Visit Europe.com

About Visit Europe.com and tourist info

Visit Europe
European Travel Commission ETC
Rue du Marché aux Herbes 61
1000 Brussels
Belgium
+32 2 548 90 00

mail: info "at" visiteurope.com

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Members

Austrian National Tourist Office (ANTO) more about Austria

Visit Flanders

Wallonie Belgique Tourisme
WBT more about Belgium

Ministry of Tourism of the Republic of Bulgaria
Visit Bulgaria

Croatian National Tourist Board
CNTB

Republic of Cyprus
Deputy Ministry of Tourism
Visit Cyprus

Visit Czechia

Visit Denmark more about Denmark

Visit Estonia
Estonian Tourist Board

Visit Finland
Business Finland Ltd
Finpro Ry more about Finland

Atout France ex Maison de la France rejoint as full member 09-09-2021 more about France

German National Tourist Board
GNTB more about Germany

Greek National Tourism Organisation
GNTO
Visit Greece more about Greece

Hungary Tourism Agency
Visit Hungary more about Hungary

Icelandic Tourist Board
Visit Iceland more about Iceland

Tourism Ireland

Enit - Agenzia Nazionale del Turismo
Italian Gov Tourist Board more about Italy

Investment and Development
Agency of Latvia (LIAA)

Ministry of the Economy and Innovation of the
Republic of Lithuania

Visit Luxembourg
Luxembourg for Tourism LFT more about Luxembourg

Malta Tourism Authority (MTA)

Visit Monaco
Monaco Government Tourist and Convention Office more about Monaco

National Tourism Organisation of Montenegro

NBTC Holland Marketing more about the Netherlands

Innovation Norway
Visit Norway more about Norway

Poland Tourism Organisation
(PTO) more about Poland

Turismo de Portugal
Visit Portugal more about Portugal

Ministry of Economy,
Entrepreneurship and Tourism
Visit Romania.com more about Romania

San Marino
State office for Tourism

National Tourism Organisation of Serbia (NTOS)

Slovakia Travel

Slovenian Tourist Board more about Slovenia

Turespana
Instituto de Turismo more about Spain

Switzerland Tourism more about Switzerland

Türkiye Tourism Promotion and Development Agency

State Agency for
Tourism Development of Ukraine SATD

History of the website and Tourism Marketing in Europe

Visit Europe.com
Domain registration date: 17-10-1996

Timeline

1948 Establishmanet of ETC

George C Marshall, father of the Marshall plan beleived the Tourism, in particular US Tourism to Europe could contribute to the reconstruction of the continent.

Birger Nordholm was the funding director of the organisation

Among the Founding people were

Pietro Romani,
Alto Commissario per il Turismo
Gunnar Lampe,
Norway Travel Association
Mogens Lichtenberg,
Turistforeningen for Danmark
Almeida Araujo,
Informacao Cultura Popular e Turismo

1956 for the first time
Europe had half a million visitors from the United States

1989 fall of the Berlin wall opening the way for
Eastern European countries joining ETC

1995 Registraion of the domain
GoEurope.com

1996 Launch of the first webpresence of ETC via GoEurope.com.
The site referred to Member Organisations,
10 of them had websites by 1996

1996 Registration of the domain VisitEurope.com as one of the oldest active vist domains

While the domains of a few small Tourist boards in the US were already registered a few month before
ETC is the first major tourist board to use a "visit" prefixed geo domain, thus contributing to a global phenomenon.

The domain was registered directly and did not need to be aquired at a later time.

Hans Jakob Kruse (1929 - 2014) from Hamburg beleived "Visit" would be a more dynamic internet adress.

Kruses vision of the tourism industrie came from a world of shipcarriers and charter flights.

1997 launch of the website
VisitEurope.com

GoEurope.com rebranded to VisitEurope.com

2002 Euro banknotes introduced 01-01-2002

2006 full redevelopment of the website
VisitEurope.com launched at a during a European Tourism Ministers’
Conference in Vienna

The organisation has the mission to promote Europe as a travel destination.
The organisation is depending on the
European Travel Commission
ETC is not an organisation of the European Union.

ETC is finances by Members' contributions and funds from the European Commission.