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About Visit Belgium.com and tourist info

#VisitBelgium

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

mail: info "at" toerismevlaanderen.be

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

mail: info "at" visitwallonia.be

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

Top 10

Tourist Attractions of Belgium

1. 01
   Grand Place / Grote Markt in Brussels
2. 02
   Bruges Historic Center
3. 03
   Atomium, Brussels
4. 04
   Ghent's Gravensteen
5. 05
   Basilica of the Holy Blood, Brugge

1. 01
   Meuse Valley
2. 02
   Waterloo Battlefield
3. 03
   Manneken Pis, Brussels
4. 04
   Antwerp Cathedral
5. 05
   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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Belgium has borders with 3 countries
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