Tag: Poland

After some lean months during the COVID-19 pandemic, Fat Thursday finally brought some cheer to Polish confectioners as their sweet-toothed customers feasted on doughnuts. On the last Thursday before Lent, the period when Christians traditionally fast before Easter, Poles stuff their faces with doughnuts in a festival of calorific indulgence. “The pandemic has obviously had an effect on our sales, a negative effect of course,” Pawel Sypniewski, owner of the Sucre Patisserie in Warsaw, told Reuters. “Fat Thursday is crucial for my business because the months of January and February are quite dead in our industry.” Poles will consume almost ... Read more

Staged by the Polish Tourism Organisation’s International Office in Beijing, a three-month promotional campaign on the Tuniu platform, one of China’s leading online travel agencies and tourism portals, has just wrapped up. The objective was to introduce the Chinese audience to Poland’s tourism highlights related to Fryderyk Chopin and to showcase itinerary proposals for touring our country. The campaign in question was inspired by the 210th anniversary of the renowned composer’s birthday and the 10th anniversary of the Chopin Museum opening in Warsaw. The project involved, i.a. creating a dedicated landing page in Tuniu’s booking application, adding new Chopin-themed trips ... Read more

Poland’s state-owned airline, LOT is all set to launch a service from Warsaw to New Delhi in September. The carrier plans plans to fly five times a week beginning September 17, 2019. The flight is expected to take 7 hours to reach Warsaw from New Delhi. The new service will enhance tourist footfalls and, will also help the business travellers. India is the second-largest market for direct investment by Polish businesses in Asia, after Singapore. LOT carried 8.8 million passengers last year, 2 million more than in 2017. This year, the airline is eyeing a new record of 10 million passengers, ... Read more

The Crooked Forest is one of the weirdest and interesting places in Poland that not many people actually know about. If you want to experience something completely different you should definitely consider a trip to the Crooked Forest. It is a great place for taking pictures and if you are into creepy places don’t hold back and visit it at night. The Crooked Forest consists of 400 pines planted there around 1930 when the area was a German territory. It is full of oddly-shaped trees that look like something really bad happened to them. It is generally believed that the ... Read more

Kerala is slowly recovering from the devastating floods that caused widespread destruction to the state. Some of the areas are still under water. The state government has formulated plans to rebuild Kerala, but the things are beyond the capacity of a state government. Pinarayi Vijayan, the Chief Minister of Kerala, has been appealing to the world to contribute generously to the Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund to take Kerala back to its golden days. Donations and relief aids have been flowing from around the globe to help Kerala to arise from the disaster of the century. Here is one such ... Read more

Poland and Karnataka are joining hands for promotion of tourism in Poland.  Adam Burakowski, Ambassador of Polund has urged the Karnataka Cehief Minister HD Kumara Swami to ask the film industry to shoot their films in Poland. Burakowski, a big fan of Hindi films and the Kannada super star (late) Rajkumar, said that his country was ready to offer an upfront 30 per cent subsidy of the cost of a movie if Kannada filmmakers shoot their films entirely in Poland. He was talking to the Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy in Bengaluru, on Tuesday, 15th August 2018 The Poland Ambassador ... Read more

Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Suresh Prabhu inaugurated the 33rd edition of ‘AAHAR 2018’, a 4-day event on International Food and Hospitality at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. The event is organised by India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO), in association with Agricultural Processed Food Products Development Authority (APEDA), and Ministry of Food Processing Industries. The fair features over 900 exhibitors from India and overseas, with a wide variety of food products. Participants from 18 countries have registered for this year’s event. China, Italy, Poland, Turkey, Spain, Oman, South Korea, Thailand, UAE, Peru, Norway, Indonesia, Canada, Tunisia, Hong Kong, Singapore, ... Read more