The price of a bad village name: What were the options for unnamed foreigners?

We have often heard village names, but also Albanian cities, which have strange names with strong sexual implications. We're mentioning some of them like Phuqi, Muqibabe, Ulqa, etc. Periscope has been translated into this article by the BBC, which has exactly unfortunate names.

Finding ways to attract new business opportunities and new investments is never easy, especially for today's highly competitive and global market. But this mission becomes even more difficult when you happen to have the name of a carcinogenic mineral banned in nearly 60 countries of the world.

This is the Asbest disaster (Azbest), a small French-Canadian country in the southeastern east of Canada's Quebec, the BBC writes.

At first, this mineral had a different reputation, but from 1920 onward, evidence was linked that it could cause deadly diseases like the methelioma type of cancer and lung cancer. The World Health Organization ( O BS had estimated that over 100,000 people in the world died from exposure to asthma.

For the French village called “Vandals” (Vandals), unwanted tourism associated with his name seemed too much to bear. In 2008, the community of BiH, which lies south of Metz, voted to change its name to Vantousens in an attempt to disappear from the public conscience. The head of the village, Claude Velley, had commented at the time, <x2 most visitors come here waiting to meet the wrong kind of people. We are not vandals, and there is no reason why people should refer to us in that form. ”

But such a name may be of commercial importance. Perhaps one of the best examples is the Norwegian village called “Ferr” (Hell) A popular tourist destination of a century ago.

In the 1930 ' s, the New York Times reported on Americans visiting the village to post before the railway station signs and purchase cards written: “Ferri is frozen”.

This publicity has prompted Hell Village to hold a number of different events, including the Hell Blues Festival.

Other villages have also tried to capitalise on their names. Such is the village of Boring (iresome) in the United States, the village of Dul (toil), Scotland; and the village of Bland (resulting) in Australia.

Some countries have exceeded the shame of their names in order to get more money. Such is Dildo's fishing community. This country had even voted to change the name that was the same as that of a sexual toy, but most citizens wanted to wear it.

Thirty years later, this city generates 40 percent of its income from American and Canadian tourists.