About Visit Luxembourg.com and tourist info
Luxembourg for Tourism GIE
Visit Luxembourg
6, rue Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
L-1432 Kirchberg Luxembourg
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+352 42 82 82 1
mail: info@visitluxembourg.com
more about Luxembourg
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Luxembourg has no coastline only banks with the beautiful Mosel River
1 Unesco World Heritage sites
Most popular Museums of Luxembourg
Musee d Art Moderne - Luxembourg City
Musee national d'histoire et d'Art
Musée Drai - Echelen
Luxembourg City History Museum
Villa Vauban
Casino Luxembourg - Froeum d'Art contemporain
Luxembourg National Museum of Natural History
Prehistory Museum - Echternach
Porta Nigra - Trier near Luxemburg
Villeroy Boch Keramikmuseum - Mettlach near Luxembourg
History of the website and Tourism Marketing in Luxembourg
Domain registration date: 11-11-1997
The domain is part of the first vist domains
Timeline
1933 Foundation of a Luxembourg Tourist Office
06-12-1933.
The organisation was called
"Syndicat Officiel d'Initiative et de Tourisme"
1942 The exiled Luxembourg Government aquires a building in New York now know as the "Luxembourg House"
The building is located in Manhatten, upper East Side
17 Beekman Place.
This early New York connection will later enable the Grand Dutch Tourism people to understand the arrival of the Internet long before many other European countries in particular Germany of France.
Today the Luxembourg Tourist Office ows it's iconic Visit Luxemburg.com domain to it's New York based
PR Office from Beekman Place.
The PR Office noticed the "Visit Trend" during the early years of the internet.
The domain was registered 11-11-1997 making it one ot the 50 earliest
Visit Domains.
Mrs Frederique Raeynmaekers from the the Belgium Promotion office had taken the same decision a few months earlier 22-07-1997 registering the domain
VisitBelgium.com
Mrs Raeynmaekers was very charismatic so she might have had an influence on other people from the Tourist Industry.
1997 It is beleived that the person who proceeded with the technical registration of the VisitLuxembourg.com domain was Serge Moes.
The domain was registered
11-11-1997
A modern internet mystery happened at the same moment.
The exact same day
11-11-1997 the domain
Visit Austria.com was also registered.
While for recent domain registrations it is possible to get a timestamp, hour/minute/second the exact registration moment is not available/
Back in 1997 internet was still so early, this information is not available
As very few Visit domains existed at that time, there is a strong possibility that the person that registered VisitAustria.com had a connection with the person that registered
VisitLuxemburg.com
But the person that registered VisitAustria.com was probably not from the Austrian
Tourist Representation.
Unlike Luxembourg and until today the Austrian Tourist Board has never been able to get the iconic VisitAustria.com domain still using a declining .info Tld.
1998 Launch of the first
VisitLuxembourg.com website with the help of the agency
Belimpex System Corp.
1999 Launch from Luxembourg of a national
Tourism website with the address Ont.lu
(Office National du Tourisme)
2002 ONT registers the domain
VisitLuxembourg.lu activated as a website and today redirected to VisitLuxembourg.com
2004 first Visit Luxembourg logo added to the website.
The logo is used from 2004 to 2012
2012 VisitLuxembourg.com remained the website of the Luxembourg
National Tourist Office in the United States until 2012
2015 ONT.lu rebranded as VisitLuxembourg.com
05-11-2015
Thus the World's only Grand Duchy became the home of a valuable Visit dot com domain.
Unlike the DMOs of some countries like Greece
Luxembourg understands the importance to have a universal dot com domain so people from all around the globe find easy access to the website.
2017 Creation of the
"Luxembourg Let's make it happen" logo and nation branding signature by the agencies Brinsfeld and
Vidale Gloesener
The logo has the mission to highlight Luxembourg values of openess, dynamism and reliability.
more about the Logo
The logo later inspired the iconic Visit Luxembourg Logo which was implemented on the
VisitLuxembourg website 21-10-2017
Check out the logo on the logo page of the Global Visit List.
2026 The website
VisitLuxembourg.com is so well designed that many Tourist sites all over Europe feature it as an aexample of excellence, examples
VisitBadGodesberg.com or VisitDonaueschingen.com
a little thank you to Sarah Pitt for valuable information that completed this article
Visit Domains and Tourist Boards in neighbouring countries
Luxembourg has borders with 3 countries
Check out other Tourist Information
Visit Belgium.com
Visit France.com
Visit Germany.com
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