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Travelers' Century Club

Travelers' Century Club
Founded 1954
Location
Members
1,400
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 1,400 members throughout the world. The club has twenty regional chapters in the U.S., two in Canada, and one each in the UK, Germany, and Spain. It holds regular meetings and provides other tools for social networking.

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 2016, the list contains 325 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", based on rules established in 1970. 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.

In 2004, club member Charles Veley was featured in the UK's The Daily Telegraph 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. Some world travelers dispute Veley's claim to be the new World's Most Traveled Man.


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