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GRODNO, 17 May (BelTA) – Representatives of over 100 Polish travel agencies will take part in the second Belarusian-Polish tourism forum at the Augustow Canal, BelTA learned from Mikhail Kazhuro, Deputy Head of the Sport and Tourism Office of the Grodno Oblast Executive Committee.

The Belarusian-Polish tourism forum will take place on both sides of the Augustow Canal on 20-21 May. The participants are expected to discuss ways to jointly develop the tourism industry in the Polish city Augustow on the first day of the forum.

According to the source, representatives of the ministries of sport and tourism, municipal government agencies from the bordering regions, and travel agencies from Belarus and Poland will take part in the forum. The Polish side, in particular, the companies that export tourism services, demonstrates solid interest in working together, said Mikhail Kazhuro.

On the second day the forum participants will be able to appreciate the tourism potential of the Augustow Canal first hand. The forum participants will reach the Belarusian part of the canal via the Lesnaya-Rudawka border checkpoint. Some of them will cross the border in canoes, some on bicycles. The border checkpoint itself is expected to change this year to also allow tourists, who travel on foot or on bicycles, to cross the border there.

Participants of the forum will visit the traditional open regional folk art festival Augustow Canal Gathers Friends and will take part in the opening ceremony of the Augustow Canal Museum near the Dombrowka sluice.