The Polish TOs active in the religious tourism market. In the previous post I presented the latest data of GUS (Polish Central Statistical Office) on religious tourism. This post and the following one will be focused on tour operators and group organizers manging the pilgrimages. The first question in this regard is obvious: we saw …
The Demand One of the most resistant stereotypes related to Polish tourism concerns the flows of religious tourists generated by this Country. It is still not infrequent to meet tourist professionals who suppose that the outgoing Polish tourism coincides (or almost coincides) with the pilgrims going to the most famous holy places. Well! It is …
From time to time it is worth looking up from the Polish tourist market and watching what happens in Europe. The opportunity in this case is offered by the opening conference of ITB 2018 held by Mr Rolf Freitag, CEO of IPK International and promoter of World Travel Monitor®. The topic of the conference was …
Travelplanet, a leading Polish Tour Operator, from time to time publishes articles about the holidays of Poles. The last one is very interesting, it describes the market of organized tourism in this winter season from the point of view of a tour operator playing on many market segments. I repost only a part of the …
Some week ago I received a short mail from the marketing manager of a little hotel chain. “Dear Gilberto, I noticed the Polish tourists accommodated in our hotels have a seasonality different from the usual one. They prefer the last months of spring and summer. This is a characteristic of our target group or …
Waiting for the end of next August for checking if the brilliant performance of the Polish organized tourism will be confirmed, it’s worth to pay attention to the last updates of Eurostat about the participation in tourism of population above the 15 years old. The new data published in the site of the European Statistical …
There are only a few days to the New Year: it’s the time of the forecasts. Everyone looks to 2017 wondering what the next 12 months we will provide. Tourism is not an exception in this sense. Below the updated outcomes of 2016 and the forecast for 2017 from one of the most famous research …
The Polish Central Statistical Office (GUS) has recently published (Data source here) the official data about the travels abroad of the Poles.[i] The information is very interesting because describes in a detailed way this part of the tourist demand generated by Poland and finally we have the official data about the most visited Countries by Polish …
ITB World Travel Trends 2015/2016 has been just published and reports the conclusions of 23rd World Travel Forum of PISA (ITALY) held in October 2015 where about 50 international experts of tourism join for discussing the main issues of tourism with the cooperation of European Travel Commission. I suppose the main outcomes of the conference can …