Tourism in Poland

I've read this article not long ago and I must say that this surprised me - tourists from Arab countries (Dubai, Kuwait, etc.) apparently replaced RuSSian tourists in Zakopane:

turystyka.wp.pl/na-krupowkach-hidzab-przy-hidzabie-sa-w-stanie-zaplacic-kazda-cene-6923337650793440a

I thought that the border crisis with Belarus and PiS' anti-immigration and anti-relocation stance would give Poland a bad reputation in Arab/Muslim countries as a "racist country" or sth and that they would be avoiding visiting our country.

It turns out that not only they don't avoid visiting Poland, but they're loving it here and they feel... safe o_O

Two young female tourists from Kuwait said:

"We're doing a round trip. Before coming to Zakopane we were in Prague in the Czech Republic, but we like Poland the most - they admitted. I got curious, so I asked where did they get the idea of coming to Poland. - We heard that Poles are very hospitable and tolerant. Noone is pointing fingers at us, we can feel safe. Besides, it's simply beautiful here - they've concluded.

Another Arab woman that I talked to comes from Dubai. She came to Poland with her whole family and apart from Zakopane she plans to also visit Kraków. - It's safe for us here - she said, when I asked why she came to Poland."

Amazing o_O

Katarzyna Kuziemska from Polish Tourist Organisation also added in this article that in the past there was no infrastracture that would fit the needs of those tourists, luxurious apartments, etc. but that changed in recent years.

• 
  
  
• 
  
  
• 
  
  

How racist is that.. :D

@Ironside, what is racist? lol

Not at all. Tourism crosses borders and Zakopane is as exotic to those tourists as Oman would be to you.

geez, It was a joke...see """""""D''''' this?

Yes, a D is what I'd give it too.

@Paulina
The second lady from the right in the middle photo reminds me very much of Polish nuns.

I see them all over in Warsaw now.One I talked to wanted to settle in Poland.
Very bad news for Poland in future for sure.

Not necessarily so, Islam are the most effective recruitment tool for the RCC the world has ever known. Had you have told me 5 years ago that come 2023 I would be praying the rosary daily out of sheer necessity, I would have asked you, 'what is a rosary?'.

Interesting that people are fixating on their religious faith.

Not that Poles ever go to Egypt on holiday, do they now,

And how many have settled In Egypt or plan to?

Thousands around Sharm and Hurghada.

How many of the ladies paying to visit Zakopane intend to move there?

I know from well-informed sources that recently many Arabs and Jews invested in real estate in Poland. I suspect they don't want to move, just rent and then sell at a profit.

Lots of people invest in real estate in different countries. Right now there's a boom in Polish citizens investing in property around Malaga.


Maybe some are also Poles, not that there should be any restrictions about who can buy what except in specific situations like Guernsey.

It turns out that other media wrote about this phenomenon in Zakopane too:

tvn24.pl/krakow/zakopane-popularne-wsrod-turystow-z-krajow-arabskich-7275177

Apparently there are also other reasons for tourists from Arab countries to visit Zakopane, besides nature, weather and safety (a quote from the article):

"- Guests from Arab countries fell in love with the culture of Zakopane. They're saying that it's alive and genuine, which can't be said anymore about many resorts in Western Europe. They like our music, folk costumes and hospitality - described Wagner."


Really? Interesting...


Did you ask from what country?

Sometimes foreign tourists, guided by various misconceptions, expose themselves to great dangers.
Especially in the mountains:

In sneakers on his feet and with a phone in his hand, he was hiking along the most difficult trail in the Tatras, i.e. Orla Perć. A tourist from China wanted to reach Morskie Oko. GPS, however, led him in a completely different direction. "It was a shock for us," says one of the witnesses of the event.

Crossing Orla Perć , they suddenly heard a call. Last Thursday (August 24) Polish tourists met a tourist from China in the area of ​​Zmarzła Przełęcz, who was climbing with a large backpack on his back, sneakers on his feet and a phone in his hand, he was almost "glued to the rock" outside the trail. After a short conversation, it turned out that the young man did not know which way he should go.

However, communication was not easy, as the tourist did not understand anything in Polish and little in English.
When we asked him where he was going, he showed on his phone that it was to Morskie Oko and that Google Maps had led him that way . It was a shock and disbelief for us ... A Chinese man with a large backpack, wearing sneakers, was climbing the wall off the trail to Orla Perć, wanting to reach Morskie Oko.

Polish tourists decided to help the lost man. However, the chains and ladders on the route were a big challenge for him. " He stood like a brick and did not want to go on. He had to be persuaded for quite a long time, at first to the chains, and then to the ladder, " the witness quotes Tatromaniak.pl.

Orla Perć aka Eagle Path stretches between two passes: Zawrat and Krzyżne. This trail is considered the most difficult and dangerous in the Polish mountains.

• 
  
  

Leave ya scyzoryki town and come to some civilized towns in Poland


Lebanon.

Very nice people, I owe a lot especially to one professor from Lebanon.

A good number of Lebanese are Catholics, those Lebanese would meld well into Polish culture.

If the Lebanese women I've met are representative of the general female population of Lebanon, the young men of Poland will not protest them settling in Poland.

There are many Christians of that denomination and others there, as well as of other religions.

Not many are taking holidays abroad right now, given the crisis, however we can certainly expect more people from the Middle East in Poland for tourism, study and to live.