About Visit Monaco.com and tourist info
Monaco Tourist Office
30 All. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
34000 Montpellier
France (Monaco)
+377 92 166 166
more about Monaco
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Wikipedia
Monaco has a 4,1 km coastline on the Mediterranian
1 Unesco World Heritage sites
10 Most popular Tourist Attractions of Monaco
- 01Monte Carlo Casino
- 02Prince’s Palace of Monaco
- 03Oceanographic Museum
- 04Jardin Exotique (Exotic Garden)
- 05Saint Nicholas Cathedral
- 01Larvotto Beach
- 02Casino Square
- 03Monaco Harbor (Port Hercules)
- 04Musée National de Monaco
- 05Japanese Garden
History of the website and Tourism Marketing in Monaco
Monaco.com
Domain registration date: 09-07-1995
Monaco-Congres.com
Deomain registration date: 21-07-1997
Monaco-Tourism.com
Domain registration date: 06-10-1999
Monaco-Tourisme.com
Domain registration date: 27-07-2000
Visit Monaco.com
Domain registration date : 02-07-2001
Timeline
1863 Prince Charles III of Monaco (1818-1889) gives the permission to Francois Blanc (1806-1877) to create the casino which becomes a major European attraction.
1860s - 1870s Rail connections made Monaco more accessible to tourist from Paris.
1870s - 1914 The Belle epoque area helps Monaco to become one of Europe's premier
Luxury destinations.
SBM, the Société des Bains de Mer plays a major role in developping
Monaco's Luxury image.
1950s Grace Kelly (1929 - 1982), one of the most admired
American actress of all times ads a lot of glamour to the Principality of Monaco.
Wedding with Prince Rainer III (1923-2005)
18-04-1956
1970 Establishment of the Direction du Tourisme et des Congres.
1971 Foundation oin the USA of the Fire and Alarm systems company
Monaco Enterprise by Clarenvce Antony Monaco and his son Eugene A Monaco from Spokane, Washington
1982 Princess Grace died in a car accident 14-09-1982,
3 years before internet domains came into existance.
Her legend lasts.
1985 Registration of the first internet domains.
It took almost a decade before
.com Internet domains started to be used in the Unites States.
3-5 years later they were also adopted in Europe.
1995 Geo Domain "Monaco.com" registered by Eugene A Monaco, from Fire and Alarm systems
Monaco Enterprise.
Monaco.com is a typical case of how a "pure geo domain" was registered during the very early years of the internet.
The profile were people from the US
(the country where Internet was born) that were already online and that wanted a website for a project.
1996 The Principality of Monaco gets it's proper international dialing code +377 leaving the French phonesystem +33
21-06-1996
This becomes possible after the fall of the Berlin wall making the phone code of East Germany +37 available for 10 new country codes.
The editor of the Global Visit List was in Monaco that day and saw the exitement over the new country code.
The new country code was attributed by the
International Telecom Union in Geneva.
Before internet domains existed catchy phonenumbers were very important in marketing.
1997 Registration of the first Visit domains in California.
1997 / 1999
The Monaco Tourist Board starts a webpresence using the domain
Monaco-congres.com registered 21-07-1997
Monaco-Tourism.com registered 06-10-1999
2001 VisitMonaco.com registered 02-07-2001
There is a possibility that a domain as emblematic was already registered before 2001 but early domain registration data is hard to find.
2001-2002 The domain VisitMonaco.com was redirected to Tldi.com with the possibility, during 18 month, to send an email about aquisition interest.
2003 January the domain VisitMonaco.com was aquired by the Monaco Tourist Office.
The sale was handled in a private transaction.
Very interesting concerning the
Visit phoneomeon in general.
The direction du Tourisme decided not to go for the
"pure geo domain"
Monaco.com used at that time by
Monaco Enterprises Inc, an Alarm Systems company from Spokane, Washington, USA
"Monaco" was the family name of the company founders .
A lot of money would have been necessary to buy the domain.
It might even have been necessary to buy the entire Alarm Systems company to get hold of the "monaco.com" domain.
Aquiring VisitMonaco.com was a much easier and cheaper solution.
The Principality of Monaco always open to different cultures might have been inspired by some US websites that had already adopte "Visit"
first VisitMonaco.com website from 2003
2003 May launch of VisitMonaco.com previously used bulky, hyphenated domains,
Monaco-Tourism.com
Monaco-Tourisme.com are redirected to
VisitMonaco.com.
The choice or Monaco to use the "Visit+Geo Domain"
VisitMonaco.com instead of the "Pure Geo Domain"
Monaco.com contributed to establish the Visit Phonemenon globaly.
At that time there were about
200 active Tourism websites using "Visit"
2004 logo of the Visit Monaco website
2008 Inspired by Visit Monaco the Kingdom of Morocco finaly adpts the same Visit Style launching Visit Morocco.com
.
2011 A new logo is implemented
2018 A new logo is created to strengthen the "Visit Monaco" branding
"visit " is added to the logo
The new logo is announce 09-01-2018
2019 Monaco Inc, the alarm systems company from Spokane gets sold to
Lomete Capital partners.
The buyers of the company see the value of the Monaco.com domain and seperate if from the professional activity of the alarm ststems.
The company from Spokane registers a new domain for it's website monaco-inc.com
The domain Monaco.com is sold to a AI startup.
With "Visit" having become so popular the Principality has a perfect domain for a tourism website.
Most tourist expect "Visit Monaco.com" and no longer "Monaco.com" to be the address making the Visit domain far more valuable than the pur geo domain.
2026 The Monaco Government
Tourism and Convention Authority reveals the new visual identity of the Visit Monaco brand.
Le logo is announced 12-02-2026
The logo, prominently showing the world "visit" was designed to reflect the positioning of a heritage in motion.
the word "visit" is hand-drawn in a lively and spontaneous style, introducing a human and emotional dimension.
The logo is complemented by an emblematic monogram, conceived as a contemporary seal evoking the coat of arms of the Principality.
Talking to many different tourist boards the editor of the Global Visit List was captivated the learn that a multiple of tourist boards were inspired by the glamour of the "Visit Monaco.com" website so they adopted the same pattern for their own destinations.
Thus the glamour of Princess Grace that had died
3 years before internet domains were invented, the reputation of the Principality and the beauty of the
Visit Monaco.com website had a global impact on Tourism Marketing.
Inspired by Monaco many other destination in particular those in Italy change their communication to "visit".
Today
"Visit Geo domains" are become significantly more important than "pure Geo Domains".
Even though "visit" is an English verb, using the "Visit + Destination" naming convention has become the universal, gold-standard blueprint for global tourism websites from French speaking countries.
Ad Agency
The website VisitMonaco.com has been helped by the creative agency
Colibri
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