Travelers' Century Club

Travelers' Century Club
Founded 1954
Location
Members
 2,000
Mission World travel: The passport to peace through understanding
Website travelerscenturyclub.org

The Travelers' Century Club, or TCC, is a club for people who have visited 100 or more of the world's countries and territories.

The organization was founded in California in 1954 and now has more than 2,000 members throughout the world.[2] The club has sixteen regional chapters in the U.S., two in Canada, and one each in the UK and Germany.[3] It holds regular meetings and arranges tours to remote destinations.

Membership eligibility and the list

The TCC maintains a list of countries and territories by which initial membership and milestone recognition is determined. The list includes not only sovereign states but also certain territories, exclaves and island groups. As of 1 January 2014, the list contains 324 such territories. The club literature notes that "although some are not actually countries in their own right, they have been included because they are removed from parent, either geographically, politically or ethnologically",[4] based on rules established in 1970.[5] The designation of what qualifies to be on the list is very roughly based on the amateur radio DXCC award criteria for working 100 "entities."

Anyone who has visited 100 or more of the places on the list is eligible to join. The club has no requirements as to how long the traveler must have stayed in a country to qualify.

Records

Controversies

In 2004, club member Charles Veley was featured in the UK's Daily Telegraph[11] as the new holder of the Guinness world record for World's Most Travelled Man, but this was never reflected in the Guinness Book of World Records. Instead Guinness retired the category citing lack of an objective standard for the title.[10][12] Some world travelers dispute Veley's claim to be the new World's Most Traveled Man.[6][13][14]

References

  1. 1 2 "History of the Travelers' Century Club". Travelers' Century Club. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  2. ↑ Stachiew, Mark (5 December 2012). "Checking off your bucket list may help you earn membership in the Travelers’ Century Club". Postmedia News. Archived from the original on 6 August 2013.
  3. ↑ "TCC Chapters". Travelers' Century Club.
  4. ↑ "List of TCC Countries". Travelers' Century Club.
  5. ↑ "TCC Rules for Determining Country & Territory Status". Travelers' Century Club.
  6. 1 2 Page, David (September 2009). "The Battle to be the World's Most Traveled Man". Men's Journal. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  7. ↑ McCarthy, Michael (June 2004). "The Man Who Has Been Everywhere". International Travel News. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  8. ↑ "The Century Club Turns Travel Collecting Into A High Art Form". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  9. ↑ "Youngest Person to Visit all Seven Continents". Guinness Records. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  10. 1 2 Stein, Eliot (5 June 2013). "Charles Veley: The World's Most Traveled Man?". Washintonian. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  11. ↑ Fogle, Ben (8 March 2004). "The one million dollar travelling man". The Daily Telegraph (London). Retrieved 26 May 2010.
  12. ↑ Guinness Book of World Records - all years up to and including 2007.
  13. ↑ Flinn, John (29 August 2010). "I've Been Everywhere, Man / The title, 'World's Most Traveled Man' may be contested, but covering 518 countries in five years should put Charles Veley on the map". The San Francisco Chronicle.
  14. ↑ Jennings, Ken (22 September 2011). "The World's Most Traveled Man: How wanderlust turned into a competitive sport". Slate. Retrieved 14 February 2015.

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