Tourism will continue to suffer from the corona crash for years

The Swiss tourism business should grow significantly again in the summer. However, it will take a few more years for the industry to make up for the losses caused by the corona pandemic.

With the vaccination campaign launched at the beginning of the year, a gradual improvement in the situation in the tourism sector can be expected, wrote the economic research center at ETH Zurich (KOF) in its forecast published on Tuesday. For the summer season, overnight stays are expected to grow by 19 percent compared to the previous year, explained KOF Director Jan-Egbert Sturm in an online presentation to the media.