Netherlands Board
of Tourism and Conventions
/ NBTC
Prinses Catharina-Amaliastraat 5
2496 XD The Hague
Netherlands
+31 70 3705 705
mail: nbtc "at" holland.com
instagram: @visitnetherlands
youtube:
youtube.com/visitnetherlands
facebook: fb.com/VisitNetherlands
X: x.com/germanytourism
linkedin:
linkedin.com/company/german-national-tourist-board/
Most popular Tourist Attractions
of the Netherlands
History of the website
and Tourism Marketing
in the Netherlands
Holland.com
Domain registration date: 25-04-1995
VisitHolland.com
Domain registration date: 03-07-1997
The domain was registered during
the early years of the internet,
see list of the oldest active vist domains.
Visit Amsterdam.nl
Domain registration date: 09-02-1999
NBTC.nl
domain registration date: 15-09-1999
Visit Netherlands.com
Visit the Netherlands.com
Domain registration date: 16-01-2000
Visit Netherlands.nl
Domain registration date : 14-06-2000
Visit the Netherlands.nl
Domain registration date: 13-10-2019
History
The Netherlands Board
of Tourism and Conventions / NBTC
was founded 20-09-2000
NBTC receives government funding
from the Ministry of Economic Affairs
and cooperates closely with partners
within the tourism industry.
The web presence started
with the domain
deutschland-tourismus.de.
The domain is no longer in active use.
While .com is recognised all over the world
and ccTlds
like .nl are know
in and beyond
their respective countries (Netherlands)
There are 160 milion acitve .com,
there are 6 million active .nl
making .nl
a very popular ccTLD
The tourist board
only used .com
The website is the pure geo domain
holland.com
They also have the domain
Visit Holland.com
redirected to Holland.com
They do not have Holland.nl
used as a site for bitcoins
Pure Geo domains
are very easy to remember.
Australia.com
is another example of a Tourist Board
using a pure geo domain
Most pure geo domains
were registered
before 1995,
the moment the "Visit" domain
phenomenon started.
At a time many Tourist Info sites
came online pure geo domains
were so expensive,
many tourist boards decided
to go for Visit+destination pattern.
Today many pure geo domains
like Singapore.com
or Italy.com
are used in a very commercial way
so the the equivalent with visit,
VisitItaly.com
of VisitSpingapore
have become far more popular
The term Holland only
refers to the Provinces
of North Holland
and South Holland
both
located in the western part
of the Kingdom.
While the country has 12 Provinces
only 2,
North and South Holland
or part of Holland.
The 10 others Drenthe,
Flevoland, Friesland,
Gelderland, Groningen,
Limburg, North Brabant,
Overijssel, Utrecht
and
Zeeland
are left out.
Sometimes the term "Holland"
refers to the county as a whole,
as much as "England"
can be confused as the whole
of the United Kingom
(leaving out Wales, Scotland
and Northern Ireland)
2020 January
The Netherlands
officially
dropped
the support of the world "Holland"
for the whole country
including a logo redesign
changinh "Holland" to "NL"
The domains
VisitNetherlands.com
and VisittheNetherlands.com
registered the same date
are not in the domain portfolio
of NBTC
Visit Domains
and Tourist Boards
in neighbouring countries
Netherlands has borders with 2 countries
Check out Tourist Information in these countries
Visit Belgium.com
Visit Germany.com
