Visit Canada.com

About Visit Canada.com and tourist info

Visit Canada.com
Montreal
Canada
+1 514 437 4055

mail: info@visitcanada.com

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

#VisitCanada

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

Top 10 Tourist Attractions of Canada

1. 01
   Niagara Falls
2. 02
   Banff National Park
3. 03
   Old Quebec
4. 04
   CN Tower
5. 05
   Vancouver Park

1. 01
   Gros Morne National Park
2. 02
   Parliament Hill
3. 03
   Whistler Blackcomb
4. 04
   Bay of Fundy
5. 05
   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".

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)