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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 16, 2016 16:12:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2016 17:17:31 GMT
If only it were so simple.
This site says that the slogan for France is "Rendezvous en France."
However, when I look at the official French tourism website, I find the equally lame "Be Inspired. Be in France." -- that's the version for the UK. The US website does not have a slogan, but promotes the awful video that I already posted elsewhere. The UK site also has the slogan "Paris is a party" inspired by the Hemingway book The Moveable Feast, whose French title was "Paris est une fête." This was used a lot right after the terrorist attacks of November 2015.
Some of the national slogans are entirely valid, though. I know that Thailand has been using "Amazing Thailand" for at least ten years. The Canadian slogan is also valid, according to the official website.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 16, 2016 17:46:06 GMT
I don't think I ever saw the US video -- probably just as well. I like "El Salvador -- The 45 Minute Country" Eh??? Poor Syria's is "Always Beautiful".  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2016 17:54:10 GMT
I meant the US version of the France Tourism website.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 16, 2016 17:59:22 GMT
Oh yeah ~ the one that inspired me to dance on the roofs of major buildings in Paris, right?
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 16, 2016 18:53:15 GMT
Spain?
What crap.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 16, 2016 19:19:52 GMT
!! Do you think that's a mistake? If not ~ what crap.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 16, 2016 19:32:02 GMT
I'm not really sure if it is the real one or not. I can't quickly see anything definitive on their tourism website.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2016 16:44:32 GMT
JEEZUMS!!
So many of these are sooo bad.
I wonder who the hell has the job of designating these?
Wouldn't it be fun for us to come up with our own APIAS list to submit to the various tourism bureaus?
(The 45 minute country for El Salvador, I agree, WTF?)
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 17, 2016 19:12:17 GMT
United States of America – All within your reach.
Reminds me of the cowboy thing, "reach for your guns!
Sierra Leone – The freedom to explore
Except in the bits where the land mines are.
San Marino – San Marino For All
And your immigration policy is......
Philippines – It’s more fun in the Phillipines
Unless you are a drug dealer.
(And there is no real need to spell it differently)
Monaco – Easy going Monaco
It is if you are rich and it isn't so easy going if you try and walk round with your shirt off.
Jordan – Yes, it’s Jordan
Good slogan if you expected to land in Amman and be somewhere else.
Gambia – The smiling coast of Africa
And sex tourism for old British women.
Colombia – Colombia is magical realism
Borrowed from Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Algeria – Tourism for everybody
Unless you want to drive in from Morocco
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 17, 2016 20:10:31 GMT
I wonder if that slogan for the US was generated back when there were only 48 states all stuck together in one land mass. And yes, there are days when I feel that Mexico's slogan is only too accurate.  |
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