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.

Dear users, fans and supporters of GetYourGuide,

while our competition Tour de Suisse is still not even half finished, we have seen many new people coming to our site and sharing tours. Although this might sound not very spectacular to you, it is certainly special to us, as it means that the framework that we have been created during many hours of hard work withing the past couple of months is used in a creative manner. We believe that there is no better thing for creative people than to step aside the project you are working on for a brief second and see how others engage with it.

The hypothesis that underlies GetYourGuide is that there is a vast potential in tourism that is unrealised due to tideous constraints and fragmentations that have been dominating the business for many years. Seeing how you create interesting contributions to travel and international connectivity pushes me to think that we can turn around this single sided state of things. We believe that we can make a difference and help people travel in a richer way than they did before, seeing things on their travels from different perspectives.

Tour de Suisse is a competition that seeks people to design and submit creative tours in Switzerland. After the first couple of weeks, we have already seen several that I would immediatly judge to qualify for these criterions. However, let this be only a beginning of what we are able to accomplish. With your help, we all will be able to grow this website and achieve something very unique. But most importantly – to have fun doing so!

Best,

The GetYourGuide Team

We are very proud to announce that we have launched “Tour de Suisse”, a contest seeking to find the best touristic tours and activities in Switzerland. You may find it here !

Tour de Suisse offers to everyone living in Switzerland to post innovative and original tours that allow visitors to experience the country from a different perspective than when traveling on the standard touristic paths. The contest runs until November 15th and everyone can vote on the tours through an application that we designed on Facebook.

Facebook is a terrific social community that allows users to integrate APIs on their platform and make use of the powerful social graph. In our case users may create tours and then invite their friends to vote for them using Facebook. Once a friend cast a vote, the friends’ frind will see this in his/her newsfeed and may also vote for the tour. Thus, within few cycles, a creative and convincing entry to the contest may rise to the top of the competition and win one of our amazing prizes.

On November 15th midnight, the top 20 (with most votes) will qualify for the final round. In the final round a pannel of experts decides, who will take home the prizes and who is going to win the “Tour de Suisse”.

The GetYourGuide team is very much looking forward a lot to the next 2 months and we hope that the users have as much fun participating in the contest, as we had creating it. We believe it is a great opportunity for everyone in Switzerland to cause some awareness for the beauty and the endless opportunities in the country.