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Germany.travel
German National Tourist Board / GNTB
Deutsche Zentrale für Tourismus (DZT)
60325 Frankfurt
Germany
+49 69 974540

mail: info "at" germany.travel

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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: 2000
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 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

1997 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.

2000 web presence started
with the domain
deutschland-tourismus.de
The domain is no longer in active use.

2005 Launch of the extension .travel
with the idea to create an alternative
to .com

2006 registration of
Germany.travel
13-01-2006

hundreds of other new sTLD
followed,
.tourism .reise .voyage .holiday
.vacations .hotel .traveller,
.coop, .shop,
.gmbh, .haus, .hoteles
and many many others.

Result
that al these new TLD
created confustion,
a lot of competition
among themselves
and .com
remains the one and only.
and ccTLDs like .de are know
in and beyond
their respective countries like Germany.

New niche gTLDs did not age well.
Sometimes trendy
at the moment of their launch
and recommended
by the one or the other ad agency
most new gTLDs,
that now exist in over 1.200 versions
never became mainstream.

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.

Most Businesses and Organisations
that once registered / used
a .travel domain
now redirects it to .com
example Booking.travel
Tripadvisor.travel
Lufthansa.travel
all redirect to .com

National Tourist boards that were able
to get "Visit+country" at a later time
now redirect it,
as they realised
niche Tlds confuse internet users.
Morocco.travel switched
to Visit Morocco.com in 2009
Greece.travel
to Visit Greece.gr in 2021
Others will be switching
sooner or later.

Many other .travel domains,
that imply very hi renewal charges
were simply not renewed and lapsed.



Many users don't understand “.travel”
is a TLD
and they think the URL is an error.

Tourists confuse Germany.travel
with Germany.com
As a result
for a long time they got 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"
registered in the very early years
of the internet.

When internet became popular
around 2000 these domains
were so expensive to aquire
and so difficult to get
that "Visit Geo Domains"
have been an alternative solution
for Tourism marketing.

While a few pure geo domains
like Berlin.com
are smaller website,
most are inactif
or listed for sale.
Tegernsee.com
is one of the rare cases in Germany
of a pure Geo domain in
professional use.

.travel has seen a strong decline
with more and more
travel sites around the world
switching to .com
or to ccTld like .de
While 215.000 .travel domains were registered
10 years ago only 10 to 15%
are still used today.

While .dot domains
can reach multi million dallar amounts
in the secondary market,
there are pratically
no recorded sales for .travel domains.

Using a decling TLD
the German Tourist Board
might not make the best
marketing investment
in the promotion the country.





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