Gdansk Tourist Organisation/Gdańsk Convention Bureau CEO – Anna Górska has been chosen to be a member of the jury which every year elects Polish Congess Ambassadors. This jury will be in office for three years, form 2012 to 2015. It is the first time when a representative from Gdańsk & Region will be part of the jury.
Every year the jury chooses up to twenty Ambassadors, whose role is to promote Poland as a good location for business meetings. They are people who are well known among professionals and trusted, e.g. scientists, industry specialists or diplomats. Their word of praise is the best advertisement Poland can get. This specific form of word-of-mouth marketing is very effective, since people are more likely to believe information coming from our friends rather than strangers or from advertisements.
The fact that Anna Gorska was chosen to be a jury member is also an honour for Gdańsk Convention Bureau. `I am very glad about this nomination, because it means Gdańsk & Region’s growing importance on Polish business meeting market. – says Anna Górska, GOT/GCB CEO. – It is also worth reminding that in 2011 four out of fourteen Ambassadors were connected with the University of Gdańsk.`
Polish Congress Ambassadors programme is conducted by Polish Tourist Organization/Poland Convention Bureau and Congresses and Conferences in Poland association. Until now, 120 people were honoured with an Ambassador title. Prof. Michał Kleiber, president of Polish Academy of Sciences, has taken honorary patronage on the programme.
Jury of the Polish Congress Ambassador Programme for 2012-2015:
PhD Alicja Adamczak – President of Polish Patent Office
PhD Andrzej Arendarski – President of Polish Chamber of Commerce
PhD Jerzy Chmiel – President of Polish section of CIOFF – International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Arts
PhD Andrzej Chochoł – Vice rector Cracow University of Economics
Anna Gorska – Gdańsk Tourist Organization/Gdańsk Convention Bureau CEO
Magdalena Kondas – Journalist, Meeting Planner Sp. z o. o., originator for the MICE Poland Personality of a year award
Prof. Janusz Lipkowski – President of Warsaw Science Society
PhD Marek Pawełczyk – Vice president of International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration
Elżbieta Penderecka – President of Ludwiga van Beethoven Association
Magdalena Piasecka – Convention Bureau Wrocław CEO
Prof. Piotr Wilczek – Vice president of council for Cross-divisional Individual Humanist Studies (University of Warsaw)
Prof. Jerzy Woy-Wojciechowski M.D. – President of Polish Medical Association
Prof. Marian Zembala M.D. – President of Silesian Heart Diseases Centre in Zabrze
Programme organisers’ representatives:
PhD Bartłomiej Walas – Vice president of polish Tourism Organisation
Piotr Wilczek – President of Conferences and Congresses in Poland association
Irena Sokołowska – Vice president of Conferences and Congresses in Poland association
Robert Kępiński – President of the Planning Department in Polish Tourism Organisation
