The city of Winterthur has developed from an important industrial city to an important service, educational, cultural and also event city. In addition to the attractiveness of the city with accommodation in all price categories as well as an appealing gastronomy scene, Winterthur also scores with event organizers due to its good accessibility by public and private transport.
With the Eulachhallen, Winterthur has an event location that has repeatedly received awards from the event industry. At this year's Swiss Location Award, the Eulachhallen received the award "Excellent" with 8.7 points in the category event halls. This makes the Eulachhallen one of the best event halls in Switzerland.
More than 58,000 event organizers and visitors, as well as an independent jury of experts, helped to evaluate the nominated locations at this year's Swiss Location Award. The Swiss Location Award aims to honor the most beautiful and best locations in Switzerland. This year it was organized for the seventh time by eventlokale.ch. Here there is a list of the winners.
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From March 1 - 31, 2023, event organizers, event professionals, guests and visitors were once again able to nominate the most beautiful locations in Switzerland for this year's Swiss Location Award. More than 1,800 locations confirmed their nomination, which is almost twice as many as last year (2022: 958 locations).
"We are impressed by the diversity and quality of the participating locations from all cantons of Switzerland. We are proud to contribute to strengthening Switzerland as an event location with the award," says Dario Jann, managing director of Eventlokale.ch and project manager of the Swiss Location Award.
Public Voting on Eventlokale.ch
From May 1 to 31, public voting will take place on Eventlokale.ch. During this time, the participating locations will collect as many positive ratings as possible to increase their chances of winning one of the coveted awards. This year's award will be presented on Tuesday, June 13, 2023.
The award is carried out by the event portal Eventlokale.ch and is considered a seal of quality in the Swiss event industry. Since 2016, the award has honored the most beautiful and best locations in ten different categories. The number of points achieved determines the award of the "Recommended", "Excellent" or "Outstanding" seal of approval. Since 2016, 1,948 locations from all over Switzerland have received awards.
The list of nominees is available here.
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28'346 organizers, visitors and location fans have decided together with an independent jury of experts:
Event halls
Hall 550 in Zurich-Oerlikon is the number one event and exhibition hall, followed by The Hall in Dübendorf and Hall 622, also in Zurich-Oerlikon.
47 locations were nominated in this year's Swiss Location Award in the category "Event halls and exhibition halls". Of these, 6 locations received the "Outstanding" seal of approval (9+ points), 11 locations received the "Excellent" seal of approval (8+ points) and 2 locations received the "Recommended" seal of approval (7+ points) and are thus officially among the "best event halls and exhibition halls in Switzerland".
For an event and trade fair hall to make it into the "best event halls in Switzerland" at the Swiss Location Award 2022, it had to have a certain floor space, be characterized by a comprehensive event infrastructure and thus be optimally suited for large corporate events, general meetings, concerts, trade fairs, sports events and much more.
Congress locations
86 locations were nominated in this year's Swiss Location Award in the category "Congress locations and conference venues". The Swisstech Convention Center in Lausanne won the Congress Locations category, followed by the Kursaal Bern and the KKL Luzern. Of all of them, 11 locations received the "Outstanding" seal of approval (9+ points), 14 locations received the "Excellent" seal of approval (8+ points) and 3 locations received the "Recommended" seal of approval (7+ points) and are thus officially among the "Best Convention Locations in Switzerland". For a hotel, conference location or congress center to make it into the "Best Congress Locations in Switzerland" at the Swiss Location Award 2022, it had to have a comprehensive congress infrastructure, a larger main hall as well as smaller side rooms for workshops and breakouts, and thus be optimally suited for medium-sized and larger congresses, conferences and corporate events lasting one or more days.
Event locations
Stadtcasino Basel took first place in the event locations category, followed by X-Tra in Zurich and the Galaaxy Hangar in Laax. 572 locations were nominated in this year's Swiss Location Award in the "Event Locations" category. Of these, 16 locations received the "Outstanding" seal of approval (9+ points), 43 locations received the "Excellent" seal of approval (8+ points) and 14 locations received the "Recommended" seal of approval (7+ points) and are thus officially among the "most beautiful event locations in Switzerland". For a location to make it into the "Most Beautiful Event Locations in Switzerland" at the Swiss Location Award 2022, it had to have an excellent event infrastructure and a stylish ambience and be suitable for different types of events of medium size such as corporate events, Christmas dinners, product presentations, concerts, private events, anniversaries, club events and much more.
Conference locations
90 locations were nominated in this year's Swiss Location Award in the category "Conference locations and seminar hotels". The Hotel Belvoir in Rüschlikon came in first place, followed by the Waldhaus Flims Wellness Resort and the Frutt Mountain Resort in Melchsee-Frutt. Of all locations, 15 locations received the "Outstanding" seal of approval (9+ points), 38 locations received the "Excellent" seal of approval (8+ points) and 9 locations received the "Recommended" seal of approval (7+ points) and are thus officially among the "most beautiful conference locations in Switzerland".
For a conference location or seminar hotel to make it into the "most beautiful conference locations in Switzerland" at the Swiss Location Award 2022, it had to have an excellent conference infrastructure and a stylish ambience and thus be suitable for seminars, meetings and further training courses lasting one or more days.
Meeting locations
The Tessinerplatz coworking lounge in Zurich was named the best meeting location, followed by the tadah coworking space in Zurich and the Welle/workspace in Bern. For a meeting location, coworking space, conference center or hotel to make it into the "most beautiful meeting locations in Switzerland" in the Swiss Location Award 2022, it had to have an ideal and inspiring meeting infrastructure and thus be optimally suited for meetings, sessions, workshops and retreats.
Event spaces, experience locations and wedding venues
The Altholzgade in Frutigen won in the category of event spaces, the Windwerk in Winterthur as best experience location. The In Lain Hotel Cadonau in Brail (pleasure venues) and the Bar am Wasser in Zurich (bars 6 clubs) were the best placed in their respective categories. Among the most beautiful wedding venues, Hotel Villa Emden in Brissago took first place.
All other categories and all awarded locations 2022 at a glance
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Spiez has positioned itself for years as a host for vacation and conference tourism, the so-called MICE - Meeting, Incentives, Congress, Events. With modern establishments, quick accessibility and the inspiring location, Spiez has developed into a top address in the MICE sector, as Spiez Marketing writes in a statement.
The Spiez hotels and event locations are accordingly delighted that their locations are among the best in Switzerland in the Swiss Location Award in the categories of conference locations, congress locations and wedding locations.
27,923 event organizers and visitors as well as an independent jury of experts helped to evaluate the nominated locations at this year's Swiss Location Award with the aim of awarding the most beautiful and best locations with one of the coveted awards. The following locations in Spiez were awarded:
- Deltapark Vitalresort - Category Conference Location
- Strandhotel Belvédère - Category Conference Location
- Eden Spiez - Category Conference Location
- Hotel Seaside & ABZ Spiez - Category Congress Location
- Loube Spiez - Category Wedding Location
The fact that these locations have made it among the most beautiful in Switzerland is the reward for the forward strategy of the Spiez location, as the statement continues. "The award shows that guests enjoy special experiences and events in the modern, great Spiez locations. To feel this means a lot to us and encourages us to continue the regional cooperation," says Manuel Fischer of Spiez Marketing. "We would like to continue to present the high quality Spiez hotels and event locations to the whole of Switzerland and strengthen Lake Thun and the Bernese Oberland with the whole region."
The Swiss Location Award was organized for the fifth time in 2021 by the event portal Eventlokale.ch. The platform has been supporting event planners in their search for locations and event planning since 2008.
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