Press tour for international journalists to Lublin

22-24 September

Bluevine Consulting in cooperation with the city of Lublin, eastern Poland, organized a press tour for international journalists to the Lublin Metropolitan Area as part of the region’s promotional activities. On 22-24 September ten journalists, representing mostly national and economic titles, from Austria, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Sweden and the UK visited the region and had their travel and accommodation costs paid for by the organisors.

With Poland being the only EU country that didn’t go into recession last year, the programme of the press tour looked at the economic situation of the country as a whole. However, most presentations focused on eastern Poland, particularly the Lublin Metropolitan Area, where the journalists were invited.

The journalists’ visit started officially on Wednesday, 22 September with a welcome dinner in Hotel Europa with Marek Flasiński, the Marshal Office board member and MEP candidate.

The main day of the tour included presentations about the real estate market, investment potential and initiatives supported by the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PAIiIZ). The journalists were also shown the Lublin Subzone of the Mielec Special Economic Zone and visited the Regional Industrial Park in Świdnik. In the evening the participants of the press tour were invited to the offices of Arkady – a developer working on a major regeneration project “Alchemia” and had dinner in the Old Town.

The press tour concluded with a visit the agricultural wholesale market of Elizówka on Friday morning, where the journalists learned about the region’s agricultural potential and the organic food industry in Poland.