Switzerland Tourism is launching an initiative to help foreign tourists familiarise themselves with Swiss customs.
https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/ruecksicht-auf-einheimische-neue-kampagne-touristen-sollen-sich-an-schweizer-regeln-halten
Posted by BezugssystemCH1903
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Good. This will help some oblivious locals too that could really learn a thing or two. Everybody will benefit.
No need, since they hardly encounter any Swiss people on their shitty tour from Zurich to Lauterbrunnen.
All this and then crackheads at bienne station are the first ones to be dirty drunk and high in stations and trains. There is a point where the government entities still havent seen that even Switzerland has changed. Just put your head down and keep being naive
Call me cynical but are a few posters going to make much difference to how anyone acts?
It would be interesting to see the opinion on tourists in Bern broken down by region. I suspect that the good people of Tramelan and Walterswil will have a very different experience to those in Brienz or Bern itself.
The tourists who stand out for the wrong reasons are generally not the same ones who will read such posters and are open to such recommendations.
lol signs… the many times i‘ve been in the car with a co-worker that is a foreigner none of them would pay attention to signs not even on the road… whenever we passed a “glatteis” warning on the road and i would mention it they would be surprised and be like “huh? how do you know?”
Will the lovely folks gathering around the gas station near my apartment respect quiet? Unfortunately they are not tourists but love revving their engines and being loud late at night.. oh and my personal favorite – those who bring the subwoofer to the lake near my apartment 🙂
We don’t need posters, we need fucking education and well behaved twats. That include locals.
China should‘ve made one of these for Herr Fischer.
Don’t bring a cubic meter of luggage on the train. Thank you. The end.
> “Sometimes we feel like as if we were in Beijing or Mumbai.”
Of course the first interviewee drops some casual racism…no, Sir, the only moment and place I “feel like in Beijing or Mumbai” is on the A1 from Wallisellen to Birrfeld at 16:30h because there are way too many cars and way, way, waaaay to many idiots zigzaging between completely full lanes and/or making crazy dangerous manoeuvres (stopping on the emergency lane and then cut through 5 lanes only to get blocked in-between that locks everything further down! And it’s not because of someone’s melanine rate, no, just their brains needed 5 minutes longer into the oven.
BTW tourists who brings us money and reputation get scapegoated, how about the social cases casually smoking meth and throwing punches at everybody around them at random times of the day and at any middle size railway station?
What about the football and hockey fans who travel around and spray their sports bs that nobody cares on private property? Or even better, the one working are at dismantling our feeling of safety through spaying trains and destroying bus stops in the countryside?
Amd what about the rich spoilt brats who are too pretty to put their rubbish in the binand just say that “littering is practical” as “I pay for streets sweepers” instead.
I’ve never seen any single foreign tourist litter or needlessly occupying seats on the train with bags and what not…only local people…
It’s towards those parasites that we need more sensibilisation and repression.
Since when is ‘support local businesses’ a Swiss custom?
Maybe referring our penchant to subsidise corporations…
> Respect private property; ask before taking photos; be considerate in quiet places; support local businesses;
are those swiss values? or are those just normal human values? this campaign is stupid
they could have picked so many more typically swiss things but no, just pick some random shit