About Visit the USA.com and tourist info
Visit the USA.com
Brand USA
Destination Marketing Organisation
1725 Eye Street NW
Washington DC 20006
USA
+1 202 536 2060
mail: jdoe"at"thebrandusa.com infos"at"office-tourisme-usa.com
more about the USA
Phone Book of the World
Wikipedia
Gov via Whitepages.com
The United States have a 20.016 km coastline along the Atlantic Ocean (3.330 km), the Pacific Ocean (2.080 km) + Hawaii coastline (1.207 km), the Gulf of Mexico (2.625 km) and the Arctic Ocean (1.707 km)
26 Unesco World Heritage sites
History of the Website and Tourism Marketing from the USA
DiscoverAmerica.com
Domain Registration date; 13-08-1996
VisitUSA.com
Domain registration date: 13-07-1998
VisittheUSA.com
Domain registration date: 25-04-2003
First records of the website 22-10-2003
Timeline
For a long time the United States had no centralized national tourism office
1995 first Visit domain registered for Mammoth California
1996 more Visit Domains follow
90% are for Destinations in the USA
1996 A private / public initiative led by the US Travel Association results in a first US online presence for tourism using the domain
DiscoverAmerica.com
1997 Christopher Thompson a marketing professional joins the Tourist Board of Florida
2004 The Florida Tourist board aquires the domain
VisitFlorida.com
10-08-2004
The Florida tourist board rebrands as Visit Florida
2009 VisittheUSA.com was a small site with sponsored Ad links powered by ActiveAudience
2010 foundation of
Brand USA the Destination Marketing
Organisation for the United States under a Travel Promotion Act under the presidency of Obama
2012 Christopher Thompson a performant marketing expert from Florida becomes CEO of Brand USA
2015 Official Website Launch of VisitTheUSA.com
It is not clear who owned the domain
VisittheUSA.com from the day of initial inception
04-10-2015 first version of new VisittheUSA.com online
15-11-2015 official launch day by Brand USA press release
DiscoverAmerica.com redirected to the new site
VisittheUSA.com
VisittheUSA.com website edited by
The Corporation for Travel Promotion
/ Brand USA
The fact the the USA adopted the prefix "Visit" boosted the global usage of other Tourist Informatiosn sites also using "Visit"
Visit Domains and Tourist Boards in neighbouring countries
The USA hav borders with 5 countries
Check out other Tourist Information
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