Name: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2027
Start: 2027-01-18
End: 2027-01-22
Location: Davos Congress Centre

Five January days in an Alpine town of 11,000, when about 3,000 government, corporate and civil-society figures work through one congress centre.

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The Annual Meeting is the World Economic Forum's flagship gathering, held each January in Davos, a Graubunden ski town at roughly 1,560 metres. The Forum reports around 3,000 participants a year, drawn from governments, its member companies, international organisations, universities, non-profits and the press, working through 400 to 500 sessions in five days at the Davos Congress Centre.

The week has two layers that barely resemble each other. Inside the Congress Centre a published programme runs against an annual theme — A Spirit of Dialogue in 2026 — with plenaries, panels and a large volume of bilateral meetings booked into small rooms. Outside, the Promenade, Davos's single long main street, is leased for the week by companies, consultancies, national delegations and technology firms, which convert shopfronts and hotel lobbies into temporary pavilions. Each controls its own door, and a Congress Centre badge does not open all of them.

Without a badge the town is still legible: the Promenade is walkable and the trains and cafes run, under heavy police and army presence. What is closed is the Congress Centre itself.

01重要性说明

No other week puts this many heads of government, central bankers, chief executives and institutional investors inside one building. The Forum describes roughly 3,000 people from more than 110 countries, and the meeting's practical value has always been the density of unscheduled conversation rather than the panels, which are streamed free. In our reading, Davos matters less as a place where decisions are made than as the week in which the year's economic argument is set. It is also the most persistently criticised gathering on this calendar, and the criticism is part of what keeps it consequential.

02前后一周

Davos in the third week of January stops being a ski resort. The Promenade is closed to ordinary traffic and fenced in sections, army units man checkpoints on the approach roads, and the Swiss authorities impose an airspace restriction over the valley. Hotel dining rooms, sports shops and bakeries are sublet as branded houses; the lifts keep running but their customers thin out. The Swiss press reports each year on shop rents reaching multiples of a normal month's takings. Almost all of the surrounding programme runs on separate invitation lists. The Forum has also long run an Open Forum of free public sessions, the one part of the week built for people without a badge.

03抵达时间

Participants arrive Sunday or early Monday and leave Thursday evening or Friday; the Congress Centre thins by Friday lunchtime. Road checks and rail crowding peak on Monday morning, and Tuesday and Wednesday are the fullest days on the Promenade.

04住宿地点

Davos has two centres, Platz and Dorf, strung along one valley road; the Congress Centre and the secure zone sit in Platz, where the Forum contracts most of the hotels it designates. Landmarks along the Promenade such as the Belvedere and the Seehof fall inside the security perimeter and are unavailable to walk-in guests. The realistic alternatives are Klosters over the pass, Chur and Landquart down the valley, and the Prattigau villages on the rail line. Staying in town buys the Promenade at night; staying down the valley buys a normal rate and a long commute.

05出入与接待

The Annual Meeting is not ticketed in any ordinary sense. Participation is by invitation, and the largest route in is corporate: partner companies receive delegate places against annual membership, tiered from member to Industry Partner to Strategic Partner, with an additional per-person admission fee. Published figures for those tiers are historic and none is quoted here as current. Public figures, academics, NGO representatives and accredited journalists attend without paying. Badges are colour-coded and hierarchical, from the white delegate badge down to hotel-only and accredited badges.

06社交活动场所

The Promenade is the week's public spine, and walking it end to end in the evening is the closest thing to an open programme. The Belvedere and Seehof terraces, the Schatzalp funicular, the Kirchner Museum and the restaurants around Davos Platz station absorb most of the traffic that is not behind a door. Klosters, twenty minutes away, is the overflow. The branded houses run daytime programming frequently open to anyone who registers online.

07如何抵达

商业航空Zurich Airport is the practical gateway, about two and a half hours away by train with one change at Landquart. Basel and Geneva add two hours or more.

铁路Swiss Federal Railways to Landquart, then the Rhaetian Railway up the Prattigau to Davos Dorf and Davos Platz. Trains run roughly hourly and are reinforced during the meeting.

汽车About 150 km from Zurich via the A3 and A13. Expect police checkpoints on the approaches and severe parking restrictions in Davos Platz.

私人航空Davos has no airport. Business aviation uses Zurich, Dubendorf, St Gallen-Altenrhein and Samedan; annual counts of Davos-week private-jet movements published by charter brokers and campaign groups are a fixture of the coverage.

直升机Helicopter transfers into the valley are the standard last leg from the Swiss airports, flown under the temporary airspace restrictions.

08实用信息

着装Business dress with mountain footwear, the meeting's signature look: suits, overcoats and snow boots. The Promenade is icy and walked rather than driven, so the boots are not an affectation.

天气January is Davos's coldest month. At about 1,560 metres, daytime temperatures normally sit at or below freezing, nights well below, and continuous snow cover is the norm.

周边交通The town is walkable end to end in about forty minutes along the Promenade, usually faster than driving. Shuttle buses serve badge holders; ordinary taxis are scarce and booked hours ahead.

酒店Davos has limited stock and the Forum contracts much of it far ahead. Without an allocation, look to Klosters, Chur, Landquart or the Prattigau villages, and book the summer before.

餐厅Most restaurants inside the perimeter are taken over as houses or run on private lists. Public dining concentrates on Davos Dorf, the mountain restaurants and Klosters, all of which fill early.

预订时间Rooms in Davos and Klosters are commonly gone by the previous summer; tables in town are unobtainable on the day and need weeks of notice.

门票There is no public ticket. Attendance is by Forum invitation, through corporate partnership, public office, academic or civil-society standing, or press accreditation. The full session programme is streamed free and archived.

接待活动The Forum's own hospitality is bundled into partnership tiers and is not sold separately. The visible hospitality belongs to the companies and delegations leasing Promenade premises; several publish open registration for daytime sessions.

09历史

Klaus Schwab, then a business professor at the University of Geneva, convened the first meeting in January 1971 as the European Management Forum, a seminar on American management technique for European executives. The organisation took its present name in 1987, by which time the meeting had turned diplomatic: Greece and Turkey signed the Davos Declaration here in 1988, F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela met at the 1992 meeting, and a draft Israeli-Palestinian agreement was negotiated in 1994. The 2002 edition moved to New York after the September 11 attacks. Schwab stepped down as chair in April 2025.

10相关人士

Heads of state and government and their ministers; central bankers and regulators; chief executives and boards of the Forum's member companies; institutional investors and private-capital principals; technology founders; heads of UN agencies and multilateral banks; academics, union leaders and NGO directors; and roughly 500 accredited journalists.