As an Advantage Travel Agent,
personalised by owner managed office with
all qualified and experienced staff.
We operate the latest computerised
reservations and have keen airfares,
holidays, hotels, self-drive cars and cruises.
We offer prompt confirmations and tickets.
Our services include groups and incentive
travel.
Switzerland
Switzerland may be neutral but it is certainly
not flavourless. The fusion of German, French and Italian
ingredients has formed a robust national culture, and the
country's alpine landscapes have enough zing to reinvigorate
the most jaded traveller.
Goethe summed up Switzerland succinctly as a combination
of 'the colossal and the well-ordered'. You can be sure that
your trains and letters will be on time. The tidy, just-so
precision of Swiss towns is tempered by the lofty splendour
of the landscapes that surround them.
Switzerland conjures up a fair swag of clichés: irresistible
chocolates, kitsch clocks, yodelling Heidis, humourless bankers,
international bureaucracies and an orderly, anally-retentive
and rather bland national persona. But Harry Lime was wrong
on more than one account when, in The Third Man, he said 500
years of Swiss democracy and peace had produced nothing more
than the cuckoo clock. For a start, the Germans invented this
monstrous timepiece; secondly, the Swiss, who are a brainy
lot, have won more Nobel Prizes and registered more patents
per capita than any other nation on earth.
Full country name: Swiss Confederation
Area: 41,295 sq km
Population: 7.3 million
Capital City: Bern (pop 130,000)
People: 74% German, 20% French, 4% Italian & 1% Romansch
Languge: German, French, Italian, Raeto-Romance
Religion: 49% Roman Catholic & 48% Protestant
Government: Federal republic
Head of State: President Pascal Couchepin
GDP: US$192 billion
GDP per capita: US$26,400
Annual Growth: 2%
Inflation: 2%
Major Industries: Banking, insurance, pharmaceuticals, chemicals
& precision instruments, tourism
Major Trading Partners: EU (esp. Germany, France, Italy, UK),
US, Japan
Member of EU: no
Windsor & Neate Travel, ABTA/IATA
We act as agents for scheduled airlines and ATOL holders. When we receive your payment we will immediately issue to you your
airline tickets or an ATOL receipt confirming which ATOL travel firm you are booked with. ATOL is a Travel Protection scheme operated
by the Civil Aviation Authority that extends primarily to customers who book and pay in the UK.
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