Poland attracts Scandinavian tourists and medical students
Posted December 4th, 2009 in Business news by Ela Pawełek-LuberaFor the average Swede, Warsaw is the least expensive European capital and one of the cheapest cities in the world.
The ranking by the British firm Pricerunner, which compares the prices of goods and services and just published in Stockholm, compares the prices of 26 products (from food to electronics) in 33 cities of the world.
Warsaw takes the seventh place, with the prices here 11 percent below the world average.
The cheapest city of the Swedish traveller is Bombay. More expensive than Warsaw are such cities as Prague and Vilnius, with which the Polish capital is competing on the tourism market.
“I am not surprised by Warsaw’s good position”, says Juliusz Sochan from the Polish Tourism Information Centre in Stockholm. “We can see that thanks to cheap air flights, Swedes thinks it pays off to have dinner or two in Poland and even pay for a hotel room than to party in Stockholm”, Sochan told the Polish news agency PAP.
Poland is also eyed with growing interest by Norwegian medical students. Danish medical universities, which enrolled almost 1,300 students from Norway this year, are the most popular.
Poland attracted almost 800 students and has moved up to the second place. Collegium Medicum of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow enjoys the biggest renown, with 260 Norwegians studying medicine there. This is the third most popular school in the world among young people from Norway.
Source: www.thenews.pl
