Visit New York.com
only online
NYC Tourism.com
New York Tourist Office
123 West 43rd St,
New York, NY 10036,
United States
+1 212 997 6661
10 Most popular Tourist Attractions
of New York
1) Statue of Liberty
2) Central Park
3) 5th Avenue
4) Empire State Building
5) Metropolitan Museum of Art
6) Broadway and the Theater District
7) One World Observatory
8) Brooklyn Bridge
9) Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
10) Rockefeller Center
History
Domain registration date : 22-04-1996
VisitNewYork.com
is one of four Visit Domains
registered all the same day
by a private Travel operator.
the Winged Victory company.
It was the first time a private Tour Operator
registered a "Visit+destination.com Domain",
not only one,
but four at the same moment.
Timeline
1980s The US tour operator
Winged Victory company
organized educational travel programs,
especially language and school trips.
They have taken students
from hundreds of high schools,
junior high schools and middle schools
on educational trips to New York City,
Washington, D.C., Montreal
and Quebec City.
4 domains were registered
in one shot
the same moment
all domain
are very valuable today
Visit New York.com
Visit Washington.com
Visit Quebec.com
Visit Canada.com
The 4 domains
were part of one of the earliest
online tourism ventures.
2000s early
the websites shifted from a simple tour operator
to a more comprehensive tourism portal.
The website partnered with other tourism-related businesses
like
hotels, restaurants, event ticket vendors
to earn affiliate commissions.
2011 VisitNewYork.com
becamee part of an ecosystem
of independently operated
US Visit websites
part of the Associated Visitors Bureaus.com
This ecxosystem also incudes
Visit Boston.com
Visit Key West.com
Visit Miami.com
Visit Phoenix.com
already mentionned Visit Quebec.com
and Visit Washington.com
2026 Sadly VisitNewYork.com
shows a sharp
decline in quality.
Today
The official website of the
New York City Tourist Board / NYC & Company,
never managed to aquire the hi-profile
VisitNewYork.com
domain.
Their website is NYCGO.com (reg 08-03-01)
changee in 2023
to NYCtourism.com (reg 13-02-99)
has a much less prominent internet domain
but a much stonger content.
Visit New Yrok.com
roots in the no longer
exisitng Educational Tour Operator
Winged Victory company.
It is one of the first
Tourist Information sites
using the now so popular "Visit" style.
