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55 Special Edition Switzerland NEED PLANNING ASSISTANCE? The Switzerland Convention & Incentive Bureau is a national non-profit organisation that can help with planning incentive trips. Its services, which are free of charge, include researching appropriate destinations and venues, assisting with site inspections, drawing up dossiers, and more. myswitzerland.com/meetings ONE-OF-A-KIND EVENT VENUES If you’re combining both work and play on your incentive trip, you’ll be glad to know that Switzerland offers top-notch – and often unusual – facilities for business events. You can opt to hold a gala dinner in a historic castle, a workshop in the middle of a vineyard, or even a seminar on a chartered train. These memorable settings will surely enliven even the dullest of meetings. A HUB OF EXPERTISE With its world-class research institutions and education centres, Switzerland is great for knowledge exchange – perfect if you’re looking to add value to your incentive trip. Many of these institutions, such as ETH Zurich and the University of St. Gallen, welcome visiting groups, so your employees can expand their knowledge both within and beyond their immediate business sphere – on topics ranging from finance to pharmaceuticals to biotechnology. A COUNTRY THAT RUNS LIKE CLOCKWORK Finally, much like the fine watches it is so adept at producing, Switzerland is a country that runs like clockwork. It is renowned for its economic and political stability, largely thanks to its armed neutrality policy in global affairs. It percolates down to civil society: industrial action and religious conflict are rare, which means that Switzerland is one of the world’s safest countries for an incentive trip. What’s more, the country’s excellent public transport infrastructure is highly conducive for group travel. For instance, parties of ten or more persons can make group reservations on trains, buses, and boats entirely free of charge. There’s also a baggage service for transporting your group’s belongings between hotels, airports, and train stations, giving you more time and energy to discover what Switzerland has to offer.