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switzerland profited from a pick-up in tourism last year. © keystone / peter klaunzer
visitors to switzerland spent chf16.6 billion ($18.5 billion) last year, which marks a significant jump from 2021 but is still slightly below pre-pandemic levels.
this content was published on june 30, 2023 june 30, 2023 swissinfo.ch/mga at the same time swiss tourists shelled out chf16.8 billion abroad, leading to a chf200 million tourism deficit, according to official statistics.
tourist spending in switzerland grew by nearly 50%, says the federal statistical office (fso), but remained 8% lower than the record year of 2019.
this corresponds with earlier figures from the hospitality industry , which recorded 38.2 million overnight stays in swiss hotels last year - nearly a third higher than 2021.
but spending by day-trippers and transit tourists increased at an even faster rate (60%) than people spending some time in the country (27%), the fso said.
people residing in switzerland also had more wanderlust last year, and they spent a great deal more in other countries than the pandemic year of 2021.
this included cross-border shoppers who spent chf5.1 billion – an increase of nearly a quarter.
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