- In the largest Swiss cities, the number of visitors to the Christmas markets has reached the level before the corona pandemic.
- The Christmas markets in Bern, Basel, Chur and Geneva draw extremely positive conclusions.
- Only the rainy weather was a drop of bitterness for the enthusiasm in some places.
Up to a million people visited the Basel Christmas market. This is announced by the canton of Basel-Stadt. This corresponds to the number of visitors that the city on the Rhine was used to before Corona times.
An above-average number of guests from Spain and Italy visited the Christmas market in the city on the Rhine, the canton continued in its announcement on Thursday. The market lasted from the end of November until Friday, December 23rd and took place on Barfüsserplatz and Münsterplatz.
In Geneva, too, the organizer of the “English Plants” Christmas market is satisfied. Almost 400,000 people enjoyed the atmosphere at the 60 stands during the Advent season. The weather, with around a third of rainy days, was the “only downside”, according to the organizer.
In Chur, many did not survive the crisis
In Berne, the organizers of the star market draw a “very positive balance”. There are 76 huts on the Kleine Schanze for this market until the end of the year. At the Christmas market on the Münsterplatz in Bern, there is great relief that there are no longer any restrictions. “The sales in 2022 are probably comparable to the sales before Corona,” the organizer told the media.
In Chur, the organizers of the Christkindlimarkt recorded as many visitors as before the corona pandemic, a spokeswoman said on request. It was a pity this year that there were fewer stands than usual, the spokeswoman said. In the best of times there were 40 stands, this year there were only 30. Some of them would not have survived the Corona crisis.