Destination: Poland

Lubelskie:

• Clean natural environment and areas offering good conditions for leisure:
• Kazimierz Dolny - town of artists,
• Leczyńsko-Włodawskie Lake District - vast forest area,
• Roztocze - diversified, uplandish terrain and picturesque tourist destinations,
• Puszcza Solska and Lasy Janowskie - enormous area covered with forests, rarely met in Europe,
• Zalew Zemborzycki - artificial lake,
• Janów Podlaski - beatiful stud and the largest in the world exhibition of Arab horses „Pride of Poland”.
• Numerous monuments:
• historic: museums and places related to martyrdom,
• religious: pilgrimage locations, catholic and orthodox sanctuaries.
• Numerous national parks of significant importance for the promotion of eco-tourism and agro-tourism:
• Podlaski Przełom Bugu,
• Małopolski Przełom Wisły,
• Rezerwat Biosfery „Polesie Zachodnie”,
• Wyżyna Lubelska i Wołyńska,
• Polesie Wołyńskie - Parki Krajobrazowe: Chełmski i Strzelecki,
• Roztoczański Park Narodowy,
• Poleski Park Narodowy.
• Spas:
• Nałęczów - European cardiological spa.
• Traditions in horse breeding:
• stud of Arab horses in Janów Podlaski,
• stud in Białka,
• Polish horse breed in Roztoczański Parku Narodowym (national park).
• Foreign investors in tourism and leisure sector:
• Lublin Grand Hotel Sp. z o.o.,
• Mercure - Unia - Accor Hotels,
• Campanille,
• Spa Nałęczów.

Location: "Theatre in construction" - Lublin
Area:
0.4825 ha
Purpose:
congress centre

Małopolskie:

• Favourable natural conditions:
• location in the area of valleys and highlands (Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska),
• 60% of the area is covered by Karpaty Zachodnie,
• 6 national parks and others,
• protected land constitutes 58.3% of the total area,
• water supply - 14.2% of the country's supplies.
• Numerous spas created on the basis of mineral water supplies:
• Szczawnica,
• Krynica (23 mineral water springs),
• Muszyna,
• Piwniczna,
• Rabka,
• Swoszowice.
• Historical and cultural heritage of Małopolska:
• Kraków is a best recognized Polish city abroad and most recognized Polish tourist brand.
• 5 out of 12 Polish objects listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List are located in Małopolska:
• salt mine in Wieliczka,
• historical centre of Kraków,
• former concentration camp Auschwitz - Birkenau,
• construction complex in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska,
• wooden churches of Southern Poland: Binarowa, Dębno, Lipnica Murowana, Sękowa.
• Well-developed network of accomodations for tourists:
• 1. place in Poland in terms of tourists using accomodation,
• 2. place in Poland in terms of the number of foreign tourists.

Potocki Palace in Krzeszowice


Location: Potocki Palace in Krzeszowice
Area:
14.7 ha (including park covering an area of 12.42 ha),
usable space of the building - 6,612 m2.
 Advantages:
Palace erected in 1850-1857. Until 1939 belonged to Potocki family
full technical infrastructure,
designation of the building - conference and hotel centre.

Podlaskie:

• Outstanding natural features of the voivodship:
• swamps, forests (30% of the voivodship area),
• numerous lakes and water routes,
• over 30% of the area is subject to environmental protection:
• Augustów Wilderness, one of the largest of this kind in Poland,
• Augustów Channels - attractive water routes,
• Białowieski National Park - one of the best preserved primaeval forests in Europe - since 1979 on the World Heritage List,
• Biebrzański National Park - the largest national park in Poland,
• Narwiański National Park - referred to as „Polish Amazonia”,
• Wigierski National Park - in 1975 enlisted on the International Environmental Protection Union of the most precious parks in the world,
• in terms of cultural heritage Podlasie is the most diversified region in the country.
• Clean natual environment:
• voivodship referred to as „Green Lungs of Poland”.
• Numerous opportunities for tourism:
• water tourism,
• spa tourism,
• environmental-recreational tourism,
• business tourism.
• Important national routes:
• Via Baltica, merging Scandinavia and northern Russia with Central and Western Europe.

Location: Hajnówka
Area:
26 ha,
area located at the western end of the Białowieski National Park.
Purpose:
recreational-tourist complex.

Pomorskie:

• Favourable natural conditions:
• diversity of landscape (forests - 36% of the total voivodship area, 450 lakes, Baltic Sea),
• National Parks (Słowiński National Park - world heritage of UNESCO),
• 9 landscape parks (Mierzeja Wiślana and Helska, lake districts and forests=
• migrating dunes (the highest among them has 32 metres),
• sandy beaches,
• favourable climate
• Diversity of tourist attractions:
• possibility of practicing water sports (yachting, canooing, windsurfing),
• high cliffs (excellent for paragliding),
• architectural monuments (museums, churches and monasteries, castles),
• 42 Pomeranian towns with rich cultural and historic heritage,
• sea resorts,
• roughly 2,500 km of walking routes, local and European bicycle routes and numerous routes for horse riding,
• cruises to Russia and Bornholm.
• Hotel and dining base:
• well-developed network of hotels (264, including 49 operating whole year),
• 53 conference and congress centres - 4. place in Poland,
• 1. place in the country in terms of the number of seasonal outlets,
• experienced labour.
• Foreign capital in the sector:
• Culture and Entertainment Centre Gemini (share of American capital),
• Holiday Inn (American),
• Hotel Mercure (share of French capital),
• Amusement centre Tivoli (planned Dannish investment).
• Proper scientific base:
• qualified staff,
• network of profiled schools:
• Physical Education and Sport Academy in Gdańsk,
• Tourism and Hotel University in Gdańsk,
• Hotel-Gastronomic School in Gdynia,
• Service Schools in Gdynia,
• Commercial Schools in Sopot,
• Maritime Schools in Gdańsk,
• Pomerania Regional Tourism Organization (organizing numerous trainings and international workshops for tourism employees).
• Priority direction in the Pomerania Development Strategy:
• separate chapter is designated to Tourism Development Strategy.

 


Location: Malbork
Area:
31 000 m2
Current use:
city market,
living quarters.
Designated for:
conference-hotel centre

Śląskie:

• Diversified natural conditions favourable to the development of tourism:
• mountains,
• calciferous rocks,
• caves,
• forests with unique features (30% of the region's area),
• 21,9% of region's environment is protected
• 8 Landscape Parks.
• Natural environment attractive for tourists:
• walking and bicycle routes - landscape advantages,
• speleology and climbing - Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska,
• horse-riding clubs and studs,
• skiing sports,
• paragliding and gliding,
• agrotourism.
• Numerous monuments:
• Mansion in Woszczyce,
• Mansion in Świerklaniec,
• Castle in Chałupki,
• Mansion in Rybna,
• Mansion Czarny Las,
• Mansion Promnice,
• Castle and park in Pszczyna.
• Favorable conditions and investment opportunities:
• joint, trans-border tourism policy with the Czech Republic and Slovakia for the purpose of raising attractiveness of mountain areas,
• good location thanks to the proximity of borders and numerous transport opportunities,
• opportunities for developing tourist infrastructure,
• agrotourism - possibility of expanding tourist facilities.

Location: "Orle Gniazdo" complex, Szczyrk - Beskid Śląski 700 metres ASL
Area:
7.2 ha,
usable area of facilities - 17,302 m2
Purpose:
Congress-Recreational Centre.
Advantages:
full technical infrastructure.

Świętokrzyskie (alternative tourism and spa):

• Area with particular natural and climate features:
• 66% of the total area constitute legally protected areas,
• numerous national and landscape parks,
• large area covered with forests, attractive water basins,
• good condition of natural environment.
• Rich deposits of natural water:
• 3. place in Poland in terms of mineral water deposits.
• Proximity of other urban agglomerations:
• Kraków, Katowice, Warszawa, Łódź,
• region easily available for tourists.
• Extensive spa base:
• healing and rehabilitation,
• most renown spas: Busko-Zdrój, Solec-Zdrój, Nida-Zdrój, Czarniecka Góra,
• natural environment favouring the emergence of spas,
• well-trained, qualified medical staff,
• competitive prices and low costs of business operations,
• opportunity of expanding healing offer with alternative tourism programs.

Location: Radzanów, Busko Zdrój commune
Area:
10 ha
Media:
electricity,
water.
Purpose:
hotel with sport-recreation complex

Warmińsko-Mazurskie:

• Natural environment:
• ecologically pure with spa features,
• region belongs to the area of "Green Lungs of Poland".
• Landscape features:
• 2,000 lakes, landscape parks and wildlife sanctuaries,
• large areas covered with forests,
• historic artifacts.
• Favourable conditions for sports:
• numerous sailing routes (channels and lakes constitute a network of routes amounting to roughly 200 km),
• ease of sailing between the lakes thanks to the construction of three canal locks,
• wide network of local winter sports centres (in winter water centres become the centres of ice sailing),
• large number of studs and riding schools (the most renown are located in Kadyny and Gałów).
• Hotel and restaurant base:
• over 34,000 beds in hotel and motels.

Location: Zalewo, Ewingi lake
Area:
4 ha
Media:
electricity,
water - 300 m,
Purpose:
tourism.

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