About Visit Austria.com and tourist info
VisitAustria.com no active website
Austria.info
Austria National Tourist Board / Anto
Österreich Werbung / ÖW
Vordere Zollamstr 13
1030 Vienna / Wien
Austria
+43 1 58 8660
mail: info "at" austria.info
more about Austria
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Wikipedia
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Austria is located in the Mountains and has no coastline
12 Unesco World Heritage sites
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History of the website and Tourism Marketing in Austria
Visit Austria.com
Domain registration date: 11-11-1997 see list of first vist domains
Austria.info
Domain registration date: 26-07-2001
Timeline
1896 under the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph (1830 - 1916) was created a Ministry of Railroads
(KuK Eisenbahnministerium)
The Railways Minister
Heinrich von Witteck (1844 - 1930) worked on Tourism Marketing in order to increase traffic of the train network
1917 Foundation of the
"Österreichische Verkehrsbüro"
Verkehrsbuero.com the oldest and largest
Austrian Travel Company.
1955 Foundation of the
Austrian Tourist Board by the Ministry of Economy and the Austrian Wirtschaftskammer
1997 Registration of VisitAustria.com
11-11-1997
A modern internet mystery happened at the same moment.
The exact same day the domain
Visit Luxembourg.com was also registered by the NY based Tourism office from Luxemburg.
As very few Visit domains existed at that time, there is a strong possibility that the person that registered VisitAustria.com had a New York based connection with the person that registered
VisitLuxemburg.com
But this person was probably not from the Austrian
Tourist Representation in New York.
When 6 months later, the national
Tourist Board of Austria decided to create a website the domain VisitAustria.com was not available.
The much less prominent domain
Austria-Tourism.at was registered around 07-05-1998
There is also the possibility that the first owner of VisitAustria.com did not understand the future value of the domain.
1998 The online presence of the Austrian Tourist Board starts with the domain
Austria-Tourism.at
2000 Launch of
VisitAustria.com by the Innsbruck company
Tiscover AG specialised in solutions for
Online-Destination
-Management-Systemen (DMS)
Tiscover is a pioneer in webmarketing in activity since 1991
2001 The idea came up to use a .info domain.
.info was released 26-06-2001
.Info is one of about 1.500 new TLD that were created as an alternative to .com
The Spanish Tourist board did the same and Spain.info was registered 6 days later,
01-08-2001
Some marketing experts beleived
.info would become a serious alternative for the already established .com
Time proved the contrary, today, a quater century later,
.com is the only globally recognised TLD a multitude of new TLDs
(Top Level Domains) have strenghtened the predominance of .com
There are 160 million .com domains and not even 4 million .info domains
.info has become less popular.
Only two national tourist boards,
Austria and Spain are still using it.
Many tourist boards, particularly those aiming for a professional and branded online presence, have shifted away from the generic .info domain in favor of .com
2002 It looks like that the National
Tourist Board has a domain renewal problem with the domain Visit-Austria.at
2005 The historic URL
Austria-Tourism.at is redirected to Austria.info
08-08-2005
2009 VisitAustria.com stops working
For a decade the domain is redirected to
Tiscover.at, later Tiscover.com
2009 Launch of Visit-Austria.at by the Ad Agency Algo
2019 VisitAustria.com falls asleep
Today It is another mystery who ows the valuable
Visit Autria.com domain
The owner seams to be from Austria renewing the domain every year.
Visit Austria.com could turn into a significant international marketing booster for the entire Autrian Tourism Industry.
2025 Global Visit List creats a National Visit List for Austria
GlobalVisitList.com/austria featuring 28 Austrian destinations.
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Austria has borders with 8 countries
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