Switzerland Travel Center

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Switzerland Travel Center
legal form Corporation
founding 1998 (as Switzerland Destination Management AG, new name 2004)
Seat Zurich , Binzstrasse 38 Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '43.5 "  N , 8 ° 30' 44.6"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty-one thousand one hundred thirteen  /  246249World icon
management Michael Maeder, CEO
Branch Travel agency
Website [1]
Status: 2015

The Switzerland Travel Center  ( STC ) is the national travel agency in Switzerland.

History and organization

The Switzerland Destination Management AG (SDM) based in Zurich was founded in 1998 by Switzerland Tourism , the official tourism marketing organization of Switzerland, Swissair , at that time state Aviation Organization, the Swiss Federal Railways SBB, the Swiss Hotel Association (, hotelleriesuisse today SVH, entrepreneurs catering trade association) , GastroSuisse (employers' association of the hospitality industry) and Europcar (at the time a German-French car rental company).

In 2004 it was  renamed Switzerland Travel Center AG. The name comes from the Switzerland Travel Center Ltd., which was taken over in 1999 . in London. At the end of 2005 - after the collapse of Swissair - the majority of STC with 57% was taken over by SBB, Switzerland Tourism held 33%, as did the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon-Bahn  (BLS), the Jungfrau Railways and the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn  (MGB), the Montreux-Oberland-Bahn  (MOB) and the Rhaetian Railway  (RhB) each 2%. In 2011 the German subsidiary Switzerland Travel Center  GmbH was founded in Stuttgart.

Since 2012 hotelleriesuisse has again played a key role in the STC Group.

The main office is in Zurich- Binz . Michael Maeder has been in charge of the company since 2011.

Agendas

By operating its own travel agent, Switzerland can implement economic policy concerns through close cooperation between national tourism marketing and public and private traders, also in terms of a public supply infrastructure, which is of fundamental importance for a tourist country. The tourism in Switzerland has with roughly 8% indirect supply a significant share of the overall economy, within the Alps, the proportion is much higher. This means that a marketable travel agency is a direct tool for state, cantonal and communal structural support and economic location promotion.

As the “official holiday broker of Switzerland Tourism”, the Switzerland Travel Center processes over 270,000 contacts with interested parties in Switzerland as a holiday destination every year.

The company operates its own service centers in Zurich, Stuttgart (subsidiary) and London (international office).

In addition, STC has its own reservation system on the Internet with a comprehensive range of bookable services that is used by over 200 partners worldwide. The hotel booking platform is offered in six languages. At the same time, the sale of rail products and round trips is offered. In addition to their own website, booking is also made via MySwitzerland.com (Switzerland Tourism), swiss.com ( Swiss International Air Lines , SWISS) and sbb.ch (SBB). There is also close cooperation with e-domizil AG for the brokerage of holiday apartments , whose offers are also run via this platform, a Switzerland Tourism subsidiary in the German e-domizil group.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c About Switzerland Travel Center AG (STC). stc.ch (accessed June 19, 2015).
  2. ↑ a b c Change in management at STC Switzerland Travel Center AG: Michael Maeder becomes the new managing director. Media release, December 15, 2011 (on sbb.ch).
  3. ↑ a b c d 10 years of STC Switzerland Travel Center AG. Media release, March 10, 2008 (on stc.ch, news archive ).
  4. ↑ Switzerland Destination Management AG (SDM) is now operating under the name Switzerland Travel Center. Media release, May 10, 2004 (on stc.ch)
  5. ↑ a b About us ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stc.co.uk archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , stc.co.uk;
    STC London. stc.ch.
  6. ↑ a b STC Stuttgart. stc.ch.
  7. ↑ Realignment of the STC Switzerland Travel Center ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.swisstourfed.ch archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Media release, June 5, 2012 (on swisstourfed.ch).
  8. ↑ a b Partnership between hotelleriesuisse and STC Switzerland Travel Center. in gastrofacts.ch → Industry News ( undated , 2011).
  9. ↑ a b Switzerland Travel Center AG (STC AG) , stc.ch (homepage, accessed June 19, 2015).
  10. ↑ Advantages of STC. stc.ch (accessed June 19, 2015).
  11. ↑ STC Switzerland Travel Center / e-domizil. stnet.ch: partner ;
    The e-domizil group of companies. e-domizil.de
  12. ↑ e-domizil with sales growth in Switzerland as a holiday destination. In: htr.ch . January 27, 2020, accessed January 30, 2020 .