Geneva best city for recreation in Europe in 2014

Geneva got the best city award for recreation in Europe in 2014 from the World Tourism Award Management, which was held in Athens on Aug. 2, 2014 in the presence of the most important companies and the pioneers of tourism and decision-makers and the media interested in global tourism.

This is the prize Koskar in the global tourism domain, and accepted by the visitors to Geneva as the city to work, but competed with the oldest European cities such as Paris, London, Madrid, Rome and the prize has proved that it has great features to be a center for recreation and rest and stays short.

Geneva is the first Swiss city that get this title making them take a place on the world tourism map for being the heart of Europe and the gate of Switzerland, is known for the global standard of living is full of well-being in addition to the landscape and greenery picturesque.

This has visited about 184 thousand tourists from the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Geneva last year, compared with more than 166 thousand tourists in 2011, and the Saudis tourists came top of a number of Gulf tourists during the past two years.

The official in the tourism office Geneva Christel Johntina boycott the 183.967 tourists Gulf visited the city of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 2012, of whom 76.616 tourists Saudis or the equivalent of 41.6% of the total Gulf tourists come after them Emiratis tourists number reached 52.076 tourists or the equivalent ratio of 28.3% .

With Qatari tourists ranked third at a rate of 19.042 tourists or the equivalent of 10.3%, followed by Kuwaitis 16.101 tourists increased by 8.7%, and the Bahraini 14.749 8.2%, and the Omanis 5383 tourists by 2.9%.

Those figures represent tourist nights only ie they include tourist who come down in a hotel or an apartment or residential house pays his rent, and does not include tourists who spend their holidays in their own residence, or when the knowledge to them where they go in the calculation of the number of entrants tourists to the country, and on this basis The number of tourist nights spent by tourists in the Gulf Geneva last year 183.967 nights compared to 166.815 nights in 2011, an increase of 10.3%.