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VisitLaRochelle.com is a private, independent travel guide. It is not the official website of the City of La Rochelle or its tourist office.

Phone Book of the World.com

VisitLaRochelle.com is edited by Phone Book of the World, based in the old, old, old Hôtel de Villeroy Bourbon / VB.com in Paris — a telecommunications hotspot and, once upon a time, seat of the Royal French Postal Services.

Phone Book of the World.com11 rue des Déchargeurs, 75001 Paris, FranceRCS Paris B 451 338 792Contact form

The site VisitLaRochelle.com is in an early state of development.

The domain VisitLaRochelle.com is part of the Phone Book of the World domain collection, which started in the 1990s. If you have a passion for La Rochelle and a project adding more content than what we have created, you can still acquire the domain.

If you run a website with interesting information for tourists — a museum, for example — we can integrate it into the search engine on the VisitLaRochelle.com home page. Just write to us via the Contact page.

Why “Visit”? The expression comes from “Visitors Bureau”, the American, British and Scandinavian term for a tourist office. Read more in The Visit network.

Visit Branding is adopted by more and more private and official actors,
Travel Guides, Hotel Organisations, modern thinking Agencies,
official Convention and Visitors Bureau
or even private local corporations investing into the culture of a home town they love.

VisitLaRochelle.com is part of an international heritage promotion initiative by VB.com (Very Beautiful / Visitors Bureau).
VB.com is a Mona Lisa of the modern tech world.
The adjacent letters "V B" right above the spacebar are ultra type-friendly.
Billions of phones are like "VB Billboards" making it so easy to connect with La Rochelle.

Just look at the keyboard of your phone!

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Not affiliated with the City of La Rochelle or its tourist office. Hotel and activity links may earn us a commission at no extra cost to you.

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Phone Book of the World

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Tourist information sites can be found in the Phone Book of the World / PBof.com:

PBof.com/city · PBof.com/country · PBof.com/visit · PBof.com/larochelle

Part of the “Visit Project”

Visit La Rochelle.com is an independent, non-official website and part of the “Visit Project” of Phone Book of the World — an initiative to encourage the creation of beautiful, modern internet sites that promote cultural heritage.

“Visit” domains are like little jewels. Visit La Rochelle.com belongs to a network of more than 1,000 “Visit” sites around the world, all built on the same easy pattern: “Visit”, the name of a destination, then dot com.

The domain VisitLaRochelle.com can be acquired: it is listed on two domain marketplaces, GoDaddy and Sedo.

As more and more websites use “Visit” in their address, and as this website is developed further, the price will go up over time.

A joker for your business in La Rochelle

Imagine you operate a hotel, a café or a museum in La Rochelle: a “Visit” domain can become a real joker for your business. Find out why:

If you have a beautiful project for La Rochelle, you can still acquire the iconic domain name VisitLaRochelle.com.

Acquire VisitLaRochelle.com on GoDaddy Buy the domain via Sedo

Visit + destination .com

The “Visit + destination .com” domain phenomenon started between California, Norway, Britain and Paris. The first domains were registered in 1995 / 1996 by avant-garde Visitors Bureaus (VB / CVB) located in the areas where the Internet was born.

At the same time the “Cybercafé de Paris” opened — a web café located at VB.com / Hôtel de Villeroy Bourbon / Crèmerie de Paris. This is where Phone Book of the World was invented.

The café also launched the concept of Pop Up Stores.

VB had the chance to run into Steve Jobs, who already had the future iPhone keyboard in mind. He gave the valuable advice to avoid the “-”, incompatible with the not-yet-existing iPhones: hyphens would soon make a website look outdated.

Visit La Rochelle.com follows this advice: a simple dot com address, without hyphens.

Why “Visit” dot com?

There are many, many tourist info sites around the world, all using completely different names. Different languages, or even local internet codes, can make it difficult to remember them.

With the arrival of the Internet, the designers of some pioneering tourist info sites started to use the expression “Visit”, followed by the name of a city or a country and the universally recognised top-level domain dot com — always dot com.

“Visit” is easy to understand for every tourist around the globe. The expression comes from “Visitors Bureau”, an American, British and Scandinavian term for a tourist office. The first Visit website might be Visit New York.com, registered on 21 April 1996, followed by Visit London.com, registered on 2 November 1998.

Today, almost every day, a new “Visit” site comes alive.

The directory of “Visit” sites