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FOR your next vacation, forget about taking inspiration from Instagram. You're going to go where nobody has been before, on a trip that nobody has ever taken - and that nobody after you will ever take again.

That's the promise of Blink, a new ephemeral vacation service that the high-end travel outfitter Black Tomato launched on Thursday.

Here's how it works: you 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. …