The needs regarding hotel investments in the countries of the region are numerous. Poland suffers from a significant lack in the segment of cheap hotels (two stars or less). The Accor group is well developped with in particular a dozen of Ibis hotels and much more hotels of the Polish chain Orbis.

As regards lodging, the offer is very varied. Standard or more original infrastructures can accomodate more than one half-million of tourists. In the large cities, one can find worldwide chains hotels. In parallel, one can find small modern hotels arranged in old houses with vaults and walls 600 years old. In certain Gothic cellars, swimming pools, saunas and fitness clubs were arranged. One can find this kind of hotels - whose traditions date sometimes back from the XIIIrd century - in Cracow, Poznan, Torun, Gdansk and in some small Polish cities. In the tourist areas, the customers will find comfortable pensions and great tourist complexes with tennis courts, golf courses, health centers, as well as sport centers. One can stay in a Renaissance castle or in a hunting palace. In these luxurious places, the interiors (furniture, chimneys, soils, candelabra...) are very ancient. The residences are often surrounded by parks, designed in the former English or French style. The tourists which are less well-off are offered campings near a lake, next to a dune or on a forest edge, far from the noises of civilization. In the south of the country, the tourist can stay in wooden bungalows. Those which will not be tempted by the modern hotels will have the possibility of settling in the campings located in edges of the cities. The agro-tourist centers develop in a very dynamic way in Poland. Thousands of agro-tourist centers are already registered in Poland. Much of them are recorded with ECEAT-Poland. The holidays in the countryside mean before all "rest" and "nature": a beautiful landscape, total silence, clean air and healthy food. The Polish countryside is characterized by its roads among the fields and the multicoloured mosaic from its meadows and its pastures. It constitutes an ideal refuge for the tourist in search of calm and rest.

The guest families like to take their guests to search for mushrooms, to fishing; to learn them how to cut the wood, to drive a barouche and the secrecies of their jam. The quality of food also constitutes a large asset for this type of tourism; fresh and natural products: milk, eggs, cheese, pork-butchery, vegetables from the kitchen garden, fruits from orchard and honey which comes directly from the hive.

In some lodgings, one can try the apitherapy (a treatment which consists in looking after certain diseases using substances secreted by the bees). These centers are well maintained, clean and ensure good lodging conditions. Seaside resorts and horsemanship schools are often located in the vicinity.

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