Tourism accounts for a quarter of total traffic in Switzerland
Published: Friday, Dec 6th 2024, 12:40
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More than half of the traffic in Switzerland is attributable to mobility for leisure and tourism. The Swiss population uses public transport much more frequently for tourist trips than foreign guests. These are the conclusions of a new report.
On Friday, the Federal Council adopted the report of the Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE) ordered by the Council of States. For the first time, this report describes a definition of tourist traffic and presents figures.
According to the report, more than half of the mobility volume in Switzerland is related to leisure and tourism: 27 percent is accounted for by leisure traffic and 25 percent by tourist traffic. According to the report, the share of tourist traffic must be estimated on the basis of various assumptions.
There are various reasons for tourism trips: 86 percent are for leisure. The classic vacation trip falls into this category. 12 percent are business trips and the remaining 2 percent are shopping trips. For tourist trips with a destination in Switzerland, the car is used in 74 percent of cases, public transport in 24 percent and the bicycle in 2 percent.
According to the report, it is also striking that the Swiss resident population uses public transport much more frequently for tourist trips than foreign guests. For the latter, the public transport share for day trips is only 4 percent, while the public transport share for transit traffic is 3 percent.
These findings are an important basis for shaping transport and tourism policy, wrote the Federal Council. The insights gained from this would be linked to existing traffic data.
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