Poland » Tourism

Poland’s main airport, annually serves 3.5 million passengers on 60 regular routes worldwide. It operates more than 60,000 flights a year. Poland is widely recognized as an important destination in the global tourist market. It ranks among the top ten countries in the world with regard to the number of visitors about thirteenth with regard to the revenue generated from tourism (in comparison to sixty-fourth in 1991).

The expansion of Polish tourism has outpaced growth in customary tourist giants such as Greece and Switzerland. Each year, Poland was visited by almost 90 million foreigners, five times more than in 1990. The tourist division has been rising and this trend is predictable to continue in the future. Tourism has encouraged the expansion of infrastructure and accommodations in Poland. In 1997, the number of accommodation facilities increased by 850 and reached a total of 12,000. The number of rooms in hotels rose by 10 percent to 45,000. The number of rooms in boarding houses rose by 15 percent to 8,050.

According to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund reports, the Polish tourism industry has great potential to contribute to the restructuring of the national economy and Poland's competitiveness in the European market.