NOGA 55 · 56 · 79
Hotels and inns, holiday flats, restaurants and tea rooms, bars, catering, travel agencies and tour operators: for drinks and food suppliers, providers of POS and booking software and anyone who wants to reach hosts in tourist regions.
Our Swiss database holds 1,005,992 records (as of 4 November 2026): the entities in the commercial register and places from Overture Maps without a match. They are not yet assigned to industries; the quotation states the size available for this industry, the reference date and the delivery date.
Export of the whole industry: CHF 389 (final price). Selections by canton, municipality, language region or your own filters are quoted on request.
Official statistics: 30,049 businesses in Switzerland according to FSO, STATENT, table px-x-0602010000_106 (reference year 2024, table updated 20 August 2026). Divisions 55 accommodation (5,091), 56 food and beverage service (22,900) and 79 travel agencies and tour operators (2,058) combined. This is the size of the market, not the size of our database.
This industry combines NOGA divisions 55 accommodation and 56 food and beverage service with 79 travel agencies and tour operators. According to the FSO (STATENT 2024), restaurants, snack bars, tea rooms and ice cream parlours (56.10.01) are by far the largest type with 18,698 businesses, plus 2,648 hotels and inns with a restaurant and 1,793 bars.
Bakeries with a café are called “bakeries – tea rooms” in NOGA and belong to retail (47.24.02); hotel chains headquartered abroad only appear with their Swiss company.
| NOGA 2008 | Official title | For your selection |
|---|---|---|
| 55.10 | Hotels and similar accommodation | with and without restaurant (Swiss types 55.10.01 and 55.10.02) |
| 55.20 | Holiday and other short-stay accommodation | holiday flats and houses, group accommodation |
| 56.10 | Restaurants and mobile food service activities | including restaurants offering accommodation |
| 56.21 | Event catering activities | 1,351 businesses (STATENT 2024) |
| 56.30 | Beverage serving activities | bars, discos, dance halls, night clubs |
| 79.1 | Travel agency and tour operator activities | 915 travel agencies and 611 tour operators |
There is no federal register of hospitality businesses. The cantons are responsible.
These 16 columns are planned.
In tourist regions many businesses open seasonally. If you call a mountain business in Valais or Graubünden in May, you often reach nobody. Plan campaigns by season and region.
Restaurants change operator more often than other businesses. With older lists, check whether name and operator are still correct, and match your data via the UID where available.
Small hospitality businesses are often run as sole proprietorships. Their data are personal data under the Data Protection Act; respect any objection to advertising.
We are a wine merchant and are looking for restaurants (56.10) and hotels with a restaurant (55.10.01) in the cantons of Graubünden and Ticino that have a website. How many records is that, and how many have a phone number?
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Select restaurants and hotels per canton for visits and tastings.
Approach hospitality businesses of a given size and region for product presentations.
Invite hosts in a destination to partner programmes by post.
Point hotels and restaurants to available staff before the season.
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Planned once the records carry a NOGA code; until then we check the definition in the quotation. The Swiss NOGA types separate hotels with a restaurant (55.10.01), hotels without a restaurant (55.10.02), holiday flats (55.20.01) and restaurants offering accommodation (56.10.02).
No. “Bakeries – tea rooms” belong to retail (47.24.02) and are under Retail and shops. For a campaign aimed at cafés, both industries can be combined.
According to the FSO (STATENT 2024), 18,698 businesses of the type “restaurants, snack bars, tea rooms and ice cream parlours” and 598 restaurants offering accommodation. The number of venues is higher because one business can run several outlets.
30,049 businesses in Switzerland according to FSO, STATENT, table px-x-0602010000_106 (reference year 2024, table updated 20 August 2026). Divisions 55 accommodation (5,091), 56 food and beverage service (22,900) and 79 travel agencies and tour operators (2,058) combined. This is an official statistic, not the size of our dataset.
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