About Visit Britain.com and tourist info
Visit Britain / Visit England
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Victoria
London SW1W OBD
UK
+44 20 7578 1400
mail: websiteassessibility "at" visitbritain.org
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
Top 10 Tourist Attractions of Britain
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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).
1970s / 1980s BTA Promotion offices open in global markets
1993 Anthony S Sell, a Paris based manager of theThomas Cook
Tour Operator arrives at the British Tourist Autority with the mission to promote Britain.
1997 The British Tourist Autority registered the VisitBritain.com domain during the early years of the internet 22-04-1997.
It was not necessary to aquire the domain from an avant-garde Domain Investor.
1998 Tom Wright arrived at the DMO. Under his leadership the organisation strenghtend its VisitBritain identity becoming a major actor to turn "Visit" into a global phenomenon.
Unlike many other tourist boards
VisitBritain never needed to update or modernize it's Brand name.
1998 Launch of the website by British Tourist Authority in association with British Airways
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 British Tourism Autorithy becomes Visit Britain
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 and not with the country code .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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Britain has borders with 2 countries
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