Swiss tourists stayed close to home in 2020
Date
12/10/2021 11:18:46 PM
(MENAFN- Swissinfo)
Hiking, and biking, were rare winners in the pandemic. Keystone / Arno Balzarini
New data on Swiss travel habits during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic show fewer overnight stays, less air travel and a collapse in trips beyond the borders of Europe.
This content was published on December 8, 2021 - 15:36 December 8, 2021 - 15:36 Keystone-SDA/dos
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Suíços fizeram turismo em casa em 2020
In 2020 the Swiss resident population made a total of 15.1 million trips which included at least one night away from home, according to a report published by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) on Wednesday. That's 1.9 trips on average per person, down a third from the 2.8 recorded in 2019 and down from a five-year high of 3.1 in 2017.
The destinations for these trips also shifted: the majority (55%) were in Switzerland itself, whereas in 2019 domestic stays were in the minority. This might have gone some way to mitigating the damage to the Swiss tourism sector in 2020 – driven by the disappearance of foreign visitors – which led to the Switzerland Tourism body calling 2020 its“annus horribilis”.
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