CNN Travel wrote on its website: “We could list new openings in Poland -- such as Hotel Verte, the new Autograph Collection property in Warsaw, which threw open its gilded doors (it's in a humongous Baroque palace) in August. But the reason you should visit Poland in 2023 isn't for the chance to stay in a place fit for royalty. It's to show solidarity with a country which has, in turn, shown solidarity to the people of Ukraine.
It added: "Sharing a 300-plus-mile border with a country under attack has meant that Poland has taken in more Ukrainian refugees than anywhere else … So whether you fancy that Warsaw palace, a city break to the likes of Kraków, Gdańsk, Wrocław or Poznań -- all hundreds of miles from the Ukrainian border -- or to get away from it all in the forests, lakes and mountains of the countryside -- now's your chance to do some good by taking a vacation.”
The historic Wawel Castle in Kraków, southern Poland. Pixabay License/Image by Peter Tóth from Pixabay
CNN Travel cited the UN World Tourism Organization as claiming that international tourism was expected to reach 65 percent of the pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2022, with some areas recently reaching levels closer to 80 percent or 90 percent of their 2019 arrivals.
It added that experts were cautiously optimistic about a continued travel rebound.
The list of recommended destinations for 2023 also includes Liverpool, the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, Canada's Ottawa, Egypt's Cairo, Bogota in Colombia, Thessaloniki in Greece, and Charleston in the US state of South Carolina.
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Source: polskieradio24.pl, edition.cnn.com