Visit Celle.com

About Visit Celle.com and tourist info

Visit Celle
Tourismusinformation der Stadt Celle
Markt 7
29221 Celle
Germany

+49 5141 12 4444 (Tourist Information)
+49 5141 120 (Townhall)
+49 5141 1909080 (Marketing)

mail: tourismus@celle.de

#VisitCelle

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Top 10 Tourist Attractions of Celle

1. 01
   Celle Castle
2. 02
   Bomann Museum
3. 03
   Fachwerkstadt Celle
4. 04
   French Garden
5. 05
   Hoppener Haus

1. 01
   Kunstmuseum Celle
2. 02
   Castle Old Town
3. 03
   Celle Castle Park
4. 04
   Modell von Celle
5. 05
   Upper Aller near Celle

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History of the website and Tourism Marketing in Celle

Visit Celle.com
Domain registration date: 08-01-2018

Timeline

1985 first Internet Domains registered
VB.com/1985

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"

1998 Lauch of Celle.de
Tourism is promoted within the city portal

2000 Registration of the pure geo domain
Celle.com registered 26-09-2000
The domain turns into a website for Cellular products.

The same happened to most other city names, they were registered for all kind of brands before Tourism Marketing became popular. .

Highly valuable at the turn of the century pure geo domains were replaced by visit+geodomains used by many official DMOs today.

2005 First Registration of the domain
VisitCelle.com by the
Windheim domain portfolio from Akershus / Norway.

The domain investor was visionary and since 2003 he started to collect hundreds of Visit+destinations.com domains.

Instead of providing relevant content or giving the possibility to aquire the domains,
VisitCelle.com and hundreds of other Visit Domains were part of a "Spam Linkfarm" with messy, irrelevant information polluting the web.

All over Europe the Vindheim Portfolio blocked the development of
Tourist Information.
Hundreds of tourist boards could not get their matching
"visit domains".

The Vindheim portfolio also including thousands of "trash domains" with poor names like visit2germany.com or less popular TLDs like .biz or .tv
At it's peak the portfolio reached around 13.000 domains.

2006 Launch of new gTLDs like .travel followed by .tours .vacations,
.voyage or .reise with the idea to challenge
.com for tourist websites.

2006 April 27
Registration of Celle.travel
The new tourist related gTLDs are very expensive to renew and did not age well.
Two decades later 90% of .travel domains were not renewed or they are now redirected to .com or national ccTLDs like .de

2010 Celle followed a global phenomenon:
Lauch of a seperate professional
Tourism website outside the administrative city portal.
The "German Branding" celle-tourismus.de with a hyphen is choosen for the internet adress.

2011 Berlin becomes a Pioneer in Tourism marketing in Germany
Following the example of other major international cities the domain VisitBerlin.com registered 2001 is aquired for 230.000 USD.

2013 Registration of celle-tourismus.com
01-01-2013 redirected to the .de site

2017 - 2018
Under the burdon of higher and higher renewal charges the Vindheim portfolio collapsed and most of the valuable visit domains start to lapse.

A few tech savvy Tourist Boards follow the phenomenon.
They were able to re-register a matching "visit domain" they had not been able to get for years right after the domain had become available again.

2018 VisitCelle.com becomes available
08-01-2018 Second Registration of the domain VisitCelle.com by Celle Tourismus and Marketing GmbH

Celle Tourismus is the 4th
Tourist board in Germany to get a hypenless
Visit+destination.com domain after Visit Berlin.com
Visit Saxony.com and Visit Dessau.com

The idea was to make a Tourist Information site in English and other languages to attract International Tourist.

Visit Domains and Tourist Boards nearby

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