Łódź, Łódź – wink, wink!

The 9th Hotel and Office Investment Conference started with a discussion on the future of the Polish hospitality sector. The country’s GDP growth together with the development of the BPO/SSC and MICE sectors have given a dramatic boost to the demand for accommodation, which investors are now striving to meet. “We currently have 15,000 rooms under construction in Poland. That’s about 14 pct of all the rooms in the country,” remarked Alex Kloszewski, the managing partner of Hotel Professionals Management Group and the moderator of the first panel. The largest players are actively looking for new locations for their projects. This is far from easy since the best sites have already been taken in many cities. “Some cities are already heavily saturated with hotels. However, this does not bother us too much because we are looking for both central and peripheral locations,” explained Jacek Stasikowski, the development director of AccorHotels and Orbis. Piotr