Holiday Observer

Objekttyp: Group

Zeitschrift: The Swiss observer : the journal of the Federation of Swiss Societies in the UK

Band (Jahr): - (1982)

Heft 1794

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http://www.e-periodica.ch THE 25th Olympiad - the international team tournament for men and women - is to be staged in from October 30 to November 17. The event was first held in 1927. It is now staged every two years, with the Lucerne Olympiad marking the 25th team tourna- ment for men and the 10th for women. About 140 teams are expected to participate, one third of them comprising women, and many grand masters will be competing. The Olympiad is being spon- sored by the Credit Suisse Bank, which has issued gold, silver and bronze medals to commemorate the Lucerne tournament. The medals have been designed by internationally-renowned Swiss artist Hans Erni.

A RECORD number o/ tourists uisitecf Zurieb last year. The city 's Tourist Office reports that there were 2.3 per cent more am'ua/s, bringing the total up to 1,094,562 and they spent 2,344,391 nights there, a rise o/ 3.6 per cent. In its annual report the tourist o//i'ce says the main reason was the big increase in uisitors /rom Asia and North and South America.

THE eastern Swiss city of St Gallen is again this October (7 to 17) staging the annual and in- creasingly popular OLMA - 's largest agricultural and dairying exhibition. Its comprehensive and representative display attracts visitors from all over the world. Products are shown from agricul- ture and dairying, agricultural machinery, agricultural aids and products, besides goods and utility articles for business and the household. Particularly important is the OLMA livestock show, dominated of course by the Hundreds of attentive eyes watch every move. For this is celebrated Swiss cattle. Swiss the Briinigsonwinget. Staged on a site near the Brünig cows and especially bulls have THE EYES Pass, it is one of Switzerland three big mountain been exported all over the world wrestling festivals - the others being those of for decades. In addition, however, Schwarzsee and the Rigi. Exponents of "Schwingen" there are horses, sheep and pigs HAVE from all over Switzerland meet every year to pit their be IT.. and each other. to seen. strength skill against ZURICH-based Swiss Nova Park hotel group has just acquired its eighth property - the Sheraton Model fans in Paris. railway Montparnasse The 1,000-room property will be re- named the Montparnasse Park Hotel. will flock to Basle The Nova-Park group also hopes to open a New York property this autumn and another in Cairo in 1985.

EM/LE Dai/enbach - "Monsieur Emile" to thousands o/ guests - has retired as Mâifre d Hotel o/ the /ive-sfar Hotel des Bergues in Geneva, a/ter 40 years service there. Hour aged 70 he joined the des Bergues in 1941 a/ter experience at several Suriss hote/s and at Quaglino's restaurant, London. He uras promoted Mâitre d'Hotel in 1962.

SWISSAIR has been voted the top airline in two international FOUR after the successful circles but also of all the friends of polls. In the first survey business- years dustry as well as from trades are men placed Swissair first with exhibition and trade fair rail-bound traffic - original or expected as visitors. 's Lufthansa "Railways - Original and Model", model. The exhibition groups cover airline. a similar event is being organised The railway enthusiasts will be metal and sheet metal working After sifting the views of senior for railway fans. It will be held in sharing the city with the tradi- (from bending, pressing, the halls the Swiss executives from 20,000 leading of Industries tional Basle Autumn Fair as well punching stamping, boring, mill- export companies, the UK Fair at the same time as the Basle as the Basle Autumn Market/9th ing, welding, etc. to instrumenta- magazine Annual Investment File Autumn Fair, from October 23 to Basle Wine Fair and SNOW 82, tion and the production of proto- found that British Airways had November 7. the show for sports, winter and types), surface treatment (from trebled its vote and climbed six "Railways 82" will bring recreation. galvanising to apparatus, installa- A Basle this places since last year to become together experts, amateurs, newcomer to year tions and surface treatment the third most popular carrier. importers, exporters, représenta- is Swisstech 82, a trade fair for products), materials and party, British Airways pushed tives of trade associations and a technical industrial supplies and drive parts, machine parts and American Airlines down into broad public of railway and sub-contracting, which will be constructive elements as well as model enthusiasts. the first fourth place by 42 votes, with railway taking place for time from factory and works installations. Trans World Airlines making The combination of exhibi- November 16-20 in the halls of The 11th Swiss Furniture Fair tion, trade fair, technical meet- the Swiss Industries Fair in Basle. from November strides from 11th place last year 25-29, admis- ings, excursions and associated Technical and to fifth this year. commercial sion to which is restricted to the attractions will make the event a buyers, technicians, engineers, trade, brings the 1982 exhibition Swiss and international meeting designers and draughtsmen from programme to a close, but plans BERNE'S bears are a big place not only of professional the whole area of technical in- for 1983 are taking shape. attraction, but the Swiss capital's tourist office wants visitors to know that the city has much more to offer. machinery industries, tourism is points in Lausanne are being to waterski So it has opened an infor- person nonstop the biggest "employer" in equipped to answer tourist en- around Lake Geneva. mation kiosk next to the Switzerland. The various fries. famed where qu Towed on a monoski bearpit - branches of the tourist industry A Lausanne tourist o//ice behind hundreds of tourists gather a speedboat, Minns employ either directly or in- spokesman said: 7n addition to covered the 105.6 miles in daily - to tell visitors about directly nearly a quarter of a mil- three the other our o/fices in town, 7' three hours and 40 minutes sights they can see lion people. have been in the panels placed at the at an average speed of 29.2 capital. Over 60 per cent of the over- entrance to these The tourist office has police stations. mph. night reservations of holiday "O/ficers with special training matches issued a set of leaflets, draw- "If anyone me, visitors are recorded in the hand out tourist /iterature and ing attention to features such i/ then I'll do it twice nonstop," economically under-privileged they cannot answer questions he said afterwards. "And if as the 16th century alpine and pre-alpine regions. In themselves they will in touch astronomical clock and the get someone does it twice, then this way, tourism contributes to a with the main tourist o/jftce." I'll do three circuits medieval fountains, for large extent to improving the distribution by the nonstop." city economic balance between the Minns made his first hostesses manning the heavily and poorly developed kiosk. re- AMERICAN millionaire attempt the previous day but gions of Switzerland. Richard Minns, 53-year-old abandoned just short of com- owner of a chain of health pleting the run because of AFTER the metallurgical and POL/CE stations at important clubs, has become the first high waves. 15