トラベラーズセンチュリークラブ (TTC)ってなんやねん!327カ国あるってどういうことやねん!
2019.04.18
世界100カ国以上回った人のみが加盟できる旅行愛好会、その名も「トラベラーズセンチュリークラブ(通称 TTC)」。
世界中の旅好きが集まった非営利法人で、現在の会員数は1,400人を超えるそうです。
そんな謎の組織、トラベラーズセンチュリークラブについて紹介したいと思います。
トラベラーズセンチュリークラブへの入会条件
100カ国以上回っており、初期手数料(100ドル)と年会費(50ドル)を支払えば加盟できます。
「100カ国回っているってどうやって証明できるの?」と思い、申し込み用紙を確認したところ、申し込み用紙に行った国名をチェックするだけでした。
これ、実質100カ国行っていなくても、お金さえ払えば加盟できそうです。(当然、やっていませんが)
50カ国を回ると「仮会員」もある
100カ国だけでなく、50カ国回れば「仮会員」という形で加盟できます。
仮会員の場合、年会費は通常通りかかりますが、初期手数料は100カ国を回って正規会員になったタイミングで支払うとのことです。
トラベラーズセンチュリークラブへ加盟した際のメリット・デメリット
トラベラーズセンチュリークラブのメリット・デメリットについてまとめました。
【TTC加盟メリット1】世界の秘境に行ったツワモノと情報交換できる
世界屈指の旅行好きが訪れる土地の情報交換や、会員が講演するセミナーに参加できます。
旅を愛するツワモノの経験談を聞けるのは非常に興味深いですね。
【TTC加盟メリット2】TTCオリジナルピンがもらえる
TTC正規会員限定(100カ国以上回った人)で、TTCのロゴが施されたピンが10ドルでもらえます。
さらに、回った国の数によって特別な色のピンが購入(8ドル)できます。
シルバー | 150カ国以上 |
---|---|
ゴールド | 200カ国以上 |
プラチナ | 250カ国 |
ダイヤモンド | 300カ国 |
ダイヤモンドピンはトラベラーズセンチュリークラブ内でも一目置かれるピンです。
【TTC加盟デメリット】年会費がかかる
初期費用が100ドル、年会費が85ドル(アメリカ在住の方は75ドル)かかります。
まあ、年中旅行できる経済的な体力がある方にとってははした金かもしれないですが。
しかし、この年会費ですが、4ヶ月に1回行われるフォトコンテストで受賞すると免除されます。
フォトコンテストはお題に沿った写真で競い合うもので、受賞する写真は「綺麗さ」よりも「レア度」が重要視されるようです。
トラベラーズセンチュリークラブにまつわる面白記録
327カ国を制覇したのはたったの24人
アメリカのwikipediaの情報なので正確かどうかはわかりませんが、325カ国を制覇したのはたったの24人だそうです。
327カ国の中には商業用の飛行機や船が訪れない国もあるため、その場合は複数人で船をチャーターしていくそうです。
そこまでして国を回るのはもはや執念ですね。
トラベラーズセンチュリークラブの最年少は2歳8ヶ月
なんと、2歳8ヶ月で世界100カ国を回ったという羨ましい記録、、、
単純計算で、1ヶ月3カ国回った計算になります。とんでもないですね。
トラベラーズセンチュリークラブの国一覧【327カ国】
最後に、トラベラーズセンチュリークラブが定義する327カ国を一挙ご紹介します!
日本の沖縄と小笠原諸島は1つの国として認識されています。
- Abkhazia
- Abu Dhabi
- Admiralty Islands (see Bismarck Archipelago)
- Afghanistan
- Agalega (see Mauritius & Deps.)
- Aitutaki (see Cook Islands)
- Ajman
- Aland Islands
- Alaska
- Albania
- Aldabra (see Zil Elwannyen Sesel)
- Alderney (see Guernsey & Deps.)
- Algeria
- Amirante Island (see Zil Elwannyen Sesel)
- Amsterdam(see French Southern & Antarctic Territory)
- Anatolia (see Turkey in Asia)
- Andaman-Nicobar Islands
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla
- Anjouan (see Comoro Islands)
- Ankara (see Turkey in Asia)
- Antigua & Barbuda
- Argentina
- Argentine Antarctica
- Armenia
- Aruba
- Ascension
- Atafu (see Tokelau Islands)
- Austral (see French Polynesia)
- Australia
- Australian Antarctic Territory
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Azores Islands
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Balearic Islands
- Bali (see Lesser Sunda Islands)
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Barbuda(see Antigua)
- Basutoland (see Lesotho)
- Bear Island (see Spitsbergen)
- Bechuanaland (see Botswana)
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bequia (see St. Vincent and Grenadines)
- Bermuda
- Bhutan
- Bismarck Archipelago
- Bolivia
- Bonaire
- Bonin (see Ogasawara)
- Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Bougainville (see Bismarck Archipelago)
- Bouvet (see Norwegian Antarctica)
- Brazil
- Brazzaville (see Congo, Republic of)
- British Antarctic Territory
- British Guiana (see Guyana)
- British Honduras (see Belize)
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- British Somaliland (see Somaliland)
- British Togoland (see Ghana)
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burma (see Myanmar)
- Burundi (Urundi)
- Cabinda
- Caicos (see Turks & Caicos)
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Canary Islands
- Canouan (see St. Vincent and Grenadines)
- Canton (see Line/Phoenix Islands)
- Cape Verde Islands
- Caroline Islands (see Micronesia, Fed.States of)
- Carriacou (see Grenada & Deps.)
- Cayman Islands
- Celebes (See Sulawesi)
- Central African Republic
- Ceuta (see Morocco,Spanish)
- Ceylon (see Sri Lanka)
- Chad
- Chagos Archipeloago (see British Indian Ocean Territory)
- Channel Islands (see Guernsey & Deps. and Jersey)
- Chatham Islands
- Chile
- Chilean Antarctic Territory
- China, People’s Republic of
- Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)
- Christmas Island (Pacific Ocean: see Line/Phoenix Islands)
- Chuuk (see Micronesia, Fed.States of )
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo, Democratic Republic of (Kinshasa)
- Congo, Republic of (Brazzaville)
- Cook Islands
- Corfu (see Ionian Islands)
- Corsica
- Costa Rica
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Crete
- Croatia
- Crozet (see French Southern & Antarctic Lands)
- Cuba
- Curacao
- Cyclades (see Greek Aegean Islands)
- Cyprus, British Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia
- Cyprus, Republic of
- Cyprus, Turkish Fed. State of
- Czech Republic
- Dahomey (see Benin)
- Davis (see Australian Antarctic Territory)
- Denmark
- Diego Garcia (see British Indian Ocean Territory)
- Djibouti
- Dodecanese Islands (see Greek Aegean Islands)
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Dubai
- Dzaoudzi (see Mayotte)
- Easter Island
- Ecuador
- Eire (see Ireland, Republic of)
- Egypt in Africa
- Egypt in Asia (Sinai Peninsula)
- El Salvador
- Ellice Islands (see Tuvalu)
- Enderbury (see Line/Phoenix Islands)
- England
- Eniwetok (see Marshall Islands, Republic of)
- Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
- Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni, Bata)
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Fakaofu (see Tokelau)
- Falkland Islands
- Falkland Islands Dependencies (see South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, British Antarctic Territory)
- Fanning (see Line/Phoenix Islands)
- Faroe Islands
- Farquhar (see Zil Elwannyen Sesel)
- Fernando de Noronha
- Fernando Poo (see Equatorial Guinea: Bioko)
- Fiji Islands
- Finland
- France
- French Guiana
- French Polynesia
- French Southern & Antarctic Lands
- Fujairah
- Funafuti (see Tuvalu)
- Futuna (see Wallis & Futuna Islands)
- Gabon
- Galapagos Islands
- Gambia
- Gambier (see French Polynesia)
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Gibraltar
- Gilberts (see Kiribati)
- Glorioso (see French Southern & Antarctic Lands)
- Gold Coast (see Ghana)
- Graham Land (see British Antarctic Territory)
- Grand Comoro (see Comoros)
- Greece
- Greek Aegean Islands
- Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat)
- Grenada & Dependencies
- Grenadines (see Grenada & Deps., St. Vincent and Grenadines)
- Guadalcanal (see Solomon Islands)
- Guadeloupe & Deps.
- Guam
- Guatemala
- Guernsey & Deps.
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Hainan Island
- Haiti
- Hawaiian Islands
- Heard (see Australian Antarctic Territory)
- Herm (see Guernsey & Deps.)
- Herzegovina (see Bosnia & Herzegovina)
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia (Java)
- Indonesian Borneo (see Kalimantan)
- Ionian Islands
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland, Republic of
- Ireland, Northern
- Irian Jaya (see Papua)
- Isle of Man
- Israel
- Istanbul (see Turkey in Europe)
- Italian Somaliland (see Somalia)
- Italy
- Ivory Coast (see Côte d’Ivoire)
- Iwo Jima (see Ogasawara)
- Izmir (see Turkey in Asia)
- Jamaica
- Jammu and Kashmir (see Kashmir)
- Japan
- Java (see Indonesia (Java)
- Jeju Island
- Jersey
- Jordan
- Juan Fernandez Islands
- Kalaallit Nunaat (see Greenland)
- Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo)
- Kaliningrad
- Kashmir
- Kazakhstan
- Keeling (see Cocos (Keeling) Islands)
- Kenya
- Kerguelen (see French Southern & Antarctic Lands)
- Kinshasa (see Congo, Democratic Republic of the)
- Kiribati
- Korea, North (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)
- Korea, South (Republic of Korea)
- Kosovo
- Kosrae (see Micronesia, Fed.States of )
- Kuwait
- Kwajalein (see Marshall Islands, Republic of)
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lakshadweep
- Lampedusa
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Leeward Islands, French (see Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Guadeloupe)
- Leeward Islands, Netherlands (see Saba & Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten)
- Lesotho
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Line/Phoenix Islands (Palmyra, Fanning, Christmas, Canton, Enderbury)
- Lithuania
- Lord Howe Island
- Loyalty Islands (see New Caledonia & Deps.)
- Luxembourg
- Macau
- Macedonia
- Macquarie (see Australian Antarctic Territory)
- Madagascar
- Madeira
- Majuro (see Marshall Islands, Republic of)
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Mallorca (see Balearic Islands)
- Malta
- Maluku Islands
- Margarita Island (see Nueva Esparta)
- Marie Galante (see Guadeloupe & Deps.)
- Mariehamn (see Aland Islands)
- Marquesas Islands
- Marshall Islands, Republic of
- Martinique
- Mauritania
- Mauritius & Deps. (Agalega, St. Brandon)
- Mawson (see Australian Antarctic Territory)
- Mayotte (Dzaoudzi)
- Melilla (see Morocco,Spanish)
- Mexico
- Micronesia, Fed.States of
- Midway Island
- Minorca (see Balearic Islands)
- Miquelon (see St. Pierre & Miquelon)
- Moheli (see Comoros)
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Montserrat
- Morocco
- Morocco,Spanish (Ceuta, Melilla)
- Mozambique
- Myanmar (Burma)
- Nakhchivan
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- Netherlands Antilles (see Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba & St. Eustatius, Sint Maarten)
- Netherlands Guiana (see Suriname)
- Nevis (see St. Kitts & Nevis)
- New Britain (see Bismarck Archipelago)
- New Caledonia & Deps.
- Nueva Esparta (Margarita Island)
- New Georgia (see Solomon Islands)
- New Hebrides Islands (see Vanuatu)
- New Ireland (see Bismarck Archipelago)
- New Zealand
- New Zealand Antarctica
- Nicaragua
- Nicobar Islands (see Andaman-Nicobar Islands)
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Niue
- Norfolk Island
- North Borneo (see Sabah)
- Northern Marianas (Saipan, Tinian)
- Northern Rhodesia (see Zambia)
- Norway
- Norwegian Dependencies (Norwegian Antarctica)
- Noumea (see New Caledonia & Deps.)
- Nukualofa (see Tonga)
- Nunaat (see Greenland)
- Nyasaland (see Malawi)
- Ocean Island (see Kiribati)
- Ogasawara (Bonin, Volcano Island, Iwo Jima)
- Okinawa (see Ryukyu Islands)
- Oman
- Pago Pago (see Samoa, American)
- Pakistan
- Palau, Republic of
- Palestine
- Palmer Peninsula (see Argentine Antarctica, British Antarctic Territory, and Chilean Antarctic Territory)
- Panama
- Papua Indonesia (see Papua (Irian Jaya)
- Papua (Irian Jaya)
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Penrhyn (see Cook Islands)
- Peru
- Philippines
- Phoenix/Line Islands (see Line/Phoenix Islands)
- Pitcairn Island
- Pohnpei (see Micronesia, Fed.States of )
- Poland
- Portugal
- Prince Edward Island
- Principe (see Sao Tome & Principe)
- Providencia (see San Andres & Providencia)
- Puerto Rico
- Qatar
- Queen Maud Land (see Norwegian Dependencies)
- Rarotonga (see Cook Islands)
- Ras Al Khaimah
- Redonda (see Antigua & Barbuda)
- Reunion
- Rhodes (see Greek Aegean Islands)
- Rio Muni (see Equatorial Guinea: Rio Muni)
- Robinson Crusoe Island (see Juan Fernandez Islands)
- Rodriguez Island
- Romania
- Ross Dependency (see New Zealand Antarctica)
- Russia
- Russia in Asia (incl. Siberia)
- Rwanda
- Ryukyu Islands
- Saba & Sint Eustatius
- Sabah (No. Borneo)
- Saint-Barthélemy (St. Barts)
- Saint Brandon (see Mauritius & Dependencies)
- Saint Croix (see Virgin Islands, U.S.)
- Saint Eustatius (see Saba & Sint Eustatius)
- Saint Helena
- Saint John (see Virgin Islands, U.S.)
- Saint Kitts & Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint-Martin (France)
- Saint Paul (see French Southern & Antarctic Lands)
- Saint Pierre & Miquelon
- Saint Thomas (see Virgin Islands, U.S.)
- Saint Vincent and Grenadines
- Saipan (see Northern Marianas)
- Samoa (Apia)
- Samoa, American (Pago Pago)
- San Andres & Providencia
- San Marino
- Sao Tome & Principe
- Sarajevo (see Bosnia & Herzegovina)
- Sarawak
- Sardinia
- Sark (see Guernsey & Deps.)
- Saudi Arabia
- Scotland
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sharjah
- Siberia (see Russia in Asia)
- Sicily
- Sierra Leone
- Sikkim
- Singapore
- Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Socotra
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia (ex-Italian Somaliland)
- Somaliland (ex-British)
- South Africa
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- South Orkney (see British Antarctica)
- South Sandwich (see South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
- South Sudan
- South Shetland (see British Antarctica)
- Southern Rhodesia (see Zimbabwe)
- Spain
- Spanish Sahara (see Western Sahara)
- Spitsbergen (Svalbard, Bear Island)
- Sri Lanka
- Srpska
- Sudan
- Sulawesi (Celebes, Indonesia)
- Sumatra (Indonesia)
- Suriname
- Svalbard (see Spitsbergen)
- Swaziland (eSwatini)
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Tahiti (see French Polynesia)
- Taiwan. R.O.C.
- Tajikistan
- Tanganyika (see Tanzania)
- Tanzania
- Tarawa (see Kiribati)
- Tasmania
- Thailand
- Tibet
- Timor, Indonesia (see Lesser Sunda Islands)
- Timor-Leste
- Tinian (see Northern Marianas)
- Tobago (see Trinidad)
- Togo
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Tortola (see Virgin Islands, British)
- Transnistria
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Tristan da Cunha
- Tromelin (see French Southern and Antarctic Lands)
- Tuamotu (see French Polynesia)
- Tulagi (see Solomon Islands)
- Tunisia
- Turkey in Asia
- Turkey in Europe
- Turkmenistan
- Turks & Caicos Islands
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Ulster (see Ireland, Northern)
- Umm Al Qaiwain
- Union Island (see Tokelau)
- United States (Contiguous)
- Upper Volta (see Burkina Faso)
- Uruguay
- Urundi (see Burundi)
- Uzbekistan
- Vaitapu (see Tuvalu)
- Vanuatu (New Hebrides Islands)
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Virgin Islands, British (Tortola, etc.)
- Virgin Islands, U.S. (St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas)
- Volcano Island (see Ogasawara)
- Wake Island
- Wales
- Wallis & Futuna Islands
- Western Sahara
- Yap (see Micronesia, Fed.States of )
- Yemen
- Yerevan (see Armenia)
- Zambia
- Zanzibar
- Zil Elwannyen Sesel
- Zimbabwe
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