Holiday business in Switzerland is booming - Camper overrun holiday destinations

The great Swiss mountain areas are overrun after the recent relaxations in the Corona-crisis in Europe this summer by vacationers almost. A lot of have for the

Holiday business in Switzerland is booming - Camper overrun holiday destinations

The great Swiss mountain areas are overrun after the recent relaxations in the Corona-crisis in Europe this summer by vacationers almost. A lot of have for the the summer months higher bookings than last year, as a survey of the German press Agency shows. In addition, campers were Wild in some places, to the Problem, such as community representatives reported Wednesday in broadcasting.

"never to this time, booked the hotel room,"

"We have for the entire summer, there is a Demand increase of 27 percent," said Luzi Bürkli of the organization of the Grisons holiday of the dpa. The Gasthaus Krone in La Punt in the Engadine, the phone, annealer since mid-June, Sonja Martin, which leads the Three-star-house with her husband Andreas said on Swiss radio. "We've never had to this time so well booked hotel rooms as at this moment."

Also, the Region of Adelboden, Lenk, Kandersteg, in the Bernese Oberland for July and August, Plus in bookings compared to the previous year. "We stand with the current posting happy," said Silvia Nüesch, spokesperson of Adelboden-Lenk, Kandersteg tourism. In the Canton of Valais, the situation is also promising, for example, in the regions of Saas Fee and the Aletsch. "In the month of June, the occupancy was better than in the same month in the previous years," said Mathias Fleischmann of the marketing organization Wallis Promotion. Reuters/Max Schmid/Switzerland tourism views of the vineyards of Varen into the Rhone valley In Switzerland can join the holidaymakers in the autumn and in some regions the grape harvest.

There will be more Swiss guests, the their holiday spend this year abroad, but also visitors from Germany and the Benelux countries, say those responsible for Tourism would come to a.

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fines for wild campers

Also, campsites are booked up until August widely. A lot of people with campers have stopped so in the wild or on Park places to Stay. The can be expensive, it's fines, sometimes thousands of Swiss francs may be imposed.

"There has been virtually any Parking Camper", said the mayor of the municipality of Flüeli, in the Canton of Lucerne, Sabine Wermelinger, the Radion SRF. Some were exemplary, but others left behind mountains of Waste. The locals had felt in the Canton of Uri of campers by surprise, said the managing Director of the tourism Association, Maurus Stöckli. In addition to the waste, "the really bad cases": "the fact That man directs his legacies in the mountain stream into it instead of them."

Many municipalities now provide new short-term Parking for campers available. Uri has been reported in 65 temporary Parking spaces, one for example, in addition to a cross-country ski centre, where showers and toilets are available. The Night costs 20 francs (18,70 euros). Uri is actually considered as a transit Canton, most of the guests rushing through the direction of the Ticino and Italy. Stöckli now sees a Chance to make the Uri as a location for campers has been known to keep guests longer and earn more.

loss of Asian travel groups

runs Less good it is for cities, which will receive a part of many Asian groups as a guest, or from the now canceled events. The owner of the Five-star hotel Schweizerhof in Lucerne, Patrick Hauser, normally 80 per cent foreign guests. The important Festival of classical music takes place. Hauser wants to attract visitors with intimate house concerts. Also Interlaken attracts in the summer, in addition to Swiss usually are many Asian tour groups. You will build in overnight Stays, hardly to record years such as 2018 or 2019, it said in Interlaken tourism. The bookings from Germany had increased.

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Date Of Update: 16 July 2020, 19:26
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