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Russians grow fond of summer Switzerland

09:18, 29 мая 2013

Over the past five years the number of overnights spent by the Russians in Switzerland during summer months has been steadily growing. In 2008 there were 172 thousand of them (+15% to the previous year's figures), in 2009 – over 186 thousand (+8%), 2010 – 196.3 thousand (+12.4%), 2011 – almost 216 thousand (+10%), and 2012 – 244.3 thousand (+12.4%). The most popular types of trips in the summertime are city breaks, among which the leader is Zurich – during the previous year alone the number of Russian overnights in this city's hotels grew by 21.2%. The rating continues (in descending order) with Geneva, Montreux, Lausanne, Lugano, Basel, Lucerne, and Bern. Last year's most impressive growth was shown by Basel (+66.4%).

To match the fast-advancing demand the country's flag-carrying airline, Swiss, announced the launch of two regular direct weekly flights from Geneva to Saint Petersburg from July 25 in addition to a daily service from Russia's northern capital to Zurich.

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