Visit Canada.com
Montreal
Canada
+1 514 437 4055
mail: info@visitcanada.com
instagram: @govisitcanada
youtube:
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linkedin:
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Alternative
Destination Canada.com
Canada's national
Marketing Organisation
Canadian Tourism Commission CTC
dba Destination Canada
700-1045 Howe Street
Vancouver V6Z 2A9
British Columbia
Canada
+1 604 638 8300
mail: gomedia@destinationcanada.com
instagram: @explorecanada
youtube: youtube.com/user/canadiantourism
facebook: fb.com/ExploreCanada
X: x.com/destinationcan
linkedin:
linkedin.com/company/destination-canada/
more about Canada
Phone Book of the World
Wikipedia
Canada has the longest coastline in the world
aproximately 243,000 km
The coastline covers both the Atlantic (around 50.000 km)
and the Pacific (25.726 km)
It is so long due to it's extensive Arctic archipelago
22 Unesco World Heritage sites
Offers from Hotels.com
Top 10 Tourist Attractions
of Canada
1) Niagara Falls
2) Banff National Park
3) Old Quebec
4) CN Tower
5)
Vancouver Park
6) Gros Morne National Park
7) Parliament Hill
8) Whistler Blackcomb
9) Bay of Fundy
10) Capilano Suspension Bridge Park
History of the website
and Tourism Marketing
in Canada
Visit Canada.com
Domain registration date: 22-04-1996
Destination Canada.com
Domain registration date: 04-07-2001
Timeline
1984 John Postel defines the
Domain Name System (DNS)
1985 first .com registered
it took
5 years before 1.000 domains
10 years before 10.000 domains
and 15 years before 10 million
domains came alive
VB.com/1985
1986 The US tour operator
Winged Victory company
based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
organized educational travel programs,
especially language and school trips.
They have taken students
from hundreds of high schools,
junior high schools and middle schools
on educational trips to New York City,
Washington, D.C., Montreal
and Quebec City.
1986 Opening of a small
Phone Boutique in France that will
turn into Cybercafe de Paris
/ Cremerie de Paris,
an avant-garde webcafe
where was invented
Phone Book of the World,
later home of the Global Visit List.
1994 Registation of the domain
Hotels.com 30-03-1994
1995 / 1996 The first Visitor Bureau,
VBs or CVBs
start to use the prefix "Visit"
Visit Canada.com
is one of the 10 first Visit Domains.
1996
4 domains were registered
in one shot
the same moment 22-04-1996
all 4 domain
are very valuable today.
Visit Canada.com
Visit New York.com
Visit Washington.com
Visit Quebec.com
The domains
were part of one of the earliest
online tourism ventures.
The people from
Winged Victory company,
were one of the first individual
that anticipates
the future trend
of the expression "Visit"
1997 CanadaTourism.com
registered by
the Canadian Tourism comission
16-08-1997
1997 VisitCanada.com
goes online
as one of the very
early Tourist Information sites
2001 Registration
of Destination Canada.com
04-07-2001
after some time
the domain was listed for sale
.
2002 The travel company Winged Victory
is sold to Willian Michael Cleary.
2005 Winged Victory
is resold
Education First,
market leader in Student Travel
and owner of the Two Letter Domain
EF.com
The Winged Victory Brand phases out.
2006 The Canadian
Tourism Comission CTC
is unhappy with it's domain
CanadaTourism.com
but they cannot get
VisitCanada.com
They try the newly launded
extension .travel
Canada.travel
registered
23-01-2006
The domain change is
publicly announced
as a "strategic move
to consolidate tourism marketing".
The domain
Canada.travel
delivered poor results
as many people don't unserstand
.travel is an internet adress
Everybody knows .com
or national ccTLDs like .ca
2015 Possible aquisition
of the domain
Destination Canada.com
by the Canadia Tourism Comission
CTC
2015 New rebranding
and
Launch of the website
DestinationCanada.com
Canada.travel is redirected
2015 Brand USA
adopts the "Visit" style
and launches
Visit the USA.com
2016 VisitCanada.com,
not only the domain
but the entire company is
aquired by ACIS Educational Tours
Today
VisitCanada.com
continues to provide Educational Tours
just is was imagined back in 1996
when it was one of the very first
"Visit" domains to be registered.
The site tat is a unique pioneer
in Tourism marketing
also provides
general Tourist Information.
Visit Canada.com
is no longer connected to
Visit New York.com
Visit Washington.com
or VisitQuebec.com
The Canadian Travel Comission CTC
was never been able to get the domain
and operates a website
with the less popular format
Destination+contry.com
On a global level
visit+place.com domains
are significantly more popular
and widely used in the tourism
and travel space
than destination+place.com domains.
While there are over 1.100 active "Visit Sites"
there might be two or three dozens
active "Destination Sites".
Offers from Expedia
Visit Domains
and Tourist Boards
in neighbouring countries
Canada has borders with 3 countries
Check out Tourist Information
large borders
Visit the USA.com
small borders
Visit Greenland.com
Visit France.com
(St Pierre and Miquelon)
