GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss, Easyjet and Geneva airport all showed traffic up in 2012, figures published Thursday 10 January show. Swiss in 2012 carried 16.8 million passengers, a 2.5 percent increase and a record number for the airline, owned by Lufthansa, the parent company said in a statement. The Swiss seat load factor, at 82.4 […]
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Italy, France, Switzerland: 7 Ceps regional wine competition winners named
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The 7 Ceps wine competition is an interesting variation on the theme of “best of” that for most competitions means best of a grape variety or a politically defined region. These are wines from a geographically linked area, the vineyards in the greater Mont Blanc region with producers in Italy, France and […]
Swiss tourism tightens belt, looks forward to 2015
Ski lifts will bounce back in 2013 due to high demand for day passes BERN, SWITZERLAND – The high Swiss franc continues to hurt the Swiss tourism industry, but the worst may be behind it, a key new forecast indicates. Bakbasel, an economic research group, and Seco, the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, expect […]
Swiss join world network compiling “geographic indicators”
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – If you’ve ever tried to get a handle on all the AOC’s, IGPs, DCs, and other geographic indicators for products, particularly for wine, and felt overwhelmed, you might feel reassured to know there is a global network that is compiling a complete online list by 2014. Switzerland last week joined the group. […]
Creative tourist marketing in a tough, tough market
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – The tourist industry in Switzerland is arguably suffering more than any other business area from the too-long too-strong Swiss franc, so hat’s off to the Swiss Convention & Incentive Bureau for clearly selling the pleasure and beauty of Swiss travel to a key group, incentive business travel managers. If you’re not already […]