Early days of the domain
Registration date of VisitBerlin.com : 25-09-1998
VisitBerlin.com was activated 01-04-2001
It operated as un independant site.
Since 02-09-2011 VisitBerlin.com
is connected to the current website
and redirectes
to VisitBerlin.de.
Evolution of today's website
The history of Berlin Tourist Information
is very interesting.
Berlin is a trendsetter
and one of the first cities in the World
to have a professionale Tourist organisation.
Today Visit Berlin,
Berlin Tourismus und Congress Gmbh
is the city's official marketing agency.
It promotes Berlin as a tourism
and convention destination worldwide.
The online history of Visit Berlin
goes back to the year 1996
Berlin.de website from 30-10-1996
Berlin Tourist Information was first part of the administative city website Berlin.de.
2002 It was decided to create
a professional website dedicated to Tourism.
Tourist information were seperated from the administratice city site Berlin.de
Berlin-Tourist-Information.de website from 30-10-1996
The first official
Tourist Info wabesite was called Berlin-Tourist-Information.de
It came online 06-08-2002.
Over time the domain name,
including "-" dash signs looked outdated
and smartphone incompatible.
2007 Berlin adopted the expression Visit,
already used by many other cities.
First VisitBerlin.de website screenshot from 04-11-2007
"Vist Berlin" is not yet integrated into the logo.
11-10-2007 the site changed to VisitBerlin.de
Visit Berlin.com, connected to Berlin Tourismus and Marketing, screenshot 08-11-2011
Since 02-09-2011 VisitBerlin.com redirectes
to VisitBerlin.de.
Visit Berlin.de website, screenshot 26-09-2024
While in most cities national TLDs redirect to .com, Visit Berlin uses
the national German internet code.de as their main adress. VisitBerlin.com redirects to the english version of VisitBerlin.de/en.
In Germany many people don't realise that not every international webuser understands ".de",
many people think the country code for Germany is ".ge"
