All-inclusive resort pioneer Club Med, cruise giant Viking and travel industry disruptor Fora each made the coveted TIME100 list of the Most Influential Companies of 2026.
Rebounding aircraft manufacturer Boeing also made this year's list in the Titans category. "In 2025, aerospace giant Boeing outpaced arch-rival Airbus in orders for the first time in seven years," TIME points out.
Club Med was recognized in the Innovators category.
"Once synonymous with beach escapes and bottomless buffets, the all-inclusive resort is showing up in unexpected places—and Club Med is driving the change," said TIME. "The French hospitality giant that pioneered the concept in 1950 has spent the past two decades nudging it steadily upmarket, phasing out its midscale portfolio and focusing exclusively on premium properties, often in more complex categories."
Added Carolyne Doyon, president and CEO of Club Med North America and the Caribbean: "It’s about offering an experience people can’t easily put together on their own."
Both Viking and Fora were recognized among the world's most influential companies in the Disruptors category.
"We have small ships. We don't allow children. We don't have gyms or casinos. We don't nickel and dime people," Viking CEO Torstein Hagen told TIME. "We have a 28-year head start."
The Fora team of Jake Peters (left), Henley Vazquez (center) and Evan Frank (right). (Source: Fora)
Henley Vazquez, co-founder of Fora, said, “Being named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies list is a reflection of what our advisors have built.”
“They are redefining what it means to be a travel advisor today by building modern businesses rooted in expertise, creativity and care,” he added.
Since its inception in 2021, Fora travel advisors have collectively booked over $2.5 billion in sales.
“We believe that the future of travel isn’t less human, it is better equipping humans,” said Jake Peters, Flora’s co-founder and chief product and technology officer.
“Fora was created to equip small business owners with an integrated platform built to modern standards, accessible everywhere and by everyone, with AI embedded at the core [with] human travel advisors supercharged by technology,” he added.
TIME solicited nominations across sectors and polled its global network of contributors, correspondents, and outside experts to create the list. TIME editors then evaluated each on key factors, including impact, innovation, ambition and success.
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