On the Baltic coast, the city of Gdansk – founded in 997 AD – is preparing to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Solidarity’s battle for basic rights for the workers, which a lot of us will remember from TV reports of striking dock workers at the time. The momentous happenings signalled the end of communism [...]
Don’t just survive, thrive. That was the message from the AITO Specialist Travel Agents Conference in Gdansk this weekend (http://www.aitogdansk2009.org/), where some of the leading independent travel agents in the UK gave tips on how companies can beat the recession. It’s tough out there, but it’s not the end of the world as we know [...]
En route to a conference in Gdansk, Poland (AITO Specialist Travel Agents’ conference, www.aitoagents.com), we had a few hours in Warsaw yesterday and it was a revelation – 29 degrees for starters! It was a national holiday – Corpus Christi – so everyone was in party mood, and the old town was buzzing. People strolled [...]