Visit Canada.com
Montreal
Canada
+1 514 437 4055
mail: info@visitcanada.com
instagram: @govisitcanada
youtube:
facebook: fb.com/govisitcanada
X: x.com/govisitcanada
linkedin:
linkedin.com/company/
Alternative
Destination Canada.com
Canada's national
Marketing Organisation
Canadian Tourism Commission
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
10 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 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
Avant-garde Internet pioneer
Michael Donovan
registered 4 destinations the same day
also Visit Quebec.com
Visit New York.com
Visit Washington.com
22-04-1996
Donovan is the first
individual that anticipates
the future trend
of the expression Visit
1997 VisitCanada.com
goes online
as one of the very
early Tourist Information sites
2001 Registration
of Destination Canada.com
after some time
the domain is listed for sale
2002 Aquisiton of the domain
Hotels.com
by HRN who rebrands
to Hotels.com
The company,
now part of Expedia
made it possible
to book Hotels in Canada.
2006 The Canadian
Tourism Comission
tries the extension .travel
Canada.travel
registered
23-01-2006
2015 Possible aquisition
of the domain
Destination Canada.com
by the Canadia Tourism comission
2015 Launch of the website
DestinationCanada.com
Offers from Expedia
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and Tourist Boards
in neighbouring countries
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Check out Tourist Information
large borders
Visit the USA.com
small borders
Visit Greenland.com
Visit France.com
(St Pierre and Miquelon)
