The Swiss ski resort of Davos located at 1,560 m in the Alpes, is the highest town in Europe. The 46th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum which brings together thousands of high-profile delegates in business, finance and governance from around the globe, opens on January 20 in Davos. The unique and beautiful world’s elites meeting place - in this gallery by TASS.
Davos: hosting high-profile guests of the World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum bringing together annually leading representatives of the political and business elites, opens on January 20 in the Swiss ski resort of Davos
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Main entrance of the congress center where the World Economic Forum (WEF) takes place in Davos, Switzerland
© AP Photo/Michel Euler General view of Davos before the opening of the 46th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum
© EPA/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT Member of Swiss special police forces on the roof of the Kongress Hotel next to the Congress Center, on the eve of the opening of the 46th Annual Meeting of the WEF
© EPA/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT An exterior view of the conference center in Davos
© EPA/GIAN EHRENZELLER The entourage with US vice president Joe Biden arriving in Black Hawk and Super Puma helicopters
© EPA/GIAN EHRENZELLER Satya Nadella, Microsoft Corporation CEO and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook CEO at a panel session the first day of the 46th Annual Meeting of the WEF
© EPA/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde speaking during a panel session on the first day of the WEF in Davos
© EPA/LAURENT GILLIERON US actor Leonardo DiCaprio receiving a Crystal Award at WEF. The World Economic Forum's annual Crystal Award honours artists whose important contributions are improving the state of the world
© EPA/LAURENT GILLIERON Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, US Rapper Will.i.am, Chinese actress Yao Chen, US actor Leonardo DiCaprio and German Hilde Schwab, CEO and Co-Founder of Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and German Klaus Schwab, founder and president of the World Economic Forum, seen after the Crystal Award Ceremony in Davos
© EPA/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT Participants trying out virtual reality glasses watching the world premiere of the virtual reality film 'Collisions' inside the Congress Center the first day of the WEF, in Davos
© EPA/LAURENT GILLIERON Security zone at the congress center in Davos
© AP Photo/Michel Euler Residents of Davos walking past the congress center
© AP Photo/Michel Euler