Tracing travel trails on Swiss trains

December 22, 2011 by  
Filed under Surveys

“We are world champs for travel by public transport,” Swiss Travel System market manager for America, Asia and Australia, Fausto Zaina tells me proudly on the first day of my Swiss tour.

It’s my first visit to the country and I am not going to contradict my host, who appears to know what he is talking about.

By the time the trip was over I admitted he was right. It is hard to rival the sheer complexity and density of the country’s public transport systems and that is even the more surprising when you recognise this is a relatively small country when compared with neighbours Germany and France.

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