Geneva, known as the “carrefour de nations” or “crossroad of nations,” is a unique international city, with 40% of its population of different origins and cultures.  A city of peace. 

Geneva plays host to more then 200 international organizations - the UN European headquarters, the UN Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the International Labor Organization (ILO), the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), to name a few. And as home to major trade pacts, Geneva is the ideal location for the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Geneva has sheltered successive waves of refugees over the centuries. They brought the leading technologies of their era - printing, watch making and textile manufacture.  Today it hosts a number of key industries such luxury watch making, private banking, high technology companies and several European headquarters of multinational corporations.  CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory, and birthplace of the World Wide Web, attracts to Geneva thousands of researchers from all over the world.

It is therefore not surprising that the city has become a very busy top conference centre. The cross-fertilization of ideas encourages action, an open mind and an objective view of the world.
As an open city, Geneva's amazing power of assimilation and integration makes you soon feel at home. Perhaps it's the city's genius for maintaining traditional values in a modern context that makes it unique.  We look forward to welcome you to “our” city for the ECC 2008.

Find more info's... Geneva Tourism  and My Switzerland