Tourism - Travel and Business

2.20CHF Travel

Postbus Swizerland with its 16 regional Postbus Centers is Swiss Post's public transport business unit, and is now serve a network of 8500 kilometers with some 1800 vehicles carrying about 90 million passengers a year. Postbus Swizerland also fulfils an important leisure and tourism function. Its mountain routes and alpine pass tour are among the most attractive lines to tourist. On the stamp, the smaller segment depicts a modern postbus, a key leisure and tourism transport service, and on the right, a couple of children - probably the customers best able to express their pleasure at going on a trip. As a carrier for popular school excursions, public transport promotes future generations of "itchy feet", enabling children to experience "travel" and "tourism" first hand.

4.00CHF Business

Our world is gradually shrinking, and the importance of being able to travel from one side of the globe to the other fast and efficiently has given air transport access to another kind of business tourism, in addition to the enormous upsurge in business travellers. The combination of air travel with well developed airports and modern facilities means more and morecongresses, seminars, workshops and similar events are being held on an international basis. As a base of some many international organization and the host of major business events like the World Economic Forum in Davos and many meetings of the UN, Swizerland appeals floods of business tourists on a regular basis. On the left of the stamp, Zurich Airport as a hub and symbol of business, and on the bigger right-hand side, a businessman on the move, dressed in a classic suit with the omnipresent rolling luggage cart that goes with the image.