them from New York and back, it was costing me a quarter of what I paid them.
“So, I made the decision to purchase an SUV and a van to eliminate that cost of allocating money to a limo agency. I have always been a car fanatic; I would purchase an Escalade or a Mercedes S600 to transport these artists around. They began to inquire about possibly having these same cars in their music videos. That led to requests inquiring about using the cars for their weddings and prom nights. After that I thought to myself: this can turn into a business. After conducting some research to see if there were any other similar luxury businesses out there (this was back in 2003), there were maybe two or three in the country. That sparked the idea to get into the luxury and exotic rental car space.
“Later, I noticed that the same clients that were renting my cars also flew private and rented houses in the Hamptons. That all-in-one business model that I successfully ran for many years was called Premier Luxury Rentals. We offered private jets, vacation homes, exotic cars, limousines and yacht charters,” he said in an interview.
McNeil founded VOMOS in 2016 after running Premier Luxury Rentals from 2003 to 2018 and right around 2012 he started to see companies like Airbnb, Uber and VRBO popping up online and not owning any inventory, yet they were receiving insane evaluations
“I was sitting with $100,000 in monthly car payments. I started to research and discovered the digital space was the next big thing. You do not necessarily own any inventory, but it is about creating a platform where people can come from all over and use these types of services. I decided to take all my years of collecting contacts and turned it into what is now VOMOS. I called it the first U.S. solution that focuses solely on high-end luxury services. You have different companies like Airbnb, Uber, Wheels Up and Turo, and they are all market leaders in specific sectors. VOMOS brings all of these services under one roof,” he recalled.
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