Visit Holland.com

About Visit Holland.com and tourist info

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

#VisitNetherlands

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TheNetherlands have a 451 km coastline on the North Sea
13 Unesco World Heritage sites

Top 10

Tourist Attractions of the Netherlands

1. 01
   Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
2. 02
   von Gogh Museum Holla
3. 03
   Keukenhof Gardens
4. 04
   Amsterdam Canal Ring
5. 05
   Zaanse Schans

1. 01
   Kinderdijk Windmills
2. 02
   Anne Frank House
3. 03
   Rotterdam Architecture
4. 04
   Giethoorn
5. 05
   Kröller Müller Museum

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

Timeline

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.

As .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 own 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

Pratically all "Pure Geo domains" were already registered before 1997, 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 "Visit Geo Domains",
VisitItaly.com
VisitSpingapore.com or VisitMonaco.com 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 changing "Holland" to "NL"

The domains
VisitNetherlands.com and VisittheNetherlands.com registered the same time are not in the domain portfolio of NBTC

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Netherlands has borders with 2 countries
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