World Tourism Award: Geneva the best city for recreation in Europe in 2014

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

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

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

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

The official in the office of tourism boycott the Geneva Christel Johntina 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 comes after them tourists Emiratis number reached 52.076 tourists or the equivalent ratio of 28.3% . 

The Qataris tourists occupied the third place at the rate of 19.042 tourists or the equivalent of 10.3%, followed by Kuwaitis 16.101 tourists increased by 8.7%, and Bahrainis 14.749 8.2%, and the Omanis 5383 tourists increased by 2.9%. 

They are the numbers of tourist nights only ie they include tourist who come down in a hotel or an apartment or house Residential pays his rent, and does not include tourists who spend their holidays in the housing of their own, or when the knowledge to them where they go in the calculation of the number of tourists entering 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%.

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