The gala of your tourism is behind us. Top 100 managers were awarded, 88.5 thousand were collected. for children and mothers from Ukraine

The top ten on the list “ 100 most influential people in the tourism industry ” According to the magazine, your tourism

Behind us is the first gala of your tourism during which we finished the carnival and symbolically started a year in a tourist group. The event took place at the Renaissance Warsaw Airport Hotel Hotel.

Despite the events that have been happening for a few days right at our border, we met with the broadly understood tourism industry to be able to breathe a moment from war and Covid reality. For almost two years, there has been a lack of opportunities for meetings outside of conference tables and webinars.

“The Gala of Your Tourism is an event that clearly showed how much” live “meetings are needed, and not through IT tools, Internet connections, meetings with the use of cameras” – says Paweł Kunz, journalist and expert the tourism industry.

During the Gala of Your Tourism, diplomas and awards were presented to all those who were on the “List of the 100 most influential people in Polish tourism”.

Piotr Henicz, vice president of Itaka and No. 1. on the List, said M.in. “It doesn’t matter if someone is number 1 or number 100 on the List. It does not matter if we are from a large company or a small one. We are all tourism. And for this solidarity with being a tourism, I would like to thank the entire industry.& # 8221;

Then, after a short break, the Women’s Year in Polish Tourism was inaugurated and thus a charity auction was opened, the proceeds of which will be donated to the Foundation of the Institute of Mother and Child. The goal of the foundation is to protect the health of patients and to promote health prophylaxis for children, adolescents and pregnant women. The role of the Foundation is primarily to help the sick and their families. The Foundation is associated with the Institute of Mother and Child, supporting it directly. In response to the war in Ukraine, the Foundation decided to allocate these funds to medical aid for children and mothers fleeing this country to Poland.

The items to be auctioned include, among others, vouchers for a Boeing 737 simulator flight, the Olympic champion’s jersey, city break in Milan, a day in Split with Agnieszka Puszczewicz or a private vocal concert by Paweł Niewiadomski. There were plenty of volunteers who participated in the auctions and supported our initiative. In total, 88.5 thousand were collected for refugees. zloty.

“The possibility of meeting in one place and at the same time practically all the important people in the Polish tourism industry, renewing business contacts and numerous talks, also behind the scenes: all this cannot be overestimated, especially in this difficult, pandemic period. It is also an opportunity to show that tourism is slowly returning to the right path, disturbed by many months, which were marked by subsequent flight bans, canceled tourist events, restrictions related to the Covid-19 pandemic “- adds Paweł Kunz.