Visit Zuerich.com

About Visit Zuerich.com and tourist info

Visit Zurich.ch
Brandstrasse 25, 8952 Schlieren
Switzerland

+41 76 706 40 04

mail: info@visitzurich.ch

more about Zurich
Phone Book of the World
Wikipedia
Visit Switzerland.com

Top 10 Tourist Attractions of Zuerich

Lake Zuerich
Old Town
Bahnhofstrasse
Grossmünster
Fraumünster

Uetliberg
Kunsthaus Zürich
Swiss National Museum
Lindenhof
Zürich Zoo

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History of the website and Tourism Marketing in Zurich

Zurich.com
Domain registration date: 11-10-1994

Zuerich.com first Domain registration date: 1995 or before second Domain registration date 14-04-1997

zurichtourism.ch
Domain registration date: 04-11-1996

Visit Zuerich.com
Domain registration date: 11-05-2007

Visit Zurich.ch
Domain registration date: 05-12-2008

Timeline

1844 Opening of the
Hotel Baur au Lac, one of the
Grand Hotels of the World.com

1885 Establishment of
Zürich Tourismus as the city's official promotion commission.
The mission was to restore the reputation of the city after a pandemic.

1980s Stephanie von Fuerstenberg, a Swiss German artists spreads her Love for Zurich to all the children around her.

1985 first Internet Domains registered
VB.com/1985

1994 Registation of the domain
Hotels.com 30-03-1994

1995 / 1996 The first Visitor Bureau,
VBs or CVBs start to use the prefix "Visit"

1996 Launch of Zuerich.com an avant-garde information site about the city created by
ICS Internet Center a no longer existing
Swiss intenet / media company

1997 Zuerich Tourism launches a website with the internet domain
ZuerichTourism.ch

1998 The domain Zuerich.com is aquired by IEF Internet Engineering Frei another Swiss Internet company.

2001 Launch of .info a new gTLD designed for companies that had missed .com

.info domains were fashionable for a short moment
The Tourism website was briefly called Zuerich.info
But soon the .info fashion waved.

2001 Zuerich Tourism understands that it is important to get a .com

Aquisition of the domain
Zuerich.com by Zuerich Turismus from from IEF
The amount of the transaction was not published.

At that time
Zurich.com was no longer available already owned by the "Insurance Company Zurich".

Pure Geo domains were highly valuated around the turn of the century.
Sometimes they were so expensive and so difficult to get
Tourist Boards like Monaco or London tried to find an alternative.
The solution was to add "Visit".

"Vist" was already used by
Visit California.com and other US Destinations in the areas where Internet was born.
Soon other Anglo American or Scandinavian Destinations followed.

The glamour of
Visit Monaco.com still rooting in the charisma of Grace Kelly,
Princess of Monaco or Visit London.com was so strong more and more Tourist Sites all around the globe wanted to get a "Visit Geo Domain".

But this was not the case in Switzerland where "visit domains" remained an exception.

2002 Launch of Zuerich.com, the new Tourism website
Zuerich.com is replacing
ZurichTourism.ch and Zurich.info

2007 Registration of the domain
VisitZuerich.com 11-05-2007 under the inspiration of the artist
Stephanie von Fuerstenberg.

For a decade
VisitZuerich.com is redirected to
PhoneBookoftheWorld.com/zurich

2008 Registration of the domain
VisitZurich.ch 05-12-2008
The domain is soon activated by
Brunella Jorio and Heidi Metzner to promote their sucessfull
Zuerich Tour Guide Organisation.

In same way the two Ladies are the pioneers of "Visit" in Switzerland.

2012 Zuerich Tourism starts to adopt "Visit" for social media and opens an instagram account
@visitzurich effective 15-05-2012

2017 Phone Book of the World impacted by never ending construction works loses the domain "VisitZuerich.com"
21-06-2017

2017 Zuerich Tourismus creats a new visual identity

2022 A conversation with Stephanie von Fuerstenberg at a birthday party 13-07-2022 results in a re-registration of VisitZuerich.com
24-07-2022

By miracle the lost domain had become available again.

At that time there are still very few active
Visit Domains in Switzerland

2026 A wave of energy whipes through Switzerland.

Marcus Cent, the editor of VisitRome.com had collected 3 Swiss Visit domains.
The domains had been inactive for several years.

VisitLucerne.com turns it into a beautiful Swiss website effective 05-02-2026

The same happened to
VisitMontreux.com and VisitZug.com effective 28-04-2026

During the same time, spring 2026 more sleeping visit domains come alive in other German speaking regions with moderate use of the "visit phenomenon"
Germany and Austria.

Following this wave
VisitZuerich.com is activated 25-05-2026

"Visit" starts to find it's place in Switzerland following a global trend where "Visit+city.com" has become the most prominent domain format.

The question is what wil happen to
VisitSwitzerland.com an extremely valuable domain, currently half asleep and only used in a redirection mode.

While wringing this artice
26-05-2026
Switzerland has
14 active Visit domains

Visit Domains and Tourist Boards nearby

coming soon