The Swiss edifice manufacture recorded 18.5 cardinal overnight stays during the wintertime tourer play (November 2024 to April 2025, according to provisional figures from the country's Federal Statistical Office.
Compared to the aforesaid play past year, the measurement accrued by 2.8% (+497,000 overnight stays). With a full of 9.2 cardinal overnight stays, overseas request accrued by 5.5% (+478,000), reaching its champion level since the wintertime play of 2007/2008. Domestic demand, astatine 9.3 cardinal overnight stays, accrued precise somewhat (+0.2% / +20,000), exceeding, however, the humanities grounds of past year.
Moreover, according to provisional estimates by the Federal Statistical Office, successful 2024, tourer spending successful Switzerland and overseas continued to increase. However, spending by Swiss residents traveling overseas showed a much important summation (7.8%) than the income generated by overseas visitors to Switzerland (2.2%).
Meanwhile, according to the latest Bisnode survey, astir 4,813 companies closed their doors successful 2024 successful Switzerland, signaling an summation of 2% year-on-year, with astir of them recorded successful the operation and catering sectors, successful peculiar successful the semi-cantons of Appenzell Innerrhoden (+67%) and Outerrhoden (+38%), arsenic good arsenic successful Neuchâtel (+36%), Nidwalden (+30%) and Schaffhausen (+29%). Fribourg recorded a humble summation (+5%), portion Vaud reported a alteration (-2%).
Nevertheless, Switzerland took archetypal spot successful the planetary competitiveness ranking this year, surpassing Singapore and Hong Kong, according to the survey conducted by the Lausanne-based IMD Institute. It is followed by Denmark, the United Arab Emirates, Taiwan, Ireland, Sweden, Qatar and the Netherlands. As for Switzerland's neighboring countries, Germany is ranked 19th, France and Italy are ranked 22nd and 43rd respectively, portion Austria is ranked 26th.
The accusation comes from the Office for Economic and Commercial Affairs successful Bern.
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