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Meanwhile the number of tourists to Poland increased after it joined the EU and today contributes significantly to the country’s overall economy whilst also making up a large proportion of the service market.


Tere are around 26 million tourists each year in total, of which six million are foreign tourists, who stay in some 10,000 tourist establishments with 710,000 beds from hotels to hostels.


It is the 16th most visited country in the world by foreign tourists ranked by the World Tourism Organisation and it offers a range of activities from skiing, sailing, mountain hiking, historical monuments and beach holidays. Te majority of visitors to Poland come from Germany, UK and Ukraine and in total they spent 15 million nights in the country in 2016.


Tourism contribution to GDP was PSN75.3bn in total (4.4 per cent of GDP) whilst the sector supports some 273,000 jobs directly.


GAMING LAW CHANGES Poland’s gambling market is governed by the


Ministry of Finance and dates back to the middle of the 18th century when the first classic lottery was established in 1748.


Te income from this lottery went to the building of the Collegium Nobilium (College Hospital) and also the Infant Jesus Hospital in Warsaw.


Te real beginning of numerical games began in 1768 with the aim of supporting the State Treasury. An agreement between the Treasury Committee and Genoa Company was made the following year and the first Polish agency of its kind was founded called Lotto di Genowa.


Tis enabled rich citizens to gamble and this went on until 1839 when the lottery dissolved. After independence in 1920 a permanent lottery was established and in 1936 and the lottery operation was taken over by a state company under the name of Polski Monopol Loteryjny (PML).


domestic market, low private debt, flexible currency and is not dependent on a single export sector. It was the only country to have avoided the global recession.


Te country saw a shock therapy programme initiated in the early 1990s to enable the country to transform its socialist style planned economy into a market economy. It became the first post communist country to reach its pre-1989 GDP levels which it achieved by 1995 thanks to a booming economy.


Te country is headed by President Andrzej Duda who took office in 2015. Back in 2010 the then President Lech Kaczynski plus 89 other high ranking Polish officials died in a plane crash in Russia. Kaczynski had served as PM since 2005 and was the twin brother of former PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski. He was succeeded by three acting Presidents before Bronislaw Komorowski took office in August 2010 until 2015 before Duda took the helm.


Economic growth this year is expected to


increase to 3.1 per cent during 2017/18 up from the 2.5 per cent in 2016. Te renewed growth, after a slump since 2013, is mainly attributed to reduced EU development funds and controversial domestic politics which saw a reduction in investment. GDP per capita was at €11,250 in 2015 whilst unemployment rate is 9.8 per cent.


Today Poland’s most successful exports include machinery, furniture, food products, clothing, shoes and cosmetics whilst Germany is the largest trading partner.


Many small and medium state owned companies have been privatised and a liberal law on new firms setting up has allowed the private sector to develop considerably. Poland even overtook the Netherlands in 2010 to become Europe’s sixth largest economy.


Poland became a full member of the European Union in 2004 and since this time there has been a mass emigration with over 2.3 million Poles now living abroad.


Te lottery was suspended during the war but after the second World War PML gained a competitor called Totalizator Sportowy and this company was later established as a state institution in 1955 and started functioning the following year. Te same year saw the beginning of bookmaker bets in Poland.


For many years the Polish market operated in a largely unregulated situation especially during the 80s and 90s until a law was pushed through in 1992 which mostly tightened up the casino laws.


Tis law was later amended in 2003 and although there was no specific law for online gaming, in 2009 online gambling was banned after a scandal in the government and stringent anti online laws were passed brought in.


Te Gambling Act 2009 (amended in 2011) was introduced by then Prime Minister Donald Tusk who banned gambling outside of casinos and online gaming. Te law at the time essentially dealt with the land based sector and placed limits on casinos and their locations and game


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