世界旅游景观：第一章Switzerland.pptVIP

Appreciation of World Famous Tourist Attractions EUROPE ----THE SWISS CONFEDERATION Europe ----the Swiss Confederation I. Geographical features of the Swiss Confederation II. Politics, economy and culture III. Tourist attractions IV. Exercises I. Geographical Features of Switzerland 1. Geography Official name: Swiss Confederation Location: Central Europe, east of France, north of Italy Area: total--41,290 sq km; land--39,770 sq km; water-- 1,520 sq km Climate: temperate, but varies with altitude; cold, cloudy, rainy/snowy winters; cool to warm, cloudy, humid summers with occasional showers Land boundaries: total: 1,852 km, border countries are Austria, France, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany Coastline: landlocked Terrain: mostly mountains with a central plateau of rolling hills, plains, and large lakes Demographics: 7,252,000?(95th) Currency : euro or EUR Religion: Catholic and Protestant National flower Official language: German, French, Italian, Romansh II. Politics, Economy and Culture 1. Politics:direct democracy, neutrality 2. Economy: a prosperous and stable modern market economy, with a per capita GDP that is higher than those of the big western European economies. 3. Culture: influenced by its neighbours, but distinctive has no country-wide state religion 4. etiquette and taboo of Switzerland social interaction: elegant behavior; be very polite; cultured; respect women; on time/punctual; they like to talk about sports, tourism and politics; it’s impolite to show off wealth; value clean environment highly 11 means lucky they like the colour of red, yellow, blue, orange, green and purple. They like to eat onion Taboos: 13 and Friday mean unlucky; owl means unlucky; they don’t like to talk about diet and personal things; it’s impolite to make cutlery chinked when dinner at restaurant; champing or chewing noisily is impolite. III. tourist Attractions 1. Geneva 2. Matterhorn 3. Lake Lucerne 4. Zurich IV. Questions 1.