Swiss-Polish Cooperation Programme

Partner Fund

www.swissgrant.pl
www.swiss-contribution.admin.ch/poland

Project name

Steering the meetings industry in Krakow – Appraisal and monitoring of the economic influence of the meetings industry on Krakow’s economy, using good practice from Switzerland

Project desription

The project seeks to meet the objectives of the Swiss-Polish Cooperation Programme Block Grant’s Partnership Fund through a mutual exchange of good practice and know-how, which in turn serves to promote, create, and enhance the partnership between the units of the Polish local government (Krakow’s City Council), Polish institutions (the Foundation of the University of Economics in Krakow and the Krakow Festival Office), and Swiss entities (the Institute of Tourism at the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland Valais).

The benefits from the project

The benefit of the project will be examining trends in the booking and choice of conference facilities, an estimate of volume and value of business meetings industry in Krakow. The second goal is to obtain data on the economic gains that are brought to the city by the sector. The end result of the analysis resulting from the project will be taking informed action to obtain the conference events that generate the highest economic impact.

Total project cost

791 804,00 zł – 248 159,96 CHF

Amount of the grant

712 623,00 zł – 223 343,78 CHF Rate of exchange in the competition documentation at the time of recruitment 3,1907

Duration of the project

12.04.2012 r. – 30.09.2014 r.