In Austria the Visit phenomenons
started quite late.

When the national tourist board decided
to create a website,
the domain Visit Austria.com
was already registered
so they ended up using
a "new" Tld
that was designed in 2001
for those that had missed to get .com.

.info
was launched with a significant promotion budgets.
It was sucessful at the start
Howether soon other Tlds arrived
and the ".info fashion" declined.

Today the .info aged badly
It carries outdated branding wibes
and does not signal prestige

Many website have migrated
to .com
or a national ccTLD like .at

.com
the code of the inventors of the Internet
is getting stronger and stronger

Other time several Austrian destinations
missed the opportunity
to modernise their internet address,
so today their websites look "outdated"
even though content behind the URL
is of good quality .



2015 Private people from Bad Gastein created
Visit Bad Gastein.com
to attract tourrist
to the famous Tourist Resort.



2021 Bregenz was the first DMO
that was able to get the
valuable Visit Bregenz.com domain.
The domain was difficult to get
and the story behind the domain
is interesting

The Bregenz DMO also owns VisitBregenz.at
redirected to VisitBregenz.com








The "Visit Phenomenon" started during
the early years of the Internet
between California, Britain and Paris.
1995 the first Visit Site came alive in California,
soon followed by other destinations where Internet was born.

A global fashion was launched
Visit+[destination].com

.
Check out the different "Visit" sites !
Which one do you prefer ?

Please contact us
if you edit a beautiful "visit" site
missing on the Global Visit List.