New head of independent Poland Convention Bureau appointed

The Poland Convention Bureau has become an independent office within the structures of the Polish Tourism Organisation (PTO). Aneta Książek (pictured) has been appointed manager of the bureau, under the direct supervision of PTO vice-president Marcin Różycki. “In 2022, the Poland Convention Bureau celebrated its 20th anniversary. Over these two decades, we have witnessed a great transformation and professionalisation of the Polish meetings industry. Today, it is time for more changes. This means continuing to work with the industry and on well-known projects, but also looking for the best ways to influence Poland’s competitiveness in the VUCA era. The Poland Convention Bureau will be up to its new tasks and will further contribute to the development of Poland as a leader in Central Europe for meetings and events,” said Różycki. Between 2008 and 2018 Aneta Książek held the position of chief conference specialist at the PTO. She has said that she makes her professional decisions inspired by the words attributed to Confucius – “Choose a job you love, and you will not have to work a single day more in your life.” In 2015, she gained 10 months’ experience working at the PTO’s Foreign Centre in Brussels, where she was in charge of promoting both leisure tourism and the meetings industry. She became a Certified Incentive Specialist (CIS) in 2013, received her Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate (HMCC) in 2015, and completed the Event Management (Stage I) training in August 2016. From 2019 to October 2021, she was head of the Poland Convention Bureau at the PTO. Since 7 June 2021, she has been an honorary member of the SITE Poland Association. Książek was a member of the local organising committee of the 61st ICCA Congress, hosted in Krakow in November 2022.