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.

Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency
ul. Bagatela 12; 00-585 Warsaw

Taxpayer's Identification Number (NIP): 526-030-01-67

Tel: (+48 22) 334 98 00; Fax: (+48 22) 334 99 99;
E-mail: post@paiz.gov.pl, webmaster@paiz.gov.pl
E-mail for investors: invest@paiz.gov.pl