Travel insignia for places that have been surveyed.
Badges for real places, printed on shirts, hoodies and stickers. From €3,49, shipped worldwide by Spreadshirt, thirty days to exchange.
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A merchandise brand in the form of a tourism office, with a fictional founding date of 1954; published by CGDEV since 2019. The Bureau surveys real places, records what can be verified about them, and prints the badge. A parenthesis of the register is given to issued destinations, which do not exist and say so. Every design carries the Bureau seal. The principal series covers Switzerland.
The Swiss register
10 entries · Surveyed, gazetted and printed by the Bureau. First series.
The American national parks
4 entries · Four national parks, surveyed and gazetted by the Bureau.
The Italian register
8 entries · Surveyed, gazetted and printed by the Bureau. Second series.
Issued destinations
15 entries · Surveyed, gazetted and printed by the Bureau. None of them exist.
The mythology desk
7 entries · Places the world already knows, treated as ordinary tourism business.
Questions put to the Bureau
Standing answers
- Are these places real?
- The Swiss register is. Every destination in it is a real place; the dates and measurements printed on those badges are sourced, and the sources are kept. The Bureau issues two further series and says so plainly: destinations of its own invention, which exist nowhere, and places out of myth, which it files as ordinary tourism business. Each series is announced on this page. The remarks are always the Bureau's own.
- What is the Gazetteer Bureau?
- A merchandise brand in the form of a punctilious government tourism office. It designs travel insignia — badges, shirts, stickers — for real places, in the visual language of mid-century travel posters and national park patches.
- Who prints and ships the products?
- Products are printed on demand and fulfilled by Spreadshirt, which is the seller of record for orders placed through the shop.
- What does the seal mean?
- The circular seal reads GAZETTEER BUREAU OF TOURISM & EXPLORATION and carries the fictional founding date 1954. It appears unchanged on every design and is the mark that identifies a badge as issued by the Bureau.
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