Over PLN 70b loss if tourism restarts from August: report

If tourism would resume from August, the industry would lose 51 percent of annual traffic which would translate into a decrease in the value of Polish GDP by PLN 72.2 billion, according to the report of the think tank Polish Economic Institute (PIE) “Tourism industry in Poland. Image from before the pandemic”.

Tourism is one of the industries most exposed to the effects of coronavirus. Along with the development of the pandemic, the tourist services sector was hit by uncertainty affecting the…