World Tourism Forum 2009

1. Developments and challenges for the railways
with special focus on tourism.
Andreas Meyer
CEO SBB AG
World Tourism Forum 2009
Swiss Museum of Transport
Lucerne, 23 April 2009

2. Attractive destinations form the core of tourism offering.

3. The railways not only help bring tourists to the centers of the
destinations...

4. ...but act as hosts too.

5. We can continue to improve.

6. Uniform optimisation and marketing of the entire transport
chain.

7. Using technological opportunities to rise to the challenges of
combined mobility.
Today 2050
Source: Siemens - Picture of the Future

8. Europe is getting smaller.
4-hour radius 2015 8-hour radius 2015

9. Rail companies are investing in new rolling stock.

10. Rail infrastructure must grow too.
2006 2020
V < 250 km/h Planned >250 km/h routes V > 250 km/h
Source: UIC 2007