How many people have seen 100 countries?
Travelers' Century Club, or TCC, is a club of people who have visited 100 or more countries and territories around the world.The organization was founded in California in 1954 and now has more than 1,400 members worldwide. The club has twenty-one regional chapters in the United States and one each in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Korea, Spain and the United Kingdom. It organizes regular meetings and provides other tools for social networking.RecordsBy 2018, twenty-four members had visited every location on the list. John Clouse of Evansville, Indiana, became the first person to travel to all of the organization's listed countries and was recognized by the 1995 Guinness World Records as the "most traveled man in the world," taking the title from another TCC Club member, Parke G. Thompson.The youngest to join the club was Lani Shea. Shea's parents, Jeff and Novita of Novato, Calif., reported that he reached his 100th country at two years and eight months. He also set a new Guinness World Record in the category of "Youngest person to travel all seven continents" in December 2003, at the age of two years and 307 days. The record currently belongs to Vaidehi Thirrupathy.Indy Nelson of Hayward, California, in 2017, at the age of 24, visited all 193 UN member states in 539 days, becoming the youngest person to visit all sovereign countries.