About Visit Britain.com
and UK Tourist Info

Visit Britain / Visit England

3 Grosvenor Gardens
Victoria
London SW1W OBD
UK
+44 20 7578 1400

mail: websiteassessibility "at" visitbritain.org

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youtube: youtube.com/lovegreatbritain
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linkedin: linkedin.com/company/visitbritain/

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more about Britain / United Kingdom
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Wikipedia

The United Kingdom has a 31.000 km coastline
including all islands.
The coastline offers white chalk cliffs, sandy beaches,
rigged cliffs, sea stacks and quiet fishing villages
along the North Sea, the Atlantic Ocean,
the Irish Sea, the Celtic Sea,
the Norwegian Sea and the English Channel

35 Unesco World Heritage sites



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Top 10 Tourist Attractions
of Britain

1) Stonehenge

2) Tower of London

3) Windsor Castle

4) Hadrian’s Wall

5) The Roman Baths (Bath)


6) Big Ben & the Houses of Parliament

7) The Lake District National Park

8) Edinburgh Castle

9) Giant’s Causeway (Northern Ireland)

10) Snowdonia National Park (Wales)





History of the website
and Tourism Marketing
in the United Kingdom
VisitBritain.com
Domain registration date: 22-04-1997

VisitWales.com
Domain registration date: 10-10-1997

Visit Scotland.com
Domain registration date: 31-03-1998

VisitEngland.com
Domain registration date: 17-10-1998

The domains are part of the
first vist domains


Timeline

1910 foundation of the
British Travel and Holidays Association
(BTHA)

1969 The Development of Tourism Act
created the official bodies
of the British, English, Scottish
and Wales Tourist Boards.

The Tourism act
did not include Northern Ireland.

While the UK (United Kingdom)
is a souvereign country
including
England, Scotland, Wales
and Northern Ireland
Britain only refers to the Island
that only includes England,
Scotland and Wales


The organisation was later
renamed British Tourist Authority (BTA).


1997 The British Tourist Autority
registered the VisitBritain.com domain
during the early years
of the internet.
It was not necessary
to aquire the domain
from an avant-garde Domain Investor.

Unlike many other tourist boards
VisitBritain never needed
to update or modernize
it's Brand name.


The domains
VisitBritain.com
VisitScotland.com
VisitWales.com
were registered from the beginning.

Only Visit England.com,
already registered,
was missing


2003
Visit England.com
was aquired
via the broker agency
DomainSystems.com


2003 The London Tourist Board
inspired by Visit Britain
aquires the domain
Visit London.com

Britain, England
and London
are now using the same
domain format
ending with .com
not .co.uk


VisitBritain
along with US and Scandinavian
Tourist Boards
is one of the trendsetters
contributing to turn
the domain formet
Visit+destination.com
into an international standard.


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