GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The new website for Genève Aéroport is a visual treat, compared to the old one, but more importantly, it is being developed as a travel portal. The airport has hooked up with various companies so that you can use the site to order flights with ebooker, hotels, cars, parking and more. It’s […]
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Davos & Klosters tourism combine social media with site news, US-style
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7va1BoKD5M&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss tourism lags behind the US for offering travellers web site news combined with comments from the public on social media, but Davos & Klosters in Graubuenden have just changed that, and I like the look of what they’ve done. If you’re hunting for travel information in a hurry you might not […]
Vaud drivers’ licenses remain tough to obtain
Half of all drivers fail first attempt at on-the-road test Some cantons offer theory tests in English, but success rate low Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Lausanne and Neuchatel are once again the toughest places in Switzerland in which to get a driver’s license, 2010 Swiss statistics on the success rates for theory and driving tests […]
Zurich airport traffic up in March, latest sign of economic recovery
Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Zurich’s Kloten Airport saw passenger traffic increase by 3.9 percent in March over the same period a year earlier. The airport had 1.88 million passengers in March. The strongest growth was in local passenger traffic, up 4.6 percent, while transit traffic grew by 1.5 percent. Freight traffic was also up, by […]
Qaddafi family tree, Zurich tripup, ice roads
At long last, someone put together a picture for us of the Qaddafi family, all of whom are on lists for frozen assets in Switzerland: thanks go to Ria Novosti, Russian news agency. Aunts, uncles and the rest of the clan are not here, but the children are all here, with photos and their birthdates. […]