Wednesday night, we officially celebrated GetYourGuide’s launch at the Dozentenfoyer of ETH Zurich and announced the winners of this year’s Tour de Suisse competition. It was a very tight race, but in the end, Marina’s “Urchiges Appenzellerland” won the price. Congratulations and have fun traveling ;-)

The complete final ranking can be found on the Tour de Suisse page. At this point we would also like to thank our sponsors Facebook, Orange, Local.ch, MySwitzerland and Travel.ch for helping to set up this unique contest. We had a great time watching these innovative contributions being submitted and really enjoyed this final evening, when we got to see the people behind the entries.

Here are some impressions of the award ceremony:

Introducing the 20 finalists, who won the popular vote

Michel receiving his prize “A Ski-Weekend at Bettmeralp” from MySwitzerland

Isabelle Banner from Local.ch (left) awards Barbara Odermatt (right) with an iPhone for her fourth place tour

Travel.ch CEO Roland Zeller awards the “Facebook Dream Holiday” to Marina

Acknowledging Tour de Suisse’s main sponsor: Facebook!

People gathering around Orange’s stand. Their slogan is our motto: Internet Everywhere ;-)

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Dear Friends,

after an amazing race we have seen over the last two months, voting on Tour de Suisse has finally come to an end this saturday night. Cusquix’s “100% Valais, Hike & Gastro” won the popular vote (678 votes), followed by Dani’s “Airboard in Filzbach” (575 votes) and rolf’s “Bezaubernde Schneeschuhtour im Mythengebiet” (553 votes).

Next a jury will evaluate the top 20 tours (be aware that we do not count second tours in the Top 20 that were submitted by the same guide – no one can win more than one prize!) and select the winners of the prizes. The results of the final round will be announced at the awards ceremony on November 26th, 19:00h at the main building of ETH Zurich (Rämistr.101, Zurich), “Dozentenfoyer” (Restaurant on the highest level with a view all over Zurich).

The contributions have been fantastic in quality and now we are really looking forward seeing the results of your great efforts. The jury evaluating the entries and picking the winners will consist of the following experts:

- Angela Zäh, Javier Olivan (Facebook)

- Roland Zeller (Travel.ch)

- Isabelle Banner (Local.ch)

- Alfonso Llopart (MySwitzerland.com)

- Andreas Güntert (Schriftzug.ch)

In the aftermath of the event, there will be snacks and drinks for everyone and the chance to chat with some of the people involved in GetYourGuide. We would be happy, if you would find the time to come by. Please drop us a note to info (at) getyourguide.com, if you intend to come and we add you to the guest list.