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The 2007 ATS Fall Conference and Annual
Meeting In Lower Silesia - Poland - October 21 - 25
The Location Has Changed...But The Dates Remain The Same! Join travel agents, tour operators and tourism industry leaders in one of Central and Eastern Europe’s unknown areas, Southwest Poland . Experience beautiful Silesia …and the historic cities of Wroclaw and Poznan.
October 19-21 Pre Conference Tour
A hosted tour of the castles, spas, resorts and historic sites of Lower Silesia
October 21 - 23 ATS Conference and Meeting in Wroclaw Two days of panels, presentations and special events
October 24-25 Buy Poland and Tour Salon Travel Show in Poznan
Two days at one of the largest buyer supplier travel show in Central and Eastern Europe . This is a special opportunity to learn more about and participate in one of the fastest growing tourism regions of Europe
Special Air, Program Details and Registration information will be sent to you shortly!
So Please...Save These Dates and Plan To Join Us This October
Scouting Report 2007 - The Best Places
You've Never Hear Of - Wroclaw, Poland
From Page 80 of Athur Frommer's Budtet Traveler We asked 10
people who explore for a living to reveal the places they've
recently "discovered"--in other words, the best places you've never
heard of (and, frankly, neither had we). Go now, before the rest of
the world catches up. Kate Appleton, David LaHuta, Laura MacNeil, Sean O'Neill, Erik
Torkells, and Brad Tuttle
September 2007 issue
Tuesday, August 21, 2007;
WROCLAW, POLAND Walter Lowry: Founder of and buyer for TableArt, an L.A. store
specializing in imported tabletop products (tartontheweb.com)
Walter Lowry always loved window-shopping while on vacation, so
about five years ago he gave up his legal career and cofounded
TableArt, a Los Angeles store selling imported cutlery, linens, and
objets d'art. Now Lowry hops around Asia and Europe for up to 10
weeks a year as its buyer. "I visit craftsmen in their studios to
order goods from them directly," he says. "And I get to see
neighborhoods that aren't in guidebooks."
In February, Lowry visited southwestern Poland to meet with
porcelain producers, and he became wild about the city of Wroclaw
(pronounced vrot-swav), five hours by car from Warsaw. "It has the
prettiest plaza in Poland and perhaps in all of central Europe,"
Lowry says. But the city's real draws--at least to Lowry--are the
linens, clothing, and jewelry sold in the markets around Rynek
Square and at nearby factory stores. "I saw jackets, with tailoring
and styling that were comparable to those sold in the U.S. at
Bergdorf or Barneys, going for only $100," says Lowry. And because
tourism isn't a major industry in Wroclaw, "you get a sense of how
Poland's creative types actually go about living their lives."
How to get there: Sofitel Wroclaw, 67 Ul.sw.Mikolaja,
011-48/71-358-8300,
sofitel-wroclaw.com, from $92; car rentals from
$40 a day,
autoeurope.com. |
