Overnight hotel stays rose by 0.7% during the 2018/2019 winter season
Neuchâtel, 05.06.2019 - The hotel industry in Switzerland recorded 16.7 million overnight stays during the winter tourist season (November 2018 to April 2019), i.e. the best result since the winter season of 2007/2008. Compared with the same period last year this represents an increase of 0.7% (+117 000). With 8.8 million overnight stays, foreign demand rose by 1.0% (+83 000). Domestic visitors registered a slight increase of 0.4% (+34 000) with 7.9 million units. These are the provisional results from the Federal Statistical Office (FSO).
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Address for enquiries
Yves-Laurent Strauss, FSO, Tourism section, tel.: +41 58 463 65 73, email: info-tour@bfs.admin.ch
Publisher
Federal Statistical Office
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