Tourism in Switzerland
are drawn to Switzerland s Alpine climate and landscapes, in particular for skiing and mountaineering.begins with British mountaineers climbing the main peaks of the Bernese Alps in the early 19th century (Jungfrau +1811, Finsteraarhorn 1812). The Alpine Club in London is founded in 1857. Reconvalescence in the Alpine climate, in particular from Tuberculosis, is another important branch of tourism in the 19th and early 20th centuries for example in Davos, Graub? Nden. Because of the promin ence of the Bernese Alps in British mountaineering, the Bernese Oberland was long especially known as a tourist destination. Meiringen s Reichenbach Falls achieved literary fame as the site of the fictional death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (1893). The first organised tourist holidays to Switzerland were offered during the 19th century by the Thomas Cook and Lunn Travelcompanies.
Statistics
Official statistics of tourism were planned since 1852, but were only realized from 1934 and continued until 2003. Since +2004, the Federal Statistical Office had discontinued its own statistics, but collaborates with Switzerland Tourism in the publication of yearly Swiss Tourism Figures raquo ;. In the year 2011 as a total number of 4,967 registered hotels or hostels, offering a total of 240,000 beds in 128,000 rooms. This capacity was saturated to 41.7% (compared to 39.7% in 2005), amounting to a total of 38.8 million lodging nights. 14% of hotels were inGrisons, 12% each in the Valais and Eastern Switzerland, 11% in Central Switzerland and 9% in the Bernese Oberland. The ratio of lodging nights in relation to resident population ( tourism intensity raquo ;, a measure for the relative importance of tourism to local economy) was largest in Grisons (8.3) and Bernese Oberland (5.3), compared to a Swiss average of 1.3. 56.4% of lodging nights were by visitors from abroad (broken down by nationality: 16.5% Germany, 6.3% UK, 4.8% USA, 3.6% France, 3.0% Italy) total financial volume associated with tourism, including transportation, is estimated to CHF 35.5 billion (as of 2010) although some of this comes from fuel tax and sales of motorway vignettes. The total gross value added from tourism is 14.9 billion. Tourism provides a total of 144,838 full time equivalent jobs in the entire country. The total financial volume of tourist lodging is 5.19 billion CHF and eating at the lodging provides an additional 5.19 billion. The total gross value added of 14.9 billion is about 2.9% of Switzerland's +2010 nominal GDP of 550.57 billion CHF.major airport of Switzerland is at Zurich, main railway connections are to Geneva, Zurich and Basel. The main connection across the Alps is via the Gotthard tunnels (road and railway) .most visited Swiss tourist attractions are first, the Rhine Falls, second, the Berne Bear exhibit (both for free), and third, with over 1.8 million paid entries:Zoo Basel.tourist destinations in Switzerland:
Alpine
ТЗ Grisons
ТЗ Engadin
ТЗ Davos
ТЗ Eastern Switzerland
ТЗ Wildhaus
ТЗ Valais
ТЗ Aletsch
ТЗ Anz? re
ТЗ Saas-Fee
ТЗ Zermatt
ТЗ Bernese Oberland
ТЗ Grindelwald
ТЗ Gstaad
ТЗ Interlaken
ТЗ Bernese Alps
ТЗ Jungfrau
Cities
ТЗ Z? rich
ТЗ Bern
ТЗ Lucerne
ТЗ Basel
ТЗ Geneva
ТЗ Lausanne
ТЗ Canton Ticino
ТЗ Locarno
ТЗ Lugano
ТЗ Ascona
tourism switzerland alpine city
The Alpine region of Switzerland, conventionally referred to as the Swiss Alps (German: Schweizer Alpen, French: Alpes suisses, Italian: Alpi svizzere, Romansh: Alps svizras), represents a major natural feature of the country and is, alongside with the Swiss Plateau and the Swiss portion of the Jura Mountains, one of its three main physiographic regions. The Swiss Alps extend over both the Western Alps and the Eastern Alps, encompassing an area sometimes called Central Alps. [1] While the northern ranges from the Bernese Alps to the Appenzell Alps are entirely in Switzerland, the southern ranges from the Mont Blanc massif to the Bernina massif are shared with other countries such as France, Italy, Aust...
