Training for hotel and restaurant employees

Constantly improving the qualifications of staff directly serving tourists is very important.

Proper service for tourists coming to Warsaw is a factor that determines the first impressions of their stay in the city. Additionally, reliable information, the ability to interest in events or interesting places, recommending a restaurant, tour operator or concert hall will have an impact on the assessment of the stay. This in turn translates into recommendations made to family, friends, acquaintances or business colleagues.

As an association, we care about providing the best possible service to guests visiting Warsaw. For this reason, we are launching a series of training courses for hotel and restaurant employees who have direct contact with tourists and visitors to our city.

Over a year ago, we introduced a new tool for mutual promotion of members to hotels – a map of tourist attractions. It included information about tour operators, cultural institutions, interesting attractions and restaurants. The map was designed as a form of support for recommendations made by hotel staff.

Trainings are a continuation of this activity, participation in them is an opportunity to get to know the main attractions of Warsaw, listen to interesting stories and anecdotes. During 3-hour meetings (which will not take the form of a classic guide training) guides selected by us will talk about Warsaw as they know and love it, and hotel and restaurant employees will be able to share this information with our future guests.

The initial training cycle includes 3 meetings organized at the Museum of Life in the Polish People's Republic, POLIN – Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Polish Vodka Museum. If it turns out that this formula will interest a wider group, we will consider continuing the project.

Registration link – www.wot.waw.pl/rejestracja

We invite you!

Bio guides

Jola Pater

Jola Pater

associated with tourism since she came of age. As a tour guide, during her studies (tourism and recreation), she traveled with groups around Europe and during the holiday season she was a guide in the Mediterranean basin. She sought stability on the Baltic Sea as a hotel manager in Krynica Morska, and then after 2 years in Krakow, working in the MICE industry. She found her happiness in the capital, she has been a guide in Warsaw for 14 years, she cooperates with museums: POLIN, Royal Castle, Royal Łazienki, Chopin Museum, Museum of Independence.
Rafał Patla

Rafal Patla

In 2009 he founded Adventure Warsaw - alternative tours on board the historic Nysa 522. Since then, thousands of tourists and companies have had the opportunity to discover the unknown Warsaw during both tours and city games. In 2013, Rafał founded the first Museum of Life in the Polish People's Republic in Warsaw, which is currently located at Plac Konstytucji. Rafał is a licensed guide in Warsaw and a tour leader.
Paweł Szczerkowski

Pawel Szczerkowski

A licensed guide to Warsaw since 2011. In his work, he combines the experience of a guide and a journalist – he previously worked in the foreign section of “Gazeta Wyborcza”. He specializes in the history and culture of Polish Jews and the subject of the Holocaust. He comes from Żyrardów and studied international relations at the University of Warsaw.