History of Visit Berlin.com
and Tourism Marketing
in Berlin
Early days of the domain
VisitBerlin.com
Domain
Registration: 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 redirects
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including "-" dash signs looked outdated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
2011 Aquisition of the domain "VisitBerlin.com"
from the domain investor Michahel Berkens for 230.000 USD
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"
