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     2011 Swiss Holiday Photo Competition –                       

“The best photo snap from my holidays in Switzerland ”

 
Mail your most attractive photo
from your holidays in Switzerland 2010/2011

(file size no less than 2MB) by 15 December 2011 to
         
tosi@swiss.org.tw


(Indicate your name/address/phone/email and provide date/place of your photo taken)

 

and you may win one of the following top prizes:

 ·       1st Prize : Holiday in Switzerland - incl Air-ticket TPE-ZRH-PE; 8-day Swiss Rail Pass;

        Hotel Accommodation in Lucerne/Engelberg/Interlaken; excursions to Titlis/Jungfrau mountains
   
    (valued at NT$100,000.-; sponsored by Swiss Int’l Airlines/ Federal Vacation/Lucerne Tourism/Interlaken Tourism/Jungfrau Railways/
        Titlis Cable Car/UBS Taipei Branch)

·       2nd prize: Mountain bike (valued at NT$60,000.-;  sponsored by DT Swiss)

·       3rd prize: Swiss watch “HAMILTON” US66- 44mm (valued at NT$37,000.-;  sponsored by HAMILTON)

·       4th prize: Swiss watch “HAMILTON” Khaki Action Sunset-44mm (valued at NT$32,500.-;  sponsored by HAMILTON)

·       5th prize: Swiss watch “HAMILTON” Khaki Action- 40mm (valued at NT$26,500.-;  sponsored by HAMILTON)

·       6th prize: Cash (NT$10,000.-;  sponsored by UBS Taipei Branch)

·       7th prize: Cash (NT$5,000.-;  sponsored by UBS Taipei Branch)

·       8th prize: Cash (NT$5,000.-;  sponsored by UBS Taipei Branch)

 

A committee will select the lucky winners of the prizes at the end of December 2011.

 

Participants of this photo competition must abide the following conditions:

-   must be living in Taiwan

-   must have spent their holidays in Switzerland in 2010/2011

-   submitted photo must have been taken by the participant himself/herself (a record must be provided upon request in order to 
    become eligible to win a prize)

-   only one photo for each participant can be submitted

-   with the participation in this competition the participant agrees to ease his/her right that the photo can be used  for other promotion
    purposes by the organizer. TOSI reserves the right to discard/eliminate any photograph which infringes or could likely infringe
    third parties’ intellectual property rights.

-   the participant agrees that decisions by the TOSI appointed committee are final. All decisions by TOSI are at TOSI’s full and
    complete discretion and are final. No correspondence will be held with regard to the competition.


Organizer:
  Trade Office of Swiss Industries (TOSI)

 

Sponsors:

 

 Swiss International Air Lines Ltd.  /   Lucerne Tourism /
 

 Titlis Cable Car Co. /  Interlaken Tourism /   Federal Vacation Co. /

 DT Swiss (Asia) Ltd.  / UBS AG, Taipei Branch /  
 
 
   HAMILTON - A member of the Swatch Group
  

 

 

Welcome to Switzerland

Switzerland is a small multi-cultural, multi-lingual country located in the very heart of Europe. It shares common frontiers with five countries - Germany, France, Italy, Austria and the tiny Principality of Liechtenstein. Switzerland is therefore at the crossroads of the continent.

Whatever the season, Switzerland is a classic holiday destination. Switzerland offers a unique diversity of natural and manmade attractions. And thanks to the country's compactness and excellent public transport system, all are so easily accessible to the vacation visitor.

Switzerland offers vacation visitors a vast range of leisure and pleasure activities. Hiking, biking, golf, skiing, sailing, horse riding, tennis and trekking, these are just a few of the many sports on offer.

Entry Regulations/Visas
Click Visa for detailed information

Languages
Switzerland has four national languages: German (spoken by 64% of the population), French (19%), Italian (8%) and Romansch (1%). Knowledge and use of English are widespread in business/tourist circles.

Currency : Swiss Francs
Coins: 5, 10, 20, 50 Cents and 1, 2, 5 Francs
Bank notes: 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 1000 Francs

Credit cards such as VISA, American Express, Diners club and Eurocard are widely used. Travelers cheques in any major currency can be exchanged by banks, official exchange offices and most hotels.

Weather
Average Temperature: Temperatures tend to decrease by 0.5c for every 100m rise in altitude. Even in the summer months the mountain tops can be cool.

Average Temperatures (C High to Low)

Month

Geneva

Lugano

St.Moritz

Interlaken

Zermatt

Zurich, Bern & Luzern

Jan

4/0.1

6/0.5

-2.5/-19

2.5/-2

1/-7

3/-1

Feb 4/-3.5 7/-0.6 -1/-211.5 4/-5.5 -0.6/-10 3/-4
Mar 12/4 13.5/7 6/-5 12/3 7/-2 11/4
Apr 14/3 15/7 6.5/-6.5 13/2 7/-3 13/3.5
May 16/5.5 19/10 10/-3.5 15/4 10/-0.3 14/5.5
Jun 22/11 23/15 15/2 20/9.5 15/4 19/11
Jul 28/15 29/19 21/5 25/14 21/8.5 25/15
Aug 28/14.5 29/19.5 21/3.5 26/13.5 21/9 25.6/14.5
Sep 24/12.5 23.5/16 17/2.5 22/11 17/7 22/12
Oct 14/6 15/9 9/-4 12.3/4 10/-0.4 12/5.5
Nov 8/3 10/4 2.5/-11 6.5/0.1 4/-4.5 6.5/2
Dec 3.5/0.4 8/0.0 -2/-18 2/-4 2/-7.5 2/-3


Business Hours

Offices:

Monday - Friday (0800 - 1200, 1310 - 1730 hrs)

Banks:

Monday - Friday (0830 - 1630 hrs)

Post Offices:

Monday - Friday (0730 - 1200, 1345 - 1830 hrs)
Saturday (0730 - 1100 hrs)

Shops:

Monday - Friday (0800 - 1215, 1330 - 1830 hrs)
Saturday (0830 - 1600 hrs)


Electricity

220 volt, 50 cycles.
The power sockets differ from those used in many other countries.

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Telephone
Taiwan - Switzerland: 002-41-
Switzerland - Taiwan: 00-886-

Tax Refund
A 7.5% VAT tax is levied and included in retail prices. Shoppers can ask for a ETS cheque (tax free shopping cheque) and reclaim the VAT paid on goods bought (over Sfr 500), at the cash refund centres at Zurich and Geneva airports.

 

Swiss Holidays 2011/2012
 

Holidays celebrated in the whole of Switzerland, offices and most shops remain closed.

 

2011

2012

New Year’s Day

01 Jan

01 Jan

Good Friday

22 April

6 April

Easter Monday

24 April

8 April

Ascension Day

2 Jun

17 May
Pentecost Day 12 Jun 27 May

Whit Monday

13 Jun

28 May

Swiss National Day

01 Aug

1 Aug

Christmas Eve

24 Dec

24 Dec

Christmas

25 Dec

25 Dec

St. Stephen’s Day

26 Dec

26 Dec

New Year’s Eve

31 Dec

31 Dec

 

Holidays celebrated only in parts of Switzerland, offices and most shops remain closed in this parts.

 

2011

2012

Epiphany

2 Jan 8 Jan

St Joseph’s Day

19 Mar 19 Mar

Labor Day

1 May 1 May

Corpus Christi

23 Jun 7 Jun

St Peter and St Paul Day

29 Jun 29 Jun
Assumption of Mary 15 Aug 15 Aug

Immaculate Conception

8 Dec 8 Dec

 

Some cantons or cities celebrate their own specific holidays, such as Fasnacht (carnival) or cantonal
independence days.

See website http://www.feiertagskalender.ch (in German, English, French and Italian) for further details