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Voivodships:
Lubelskie Małopolskie Podlaskie Pomorskie
¦l±skie ¦więtokrzyskie Warmińsko-Mazurskie

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

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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.

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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.

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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 Wi¶lana 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

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¦l±skie:

  • 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 ¦wierklaniec,
    • 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 ¦l±ski 700 metres ASL
Area:
  • 7.2 ha,
  • usable area of facilities - 17,302 m2
Purpose:
  • Congress-Recreational Centre.
Advantages:
  • full technical infrastructure.

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¦więtokrzyskie (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, ŁódĽ,
    • 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

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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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 Did you know ?

Polish pharmacist Ignacy Łukasiewicz obtained paraffin by distilling crude oil and constructed the first ever paraffin lamp. 3 years later he established world’s first crude oil distillery near Jasło in the south of Poland

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