Geneva's January Calendar Fills Before the Ski Week Is Over

GENEVA - Late January stacked human rights reviews and humanitarian briefings at the Palais des Nations, a quieter counterpart to the Davos week just closed. Missions sent the staff who do not need a mountain backdrop. Tram 15 ran full toward Nations at 8:40 a.m.

Hotels between the station and the lake treated it as a normal winter peak. For the canton these weeks are the argument for international Geneva: jobs, rents, and a second language on the bus.

A year of rooms

May will bring a denser health fortnight, as in our later health meetings report. January is the reminder that the Palais does not really have an off season.