Swiss Holiday Park
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 Swiss Holiday Park (2017) |
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Morschach , Switzerland
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| opening | 1982 | |||
| Visitors | 600,000 a year | |||
| surface | 15.5 hectares | |||
| staff | 260 | |||
| Website | https://www.swissholidaypark.ch/ | |||
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The Swiss Holiday Park is a holiday and leisure resort in Switzerland . The park is visited by around 600,000 people (day visitors and holidaymakers) every year. The operator is Swiss Holiday Park AG.
history
From the end of the 19th century until the stock market crash in 1929, Morschach was a popular retreat for aristocrats, industrialists, merchants and kings (e.g. Queen Victoria of Great Britain or King Ludwig II of Bavaria). Tourism was hit hard by the Great Depression and World War II .
In 1982 the first larger Hotel Axenfels was opened. Later the amusement park, additional sleeping facilities and the park's congress center were realized and completed in 1996.
In 2002 the Schwyzer Kantonalbank took over the operating company of the park ( Swiss Holiday Park AG ). The Holiday Park positions itself as a cross-generational leisure, sport, wellness and business resort.
Accommodation offer
The park has 900 beds in holiday apartments, multi-bed rooms, a 3-star guest house and a 4-star hotel.
Offer (extract)
The park offers the following indoor and outdoor recreational opportunities:
- Sports and games offer (outdoor go-kart track, mini golf course, zip line , indoor climbing wall, bowling alley, fitness center with group courses , squash, tennis, badminton field, etc.)
- Adventure farm (farm with riding lessons, stable visits, milk room with milk machine, etc.)
- Adventure pool & wellness offer (including sauna area, spa, pool area, adventure slides, etc.)
- Food offer with different pubs and restaurants
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Tourism history in-depth text , Lucerne , accessed on July 18, 2018
- ↑ History of the village Morschach , community Morschach , accessed on July 18, 2018
- ↑ Linus Birchler: The art monuments of the canton Schwyz, Volume II: The districts of Gersau, Küssnacht and Schwyz. Art historical overview. (= Swiss art monuments. Volume 2). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1930.
- Jump up history, Berner Zeitung , April 22, 2002
- ↑ The illusion of the return to the «Belle Epoque» , Gerhard Murer, magazine: Heimatschutz = Patrimoine, volume: 91 (1996), p. 27
- ^ Josef Wiget: Morschach. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 17, 2009. Retrieved July 25, 2018 .
- ^ Morschach / Bank takes over Holiday Park, Luzerner Zeitung , front page, January 8, 2002
- ↑ Schwyzer KB sells the Swiss Holiday Park , November 18, 2010, accessed on July 18, 2018
- ^ Conrad Beyer: Ludwig II in the Grand Hotel Axenstein. In: Franziska Schläpfer. Central Switzerland for hand luggage. Around Lake Lucerne. Zurich 2011. pp. 122–138.
- ↑ Swiss Holiday Park has the warmest beds of all Swiss hotels , GastroFacts (Swiss portal), accessed on July 18, 2018