Poles went on 6.6% more journeys in 2017

The number of tourist journeys carried out by households reached 38.7 million in 2017, marking an increase of 6.6 percent compared to 2016, statistics office GUS stated. This means that a statistical household organized 2.9 tourist trips. The majority of the excursions (93 percent) were private. Overall number of journeys came in at 68.7 million, 6.8 percent more than in 2016. Most of them (55.2 million) were domestic journeys, including 32.4 million of short trips (2-4 days). The number of foreign excursions last year came in at 13.4 million, 10.8 million of which lasted five days or more.