MAGELLAN TRAVEL INDEX

ABOUT MAGELLAN TRAVEL INDEX

The Atlântico Business School (ABS), a university in Porto, Portugal, built a new index that tracks the achievements of global travelers, and has partnered with the Extraordinary Travel Festival (ETF) to launch this index. Their collaboration aims to make the ETF/ABS Magellan Travel Index (MTI) a leading benchmark for travellers worldwide.

The index is named after the famous Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães in Portuguese), who led the first circumnavigation of the globe from 1519 to 1522, at the service of the kings of Spain. The name was chosen to: 1. Honor the legacy of early explorers, like Magellan and other Portuguese and Spanish navigators, who set out into uncharted territories and, in doing so, kickstarted the age of globalization. and 2. Recognize modern-day explorers, whose adventurous spirit often takes them to remote and challenging regions, echoing the bravery of explorers from centuries past.

The ETF/ABS Magellan Travel Index is based on two main factors, each given equal weight: Quality of Travel (QL) and Quantity of Travel (QT).
Quantity of Travel (QT) is determined by how many regions a traveler has explored, based in the number of countries in the UN and the number of countries/territories in the world according to ISO and the regions of the three most important travel clubs:
• United Nations Member States (UN)
• International Organization for Stardardization (ISO)
• TCC – Travelers’ Century Club (TCC)
• NomadMania
• Most Traveled People (MTP)
Quality of Travel (QL) is evaluated using four key criteria:
• UNESCO Sites: number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites (WHS) visited.
• Cultural Heritage: number of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity experienced.
• SLOW: a Nomadmania index showing how long the user stayed in each country
• Tentative List: number of sites on UNESCO’s Tentative List visited.
• Capitals: number of capitals of countries and territories visited.
• Borders: number of land or sea borders crossed.

The ETF/ABS Magellan Travel Index will be updated and published annually on the ETF website and other partner platforms.

The index value reflects the traveller’s level: the higher the value, the more well-travelled they can consider themselves. Thus, using the index, a traveller can plan their trips considering how each visit affects their index score.
As a secondary objective, the index also allows the creation of a ranking among travellers, which is always a motivating and challenging factor for most extreme travellers. Given that travel is more prevalent today than ever, in the future, once its limitations are overcome, this ranking may be considered the definitive ranking of the greatest travellers of all time.

Year:

Order by:

Rank	Name	Total	Quality	Quantity
1	Michael Runkel	48.02	39.69	56.34
2	João Paulo Peixoto	47.81	38.75	56.87
3	Thomas Buechler	46.18	41.73	50.63
4	Harry Mitsidis	46.07	34.52	57.63
5	Igor Sergeev	45.93	39.80	52.05
6	Sascha Grabow	45.92	36.56	55.28
7	Pawel Krzyk	45.52	35.06	55.97
8	Axel Wacht	45.39	37.65	53.13
9	Nadezda Lazareva	45.27	39.27	51.27
10	Bill Altaffer	42.78	32.69	52.88
11	Hans Thulin	42.16	34.32	49.99
12	Dominique Laurent	41.66	37.53	45.78
13	Ron Perrier	41.13	39.50	42.77
14	Selman Arınç	39.85	35.81	43.90
15	Steve Newcomer	39.83	33.08	46.57
16	Rus Margolin	39.00	30.43	47.57
17	Luis Filipe Gaspar	38.92	27.51	50.32
18	Christopher Pullan	38.91	30.91	46.90
19	Carl-Gustaf Siby	38.87	23.01	54.73
20	Hubert Weissinger	38.78	29.52	48.04
21	Markus Lundgren	38.77	26.82	50.72
22	Shihe Huang	38.32	31.59	45.04
23	Kazuto Matsumoto	38.17	28.43	47.92
24	Mehraj Mahmudov	37.76	26.67	48.84
25	Peter Machin	37.72	28.33	47.12
26	Janie Borisov	37.39	29.27	45.51
27	Valentin Sazhin	37.38	27.67	47.08
28	Charles Veley	37.34	20.62	54.06
29	Frank Rainer	37.21	21.18	53.24
30	Lily Marie West	36.57	30.22	42.91
31	Phillips Connor	35.93	24.90	46.96
32	Geri Winkler	35.84	32.88	38.81
33	David Yang	35.63	25.03	46.22
34	Kari-Matti altari	35.57	18.19	52.94
35	Lillie Echevarria	35.43	28.27	42.59
36	Carlos oyano	35.36	29.95	40.77
37	Gene R Johnson	35.17	30.44	39.89
38	Terry L Johnson	35.15	30.40	39.89
39	Stewart Sheppard	35.09	27.64	42.53
40	Reinhold Ringhofer	35.08	26.12	44.04
41	Rainer Roesky	35.05	31.32	38.77
42	Harri Tuomola	34.51	24.66	44.36
43	Lubos Fellner	34.26	28.05	40.48
44	Kostiantyn Liorek	34.08	26.42	41.74
45	Roman Bruehwiler	34.02	14.83	53.21
46	Carla Zanellini	33.63	29.17	38.08
47	Ben Dowson	33.50	23.41	43.59
48	Dmitry Berezin	33.46	21.28	45.65
49	Michael Doessegger	33.36	22.57	44.16
50	Alberto Campa	33.33	28.57	38.09

Year:

Order by:

Rank	Name	Total	Quality	Quantity
1	Michael Runkel	69.80	43.98	95.61
2	Sascha Grabow	68.62	43.07	94.17
3	Harry Mitsidis	68.56	40.09	97.03
4	Igor Sergeev	68.56	45.50	91.61
5	Thomas Buechler	68.33	46.86	89.80
6	Nadezda Lazareva	67.86	44.57	91.16
7	Axel Wacht	67.81	44.24	91.38
8	Pawel Krzyk	66.99	38.15	95.84
9	Dominique Laurent	64.25	43.55	84.95
10	Bill Altaffer	63.61	35.35	91.87
11	Chris Pullan	62.23	37.19	87.27
12	Janie Borisov	61.89	37.01	86.76
13	Hans Thulin	61.36	35.14	87.58
14	Ron Perrier	61.32	43.45	79.19
15	Shihe Huang	61.19	37.75	84.63
16	Luis Filipe Gaspar	61.03	31.55	90.51
17	Steve Newcomer	60.89	35.83	85.96
18	Mehraj Mahmudov	60.37	28.47	92.26
19	Rus Margolin	60.30	32.87	87.74
20	Selman Arinc	60.28	37.58	82.98
21	Charles A Veley	60.23	23.59	96.86
22	Hubert Weissinger	59.79	32.58	87.00
23	Kazuto Matsumoto	59.62	32.54	86.69
24	Phillips Connor	59.36	31.03	87.70
25	Markus Lundgren	58.93	28.01	89.85
26	Valentin Sazhin	58.92	30.17	87.68
27	Carl Gustaf Siby	58.75	22.99	94.50
28	David Yang	58.39	29.61	87.16
29	Lily Marie West	57.70	34.89	80.51
30	Carlos Useros Moyano	57.35	35.15	79.55
31	Frank Rainer	57.08	22.01	92.16
32	Peter Machin	56.89	28.29	85.49
33	Geri Winkler	56.86	37.82	75.90
34	Lillie Echevarria	56.42	29.90	82.95
35	Lubos Fellner	56.07	31.58	80.55
36	Christoph Heuermann	55.48	28.87	82.08
37	Michael Doessegger	55.29	25.93	84.64
38	Reinhold Ringhofer	55.25	29.44	81.06
39	Roman Bruehwiler	55.24	16.94	93.53
40	Kari-matti Valtari	55.23	18.28	92.18
41	Ben Dowson	55.17	26.35	83.98
42	Darren Mclean	55.12	30.11	80.13
43	Kostiantyn Liorek	55.12	30.20	80.03
44	Artur Anuszewski	55.00	29.98	80.02
45	Rainer Roesky	54.87	35.64	74.11
46	Jürgen Hacker	54.87	31.59	78.16
47	Carla Zanellini	54.75	32.38	77.13
48	Dmitry Berezin	54.65	25.27	84.04
49	Xian Ni An	54.15	29.46	78.85
50	Alberto Campa	54.12	31.87	76.37

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I would like to think of myself as a full time traveler. I have been retired since 2006 and in that time have traveled every winter for four to seven months. The months that I am "home", are often also spent on the road, hiking or kayaking. I hope to present a website that describes my travel along with my hiking and sea kayaking experiences.