Chinese tourists admiring the view and learning about Switzerland's first weather station at Saentis
NEUCHATEL, SWITZERLAND – Figures for the Swiss Hotel industry in November, published 16 January, confirm the likely impact of the high Swiss franc, with the number of overnight stays down by 0.2 percent. Swiss visitors increased, up 2 percent, while foreign visitors diminished, with their stays down by 2 percent.
The total of overnight stays was 1.8 million, with a drop of 3,000 overnights for the month, with foreigners having 19,000 fewer overnight stays.
The number of overnight stays from Europeans continued its downward (-4.4 percent) trend of 2011, with Russia (an increase of 1,500 overnight stays) the only major exception. Asia continued to offset the dip, with Chinese tourists increasing their overnight stays by 11,000 (up 38 percent), the largest overall increase.
This work by genevalunch.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.
News story, GenevaLunch, 16 January 2012.
Tags: Chinese tourists, Europeans, high Swiss franc, overnight stays, statistics, Switzerland, tourism
Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.