Rzeczpospolita, a Polish newspaper reporting a dramatic spike in interest in foreign tourism. According to a Thursday report, bookings are up 32% when comparing the first two weeks of June 2021 to the same period prior to the pandemic.

While seashore and mountain destinations are the most popular among Poles, interest in visiting Albania has grown dramatically, while interest in visiting Spain has declined significantly.

“There is a real explosion in interest,” Piotr Henicz, Vice-President of Itaka, the largest Polish travel agency, said. He added, the rush began in late May. Before travel agents barely sold any vacations.

The journal also stated that prices in Poland are higher this year, as they were two years ago, and that vacationing in Poland is pricey. This year will see a similar increase in pricing in the Netherlands.

According to Polish official figures, there were 88.9 % fewer persons lodged in the country in February 2021, accounting for 697,400 tourists. During the same month in 2020, Poland had 2.4 million individuals staying in institutions, despite having 70.7 percent fewer tourists. Domestic tourists made up 93.3 % of the total number of tourists (650,500), while overseas tourists made up 6.7% (46,900).

Ukrainians, who made up 20.5 percent of all foreign travelers, were the most frequent visitors to lodging places among international tourists. However, their results were 74.7 percent lower than the previous year. In addition, 16.9% of the tourists visiting Poland in February 2021 were German.

Domestic tourist overnight stays fell by 71.9 percent in February 2021, compared to almost 450,000 in February 2020.

In February 2021, there were 1.6 million overnight stays (74.4 percent less than the previous year), including 1.4 million (71.9 percent less) local tourists and 0.2 million overseas tourists (86%).

The 13th-century salt mine in Wieliczka, the Auschwitz camps, where 900,000 Jews were imprisoned between 1942 and 1944, the Old Market Place in Warsaw, which has been nearly 85 percent rebuilt after being destroyed by World War II, and the beautiful Malbork Castle are among the most popular Polish destinations.

The activation of the EU COVID-19 vaccination passport is also intended to make travel easier for vaccinated European individuals, including Polish visitors. The text also aspires to restore safe and free mobility in order to revitalize tourism, which has had a substantial impact on the economies of EU member states.