Visit Germany.com
for sale
Germany.travel
German National Tourist Board / GNTB
Deutsche Zentrale für Tourismus (DZT)
60325 Frankfurt
Germany
+49 69 974540
mail: info "at" germany.travel
instagram: @germanytourism
youtube:
youtube.com/germanytourism
facebook: fb.com/GermanyTravelDestination
X: x.com/germanytourism
linkedin:
linkedin.com/company/german-national-tourist-board/
more about Germany
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Wikipedia
County Portal
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Germany has a 1,300 km coastline
along the North Sea,
and 2.000 km along the Baltice Sea
This is not direct line mesurements,
but a coastline including silands an inlets
55 Unesco World Heritage sites
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Top 10 Tourist Attractions
of Germany
1) Neuschwanstein Castle
build by King Louis 2 of Bavaria
- near Fuessen
2) Brandenburger Tor / Brandenburg Gate
Berlin
3) Museum Island
Berlin
4) Cologne Cathedral / Kölner Dom - Cologne
5) Bundestag - Berlin
6) Heidelberg Castle - Heidelberg
7) Koenigsalle - Duesseldorf
8) Rhine Valley
between Bad Godesberg and Rüdesheim
9) Holstein Gate - Luebeck
10) Mosel Valley - between Trier and Koblenz
History of the website
and Tourism Marketing
in
Germany
Visit Germany.com
Domain registration date: 15-08-1997
The domain was registered during
the early years of the internet,
eventually before
the German Tourist Board
had the idea to make a website.
Visit Germany.com is on the list
of the first visit domains
Visit Germany.de
Domain registration date: before 2003
Germany.travel
Domain registration date: 13-01-2006
deutschland-tourismus.de
no longer used
Timeline
1948
German National Tourist Board
was founded 25-05-1948
The German name is
Deutsche Zentrale
für Tourismus (DZT).
Initially called
"Deutsche Zentrale
für Fremdenverkehr"
The organisation was founded
before the foundation of
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
20-09-1949.
Ludwig Erhard (1897 - 1977),
later Minister of Economy
and Chancelor of Germany
participated in the foundation of DZT.
The organisation promotes
Germany as a travel destination.
The organisation is linked
to a Government division,
the Ministry
for Economy
and Klimate Protection (BMWK)
The web presence started
with the domain
deutschland-tourismus.de
The domain is no longer in active use.
The current president of DTZ
is Petra Hedorfer.
The organisation has many members
like DB.de (Deutsche Bahn)
or LH.com (Lufthansa Airline),
Hotel Corporations
Airports
or Trade Fair Organisers.
Other members are
national Tourist Boards
like Visit Berlin.com
or Visit NRW.com
The organisation
missed to register the domain
VisitGermany.com
during the early years of the internet
before 15-08-1997
when it was still available.
They also missed
to aquire it when
domains were less valuable
and before "visit"
turned out to become a global trend.
2005 Launch of the extension .travel
with the idea to create an alternative
to .com .
In the following years
hundreds of other new sTLD
were also launched
with the result
that al these new TLD
created confustion
and
.com is more and more
the one and only TLD
with global recognition
.
Today
While .com is known all over the world
and ccTlds
like .de are also know
in and beyond
their respective countries (Germany)
On the other hand newTLDs
like .edu, .coop, .travel, .shop, .gmbh
.reise, .haus, .hoteles
have small usage.
There are 160 milion acitve .com,
18 million active .de
but there are only 18.000 active .travel domains,
less than 0.01% of all active websites
Some Businesses and Organisations
that have a dot .travel domain
redirect it to .com
example Booking.travel
Tripadvisor.travel
Lufthansa.travel
all redirect to .com
The Morroco Tourist board
that used Morocco.travel in 2009
realised that the extension
confused internet users
and switched to .com
after aquiring
the domain
Visit Morocco.com
Tourists confuse Germany.travel
with Germany.com
they get a lovely cat
that does not want to be disturbed.
It's not "Choupette"
the cat of the German designer
Karl Lagerfeld
but the cat of someone
that was really early on the web,
probably a German American
living somewhere
near Silicon Valley, California.
He registered
the domain 20-05-1994
Germany.com is a "pure geo domain"
but - once registered - these domains
were so expensive to buy
and so difficult to get
that today "Visit" geo domains
have become much more popular.
Tegernsee.com
is one of the rare cases
where a German Tourist Board
uses a pure geo domain
to promote tourism.
While a few pure geo domains
like Berlin.com
are smaller website,
most are inactif
or listed for sale.
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and Tourist Boards
in neighbouring countries
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