Poland Convention Bureau was created in 2002 as a department of the Polish Tourism Organisation and is responsible for the promotion of Poland as an attractive destination for meetings and business events.
We are the first contact for anyone seeking information on business partners and conference facilities who is planning to organise an association congress or a corporate event in Poland.
Our main goal is to build the image of Poland as an attractive country for organising of all types of business events. We realise our mission through:
participating in international business fairs, which results in gaining new business contacts;
organising study tours for foreign journalists and organisers of meetings and business events, including conferences, congresses, product launches, incentives;
gaining new business events for Poland;
cooperating with foreign media and posting articles and advertisements promoting Poland as a business destination in business press and directories;
cooperating with city convention bureaux;
networking with the Polish business sector within the Recommendation Program for Professional Congress Organisers, Recommendation Program for Incentive Travel Companies;
networking with the Polish scientific community within the Polish Congress Ambassadors Program;
cooperating with international organisations and associations of meeting industry professionals;
collection and elaboration of statistical data on the Polish meeting industry, by the recommendations of international organisations such as ICCA - International Congress and Convention Association and the UIA - Union of International Associations, engaged in similar rankings.
The Polish Tourism Organisation is a member of the meetings industry associations: the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) and the Union of International Associations. (UIA)
Last year, 1824 meetings and events took place in Lublin. The most important event for the region was the European Innovation Week, which brought together more than 1,300 participants.
In 2017 Poznań Convention Bureau submitted to Polish Tourism Organisation information about 2,389 staged meetings and events. The greatest success of the Poznań industry was organization two important events: the Central European Exhibition of Dental Products CEDE and the First Congress of the Union of Polish Dentistry.
In 2017 Warsaw Convention Bureau submitted to Polish Tourism Organisation information about 9,024 meetings and events attended by at least 50 delegates.
As in previous years Polish Tourism Organisation Poland Convention Bureau compiled a report dedicated to the Polish meetings industry. Data presented in this year’s edition cover more than 22,000 meetings and events.
The fourth edition of the Business Without Limits congress was staged at G2A Arena Exhibition & Congress Centre in the Podkarpackie voivodeship on 20-21 June 2018.
The 10th International Congress of the Polish Society for Vascular Surgery, one of this year’s most important medical events in Poland, will be held in Warsaw on 14-16 June.
On 13-14 June 2018 Kraków will host the Impact’18 congress - a seminal event dedicated to the future of digital economy in business, science and administration.
As is the case each year, Polish Tourism Organisation is the organiser of the Polish national stand (G450) which will showcase the offer of both national (Poland Convention Bureau PTO) and regional convention bureaux, companies involved in professional meeting planning, as well as conference venues.
Convention bureaux representing Polish cities participated in a project inspiring the report on Contemporary Roles of Convention Bureaux and the Competitiveness of Polish Cities in the International Meetings Market.
A session of the Polish Congress Ambassadors Programme Chapter, entrusted with the task of selecting this year’s laureates of the Programme, was held in the central office of Polish Tourism Organisation on 8 May.
The global ICCA Statistics Report 2017, published by the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) on 7 May, ranked Poland 18th (out of 110 countries) with 216 meetings.
PolandPops Meetings & Incentives received the Professional Congress Organiser and Professional Incentive Travel Organiser certificates for 2018-2019, thus joining the group of organisers recommended by Poland Convention Bureau PTO.
Each year Poland Convention Bureau Polish Tourism Organisation, in cooperation with regional convention bureaux and recommended organisers of congresses and incentive travel, gathers data on the organisation of meetings and events in Poland.
The already sixth edition of Meetings Week Poland – five days of educational and promotional events of the Polish meetings sector – will take place on 19-23 March 2018.
