more about Austria
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About Visit Belgium.com
and the Belgium Tourist Board

Visit Belgium
Tourist Office
split into 3 different entities


Visit Brussels
Rue Royale 2-4
1000 Brussels
Belgium
+32 2 513 8940
Brussels Info place (BIP) open to the public

mail: tourist "at" visit.brussels
Visit Brussels.com

instagram: @visitbrussels
youtube: youtube.com/bruxellestourisme
facebook: fb.com/Visitbrussels
X: x.com/visitbrussels
linkedin: linkedin.com/company/visitbrussels

Visit Flanders
Grasmarket 61
1000 Brussels
Belgium
+32 2 504 0300

mail: info "at" toerismevlaanderen.be

instagram: @visitflanders
youtube: youtube.com/bvisitflanders
facebook: fb.com/visitflanders
X: x.com/visitflanders
linkedin: linkedin.com/company/visitflanders

Visit Wallonia
Avenue Comte de Smet de Nayer 14
5000 Namur
Belgium
+32 81 84 41 00

mail: info "at" visitwallonia.be

instagram: @visitwallonia
youtube: youtube.com/visitwallonia
facebook: fb.com/Visitwallonia
X: x.com/visitwallonia
linkedin: linkedin.com/company/visitwallonia

more about Belgium
Phone Book of the World
Wikipedia

Belgium has a 65 km coastline
along the North Sea
16 Unesco World Heritage sites



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Top 10 Tourist Attractions
of Belgium

1) Grand Place / Grote Markt in Brussels
2) Bruges Historic Center
3) Atomium, Brussels
4) Ghent's Gravensteen
5) Basilica of the Holy Blood, Brugge

6) Meuse Valley
7) Waterloo Battlefield
8) Manneken Pis, Brussels
9) Antwerp Cathedral
10) Ardennes Forests




History of the website
and Tourism Marketing
in Belgium
Visit Belgium.com
Domain registration date: 22-07-1997

VisitFlanders.com
Domain registration date: 05-05-1999

Visit Belgium.be
Domain registration date: 18-12-2000

Visit Wallonia.com
Domain registration date: 12-06-2014

Visit Belgique.com
Domain registration date: 11-12-2024




Timeline

1939 Birth of
Frederique Raeynmaekers
The Lady will later
turn into a global trendsetter
and have a lasting
impact on the Tourist Industry
of her country.

1950s National Tourist Office
ONT / INBT
opened a governemnt linked
Promotion agency in New York
linked with the airline Sabenas.

1977 Frederique Raeynmaekers
joins the Belgium Tourist Bureau
in the USA

The Belgian Tourist Office in the Americas
was located on 780 Third Avenue
New York
It acted as a central hub for
US outreach
including Travel Agents,
Tour Operators,
Airlines and Media

1997 Frederique Raeynmaekers
notices the upcoming trend
to use "Visit" in
Tourism Marketing
22-07-1997 she request
the registration
of the Visit Belgium.com domain
making her office
one of the very first
DMO
Destination Marketing Organisations
in the World
to own a "Visit" domain

The date is even more remarquable
as the DMO of the neigboring countries
France and Germany
do not realise the trend
and engage their countries
in less performant
marketing strategies.

A few months later
11-11-1997
the Luxembourg Promotion office
in New York follows
the example of Mrs Racynmaekers.

2007 Frederique Raeynmaekers
retires. She is replaced by
Annette Choynacki.

2016 Due to internal changes
Belgium Tourism Promotion
shifts from National
to regional.
The avant-garde website
stops operating.
Tourism is now organised
by 3 different entities
Visit Flanders
Visit Wallonia
Visit Belgium

2018 VisitBelgium.com
becomes a simple
redirection page
for 3 differentBelgium
websites.

In Belgium
the national Tourist agencies
are now divided in regional lines.

There is the Tourist Board
for French speaking Wallonia
for Dutch Speaking Flanders
and the capital Brussels

all 3 Tourist Boards
are gov agencies


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Visit Domains
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in neighbouring countries
Belgium has borders with 3 countries
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