Visit Spain.com

About Visit Spain.com and tourist info

Spanish Tourist Board
Tourespana / Tourspain
Ministerio de Industria y Turismo
V Panama, 1
28046 Madrid
Spain
+34 91 349 4640

mail: info "at" tourspain.es

#VisitSpain

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Spain has a 4.964 km coastline along the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
The Balearic Islands have a coastline of 1.428 km and the Canary Islands 1.540 km.

50 Unesco World Heritage sites

Top 10 Tourist Attractions of Spain

1. 01
   The Alhambra
2. 02
   Basilica, Barcelona
3. 03
   Great Mosque, Cordoba
4. 04
   Cathedral Santiago de Compostela
5. 05
   Alcazar Segovia
6. 06
   Cathedral Burgos
7. 07
   Basilica of Nostra Segnora del Pilar, Zaragoza
8. 08
   Cathedral Majorca
9. 09
   Plaza Mayor, Madrid
10. 10
    Giralda Tower

History of the website and Tourism Marketing in Spain

TourSpain.es
Domain registration date: 22-05-1996

Visit Spain.com
Domain registration date: 24-02-2000

Spain.info
Domain registration date: 01-08-2001

Timeline

1985 Foundation of "Inprotour"
(Instituto Nacional de Promocion del Turismo ) following a General State Budget Law

1988 The name was rebranded to Turespana

1983 the renowned painter
Joan Miro (1893 - 1983) created a logo to represent the corportate identity of Spanish Tourism

1984 was cretad the iconic ad campaign
"Spain, everything under the sun"

1995 The fashion photographers
Herb Ritts, Elliot Erwitt and Annie Leibovitz creates a beautiful ad campaign

2000 VisitSpain.com comes alive as an ad portal

2000 When the national
Tourist Board of Spain decided to create a new website the domains Spain.com and VisitSpain.com were already registered.

The idea came up to use a .info domain.
.info was released 26-06-2001
.info is one of about 1.500 new TLD that were created as an alternative to .com

The Austrian Tourist board did the same and Austria.info was registered 6 days before,
26-07-2001

Some marketing experts beleived
.info would become a serious alternative for the already established .com

Time proved the contrary, today, a quater century later,
.com is the only globally recognised TLD a multitude of new TLDs
(Top Level Domains) have strenghtened the predominance of .com

There are 160 million .com domains and not even 4 million .info domains

.info has become less popular.
Only three national tourist boards,
Austria Slovenia and Spain are still using it.

Many tourist boards, particularly those aiming for a professional and branded online presence, have shifted away from less prominent domains in favor of .com

2006 VisitSpain.com turned into a new advertising page with sponsored links

2018 The Spanish Tourist board aquired the VisitSpain.com domain
The amount of the transaction has not been published date of transaction around 01-12-2018

The domain is in a dormant status

2025 VisitSpain.com activated but still redirected to Spain.info
01-11-2025

It would make sense for Tourespana to modernise it's Url and to transition from Spain.info to
VisitSpain.com

Switching to VisitSpain.com would look more modern be in alignment with many Tourist Boards and gain international recognition

Tourespana is the official agency of the
Government of Spain under management of the Ministry of Industry and Tourism

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