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Vacation in Poland: A city trip to Gdansk

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October 7, 2022

Tourism in Poland has slumped by 60 percent. Many tourists are turning their backs on destinations in Central and Eastern Europe because of the war on Ukraine. Not DW's Lukas Stege. He travels to Gdansk.

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