Swiss Travel System AG has quietly gone live with a new B2B portal, travelswitzerland.com, offering travel agents and MICE planners a one-stop shop for everything related to Switzerland’s extensive public-transport network. Soft-launched on 12 April, the site consolidates fare tables, seat-reservation tools, luggage-handling options and marketing assets that were previously scattered across dozens of PDF brochures and partner log-ins. The timing is strategic: with the EU’s Entry/Exit biometric border regime bedding in and airline strikes fuelling uncertainty, Swiss tourism bodies want to position rail and boat services as a resilient, sustainable alternative for both leisure and corporate visitors. The portal’s guided “Why, What, How” journey walks new agents through commercial arguments for selling rail passes, while power users gain direct API links into booking engines and an interactive partner-locator that routes enquiries to local representatives worldwide. For mobility managers the upgrade removes several friction points.
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Travel professionals needing to complement these transport solutions with seamless border formalities can lean on VisaHQ’s services. The company’s Switzerland hub (https://www.visahq.com/switzerland/) provides real-time visa requirements, online applications and concierge support, allowing agents to bundle rail passes and entry documents in a single customer journey—an efficient add-on that mirrors the new portal’s one-stop philosophy.
Procurement teams can download detailed product data—including validity zones, class-upgrade rules and group-quote calculators—in a machine-readable format, easing the integration of Swiss rail solutions into global online-booking tools (OBTs). The site also features bite-sized e-learning modules that qualify for continuing-professional-development credits with major travel-management-company networks. Industry response has been positive. "Having fares, maps and images in one place cuts my quote-preparation time by half," says Anika Rao, a Zurich-based inbound specialist who handles Asian MICE groups. Corporate-relocation firms appreciate the at-a-glance overview of luggage courier services, which can be pivotal when moving expatriates between cantons. Swiss Travel System plans phased enhancements, including dynamic packaging, real-time disruption alerts and carbon-footprint calculators—features that could make public transport an even stronger proposition in a market increasingly sensitive to sustainability metrics and duty-of-care obligations.
Travel professionals needing to complement these transport solutions with seamless border formalities can lean on VisaHQ’s services. The company’s Switzerland hub (https://www.visahq.com/switzerland/) provides real-time visa requirements, online applications and concierge support, allowing agents to bundle rail passes and entry documents in a single customer journey—an efficient add-on that mirrors the new portal’s one-stop philosophy.
Procurement teams can download detailed product data—including validity zones, class-upgrade rules and group-quote calculators—in a machine-readable format, easing the integration of Swiss rail solutions into global online-booking tools (OBTs). The site also features bite-sized e-learning modules that qualify for continuing-professional-development credits with major travel-management-company networks. Industry response has been positive. "Having fares, maps and images in one place cuts my quote-preparation time by half," says Anika Rao, a Zurich-based inbound specialist who handles Asian MICE groups. Corporate-relocation firms appreciate the at-a-glance overview of luggage courier services, which can be pivotal when moving expatriates between cantons. Swiss Travel System plans phased enhancements, including dynamic packaging, real-time disruption alerts and carbon-footprint calculators—features that could make public transport an even stronger proposition in a market increasingly sensitive to sustainability metrics and duty-of-care obligations.
