About Us
About The Travel Coach Network
AI plans trips. Humans create meaning.
The Travel Coach Network (TCN) trains travel coaches around the world who help people use travel as a tool for clarity, confidence, life transitions, personal growth, and meaningful experiences through our ICF accredited certification program.
We believe in adding meaning and purpose to travel experiences by recognizing that there is far more to providing a transformative experience than just the cold hard facts of an itinerary and the transaction of booking trips.
The itinerary becomes easier to automate. The human experience becomes more valuable.
As AI automates more technical work and itinerary building, the skills that matter most when helping people travel; adaptability, curiosity, be present, building trust, empathy, resilience, communication, and emotional intelligence, are what will truly make the experience meaningful. That is what we teach.
Over the past 7 years, the TCN has grown into a global network and platfrom with over 800 travel coaches from more than 41 countries who all specialize in thier own niches including transformation, life coaching, retreats, tours, health and wellness, mindset work, leadership development, travel advisors, and more.
The TCN is building the world’s largest searchable database of Travel Coaches for travelers, companies, and organizations to search for and hire travel coaches for themselves, their employees, and anyone else seeking a Travel Coach.
We are also home to the Travel Coach Certification Program™, the world’s first and only ICF accredited certification program for travel coaches around the world.
The TCN isn’t about us or our Founder. It’s a movement centered on the deep belief that travel changes people, helps us build more meaningful lives, and betters the world overall.
Our vision is big and we’d love to have you join us!
Travel Coaches are the secret ingredient to your corporate wellness program.
Enhance your corporate wellness programs by providing guidance, empowerment, education, and support to your employee’s vacation plans, sabbaticals, voluntourism goals, and more.
Vision
To reshape how travel is talked about, planned, marketed, booked, and sold by adding the emotional and personal appeal to travel experiences. We make the human side of travel more valuable.
Mission
To certify Travel Coaches around the world who help people use travel as a tool for personal growth, life transitions, and meaningful change and create an eco-system of travel coaches, hospitality and tourism brands, and partners who all aim to provide more meaningful travel experiences.
About the Founder
Hi! I’m Sahara Rose
After receiving my degree in Hospitality and Tourism Management in 2010, I was underwhelmed by the lack of careers options that existed in the industry so, I bought a one-way ticket to Europe, packed a backpack, and set off on my solo adventure.
I spent the next 10 years visiting over 84 countries across 6 continents. Throughout my worldly journey, I learned the true reasons why people traveled and realized the value that travel had on our wellbeing, personal life, and work-life.
Traveling was healing for myself as I had always struggled with anxiety. After years of diving into research on the various wellness benefits of travel, I wondered why companies were not valuing travel like people did and why tourism and hospitality brands weren’t tapping into the deeper reasons for why people traveled.
In 2018, I started my Wellness Travel Coaching and Consulting business to educate, support, and help companies embrace the value that all aspects of travel can have on employee wellbeing, business travel wellbeing, and wellness travel experiences in a more holistic way.
A year later, I founded The Travel Coach Network to bridge the gap between the travelers who were seeking specific answers when it came to traveling and the travel experts who could best relate to them.
I always believed that there was far more to travel career than just booking trips or writing about travel. The concept of Travel Coaching came about because travel should be viewed as a tool to help people thrive in their wellbeing, personal life, relationships, professionally, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and more.
I created The Travel Coach Certification Program to train, educate, and certify other travel experts to add depth and meaning to how they help others through travel.
I am a published author of my travel coaching and budget travel book called “Hey You, Just Go!” (available on Amazon), aglobal speaker, TEDx speaker, and have been in over 350+ media outlets for my travel and business expertise including Forbes, Travel Weekly, Conde Nast Traveler, TripAdvisor, CNBC, WISN-12, and CNN Travel.
I was honored to be named one of 2023’s Most Influential Women in Travel by TravelPulse and to also have appeared on Season 8 of Project Pitch It.
Here is my speaker bio:
Sahara Rose De Vore is the Founder and CEO of The Travel Coach Network, and a leading voice on how travel is evolving from recreation into a tool for personal growth, life transitions, and human connection. She speaks on the intersection of AI, identity, and the future of meaningful travel. Sahara went from broke college student to traveling to 84 countries solo to trailblazing a new path in the travel industry. Her company adds the human-centric and emotional approach to how and why we travel. This led her to creating the world’s first and only ICF accredited certification program for travel coaches which as of now has over 800 coaches from 41 countries. Sahara is a published author, global speaker, TEDx speaker, Start-up Investor, and has been in over 350 media outlets for her travel and business expertise including Travel Weekly, Conde Nast Traveler, AFAR, TripAdvisor, CNBC, CNN Travel, and twice in Forbes. Sahara was named one of the Most Influential Women in Travel by TravelPulse in 2023, is on the Advisory Board for The Hotel Guide, a member of the Forbes Travel Guide Speakers Forum and the Women in Hospitality Leadership Alliance, and has also appeared on Season 8 of Project Pitch It.
