Jane Dunford 

The world’s tourism slogans – mapped

A catchphrase may not say a lot about a country, in many cases, but some nations know a snappy soundbite when they see one. A holiday website has mapped every slogan in the world – but which will tempt you to visit?
  
  

Great Britain tourism slogan
Having a moment … Great Britain’s tourism slogan Photograph: PR Company Handout

It’s a challenge for even the most creative and blue-sky-thinking marketing person: how do you sum up your amazing (or possibly not-so-amazing) country in a slogan of just four words or so?

Holiday deals website FamilyBreakFinder has collected every country’s tourism slogan and plotted them on a new map (although 38 don’t have one, including North Korea and, more surprisingly, Sweden) – an amusing insight into how countries try to sell themselves.

Some countries go for the plain and simple, such as “Travel in Slovakia – good idea” or “Visit Armenia, it is beautiful”. Others plump for something a bit more poetic, like “Colombia is magic realism” (a nod to Gabriel García Márquez, one of the country’s famous sons) or Bhutan’s “Happiness is a place”.

Then there are the jokers –Djibouti’s “Djibeauty”, the not-entirely-grammatical “Think Hungary more than expected” and the downright obscure “El Salvador – The 45 Minute Country”.

Alliteration is a favourite ploy to whet your wanderlust – think “Beautiful Bangladesh” and “Brilliant Barbados” – while some hope their sheer enthusiasm (plus liberal use of exclamation marks and we’re-so-now hashtags) will win you over: take a bow Lithuania’s “See it! Feel it! Love it!” and Britain’s over-excited “#OMGB – home of amazing moments”.

 

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