It is safe, has excellent health and hygiene indicators states the WEF study. The transport and tourism infrastructure are also among the best in the world, making it very easy and comfortable for visitors to move around the country. Further, the country's natural and cultural resources are among the richest in the world.

The natural environment is assessed as being among the most pristine in the world (ranked 9th). On environmental sustainability, Switzerland is ranked second. Switzerland boasts of excellent ground transport infrastructure (ranked first worldwide), with top-quality roads and railroads and an excellent domestic transport network.

The tourism infrastructure is ranked 7th, with readily available hotel rooms and automated teller machines (ATMs) for cash withdrawals. Such high-quality infrastructure makes a tourist's stay in the country easy and comfortable, an experience that is reinforced by the high level of general safety and security (ranked 8th).

International tourist arrivals (thousands), 2007 -- 8,448
International tourism receipts (US$ millions), 2007 --12,182

Image:Skiers on a chairlift at Les Crosets, 120 kilometres ( 76 miles) east of Geneva. | Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters

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