Touring Club Switzerland
| Touring Club Switzerland (TCS) |
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| purpose | Advocacy and services in the field of mobility |
| Chair: | Peter Goetschi |
| Executive Director: | Juerg Wittwer |
| Establishment date: | September 1, 1896 |
| Number of members: | 1.5 million (2015) |
| Seat : | Vernier |
| Website: | tcs.ch |
The Touring Club Switzerland (TCS) is a non-profit association with approximately 1.5 million members in Switzerland. As the largest mobility club in Switzerland, the TCS offers its members services in the following areas: personal assistance, vehicle assistance, legal protection, tourism and leisure. The TCS also works in the interest of the community by testing vehicles and other mobility-related products, as well as supporting road safety and electric mobility.
Its key products are membership, assistance abroad, legal protection, credit cards, driving courses and leisure activities (camping and traveling). TCS members also benefit from advantages with other Swiss providers of services and products.
history
The TCS was founded in Geneva on September 1, 1896 by 205 cyclists with the aim of developing cycling tourism. Since 1901, services have also been provided to motorists such as a petrol station list . Around 1936 the bicycle spokes disappeared from the emblem and were replaced by a stylized steering wheel.
Auto euphoria set in in the 1950s; the TCS announced: “A car is much too complex an organism to be built according to the paragraphs of a code of law (...). It can almost be compared to a living being (...). » This statement was made as a comment to the American lawyer Ralph Nader , who had called for more safety in car manufacturing. The TCS on this: "You just have to be careful not to throw out the baby with the bath water and slaughter the hen that lays the golden eggs."
As a reaction to the one-sided orientation of the TCS and the ACS , the Swiss Transport Club was founded in 1979 : All road users, including pedestrians and cyclists, should be taken seriously as road users with equal rights. The TCS has since expanded its activities.
Mobility Academy
In 2008 the " Mobility Academy " was founded as a subsidiary of the TCS and "the question of the nature of future mobility" arises. As a training institution and think tank , it tries to better understand developments and thus make them the basis for future action in the field of mobility. The “Mobilitätsakademie AG” founded the “Swiss Electric Mobility Forum” in 2010 and has been running the Swiss eMobility industry association since 2012 . Since 2013 the "Mobilitätsakademie AG" has been realizing the World Collaborative Mobility Congress (wocomoco) with the support of international partners . Since 2014, she has also been involved in bicycle traffic and, in collaboration with the Engagement Migros development fund, launched carvelo - the Swiss cargo bike initiative and eCargo bike sharing carvelo2go with the TCS as a national partner.
organization
The TCS is a non-profit organization. It defends the interests of its members in the area of mobility. It offers services such as legal protection (TCS private legal protection ), vehicle insurance (TCS auto insurance) and travel and repatriation insurance (ETI protection letter).
The TCS is divided into 24 regionally active sections. It is headed by a board of directors with 24 members and a delegate assembly of 145 members.
activities
The TCS is best known in Switzerland for its breakdown service .
Every year he tests various products - child seats, car tires, the quality of diesel fuels, ski helmets, navigation devices, etc. - as well as vehicles. The technical center that carries out these tests is located in Emmen ( Lucerne ).
The club is committed to road safety and issues brochures and leaflets for its members and schools. He participates in national campaigns that are financed by the Federal Road Safety Fund . The TCS also conducts studies on the security of the transport infrastructure.
He is invited by federal and cantonal authorities to consultations in the area of mobility.
Ten times a year, members receive the free club magazine touring , which is published in German, French and Italian. The editorial office of the press is centrally located in Bern.
The club has 20 technical centers, 24 campsites , 2 hotels in Switzerland and 14 driving training slopes.
The TCS has been a member of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile since 1998 .
Driving school centers
- Lignières driving school center
- Betzholz Center for Road Safety in Hinwil
- Stockental Center for Traffic Safety in Niederstocken
- Center for Traffic Safety Derendingen
- Driving school center Plantin
- Driving school center Emmen
TCS campsites
- TCS Camping Bern-Eymatt
- TCS Camping Buochs-Vierwaldstättersee
- TCS Camping Bönigen-Interlaken
- TCS Camping Disentis
- TCS Camping Flaach am Rhein
- TCS Camping Gampelen-Neuenburgersee
- TCS Camping Geneva-Vésenaz
- TCS Camping Gordevio-Maggia Valley
- TCS Camping Gwatt Thunersee
- TCS Camping Interlaken
- TCS Camping Lugano-Muzzano
- TCS Camping Luzern-Horw
- TCS Camping Martigny
- TCS Camping Morges
- TCS Camping Orbe
- TCS Camping Salavaux Plage
- TCS Camping Samedan
- TCS Camping Scuol
- TCS Camping Sion
- TCS Camping Solothurn
- TCS Camping St. Moritz
- TCS Camping Thusis - Viamala
- TCS camping train
TCS hotels
- Hotel «Schloss Ragaz», in Bad Ragaz
- Hotel "Bella Vista", in Vira (Gambarogno)
literature
- François Antoniazzi: The Swiss Touring Club as reflected in 100 events . 1896-1996 . Geneva 1996, ISBN 2-291-00092-6 .
- Joseph Britschgi: Manuel d'enseignement de la circulation . Geneva 1946.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Touring Club Switzerland: More than 100 years of history ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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.
- ^ Club magazine Touring from August 18, 1966
- ↑ Touring, No. 33, August 18, 1966, p. 3.
- ↑ Statutes, sur le site internet du TCS ( Memento of the original of October 28, 2007 in the internet archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 4, 2011.
