Luxembourg has no coastline
only banks with the beautiful Mosel River
1 Unesco World Heritage sites
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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
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