Official statistics of tourism in Switzerland. Notable tourist destinations: Alpine (Grisons, Engadin, Davos, Wildhaus, Jungfrau, Grindelwald, Zermatt) and Cities (Zurich, Bern, Lucerne, Basel, Geneva, Lausanne, Canton Ticino, Locarno, Lugano, Ascona).
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Tourism in Switzerland Tourists are drawn to Switzerlands Alpine climate and landscapes, in particular for skiing and mountaineering. Tourism begins with British mountaineers climbing the main peaks of the Bernese Alps in the early 19th century (Jungfrau 1811, Finsteraarhorn 1812). The Alpine Club in London is founded in 1857. Reconvalescence in the Alpine climate, in particular from Tuberculosis, is another important branch of tourism in the 19th and early 20th centuries for example in Davos, Graubünden. Because of the prominence of the Bernese Alps in British mountaineering, the Bernese Oberland was long especially known as a tourist destination. Meiringens Reichenbach Falls achieved literary fame as the site of the fictional death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes(1893). The first organised tourist holidays to Switzerland were offered during the 19th century by the Thomas Cook and Lunn Travelcompanies. Statistics Official statistics of tourism were planned since 1852, but were only realized from 1