Editing Economy of Switzerland (section)

===Tourism===
{{Main|Tourism in Switzerland}}
[[File:Mont Cervin Palace at night in Zermatt.jpg|thumb|250px|The Mont Cervin Palace in [[Zermatt]]]]
Switzerland has highly developed tourism infrastructure, especially in the [[Swiss Alps|mountainous regions]] and cities, making it a good market for tourism-related equipment and services.

14% of hotels were in [[Grisons]], 12% each in the [[Valais]] and [[Eastern Switzerland]], 11% in [[Central Switzerland]] and 9% in the [[Bernese Oberland]]. The ratio of lodging nights in relation to resident population ("tourism intensity", a measure for the relative importance of tourism to local economy) was largest in Grisons (8.3) and Bernese Oberland (5.3), compared to a Swiss average of 1.3. 56.4% of lodging nights were by visitors from abroad (broken down by nationality: 16.5% Germany, 6.3% UK, 4.8% USA, 3.6% France, 3.0% Italy)
<ref>Switzerland Tourism, "Swiss Tourism in Figures - 2007 [http://www.swisstourfed.ch/Files/infothek/Vademecum/2007/Def%20Version%20englisch.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331073046/http://www.swisstourfed.ch/Files/infothek/Vademecum/2007/Def%20Version%20englisch.pdf|date=2012-03-31}}"</ref>

The total financial volume associated with tourism, including transportation, is estimated to [[Swiss franc|CHF]] 35.5 billion (as of 2010) although some of this comes from fuel tax and sales of motorway vignettes. The total [[gross value added]] from tourism is 14.9 billion. Tourism provides a total of 144,838 [[full time equivalent]] jobs in the entire country. The total financial volume of tourist lodging is 5.19 billion CHF and eating at the lodging provides an additional 5.19 billion. The total gross value added of 14.9 billion is about 2.9% of Switzerland's 2010 nominal [[gross domestic product|GDP]] of 550.57 billion CHF.<ref>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/10/02/blank/key/01.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Tourism] accessed 7 May 2012</ref><ref>[http://www.seco.admin.ch/themen/00374/00456/00458/index.html?lang=en SECO Gross domestic product - quarterly estimates] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923194412/http://www.seco.admin.ch/themen/00374/00456/00458/index.html?lang=en |date=September 23, 2010 }} accessed 7 May 2012</ref>