Developments and challenges for the railways with special focus on tourism.

Andreas Meyer CEO SBB AG

World Tourism Forum 2009Swiss Museum of Transport Lucerne, 23 April 2009

Attractive destinations form the core of tourism offering.

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

...but act as hosts too.

We can continue to improve.

Uniform optimisation and marketing of the entire transport chain.

Using technological opportunities to rise to the challenges of combined mobility.

Today 2050Source: Siemens - Picture of the Future

Europe is getting smaller.

4-hour radius 2015 8-hour radius 2015

Rail companies are investing in new rolling stock.

Rail infrastructure must grow too.

20202006

Source: UIC 2007

V < 250 km/h V > 250 km/hPlanned >250 km/h routes