ACTIVITIES OF ORBIS, POLISH TRAVEL AGENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700080204-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 204
• Publication Date: August 29, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

anitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700080204-5
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
How
PUBLISHED
WHERE
PUBLISHED
DATE
PUBLISHED
CLASSI71 CATION emwiD i17AL
Jail tl_LIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
F'ORE!GI , DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCA.'TS
Poland
Sociological - Travei-control
?_Ono='C - Organiraticn
HeTiy newspaper
E'r3m-':furt
4 nay 3952
7e:[ DMte![ncellTll[0I D&$A7nol w[rnee [ llno[u !!rt!a!
or leil lime 17.70 ip6U Tl! [lu,l1 OF !s"euu! ?A c1
!. 1. :.. a, tie 1[. 0 M111[!. mTW a,,flc"e/7e[l!nl11TGl
er m lelY4V a 1n uena ro u luerpo[mta nasal ,; qo-
mu m10 n S1q. YnlopgcIW[ a! flip Mla ,1 Meble~lto.
SOURCE
i9 ve 471edorc cis
flE r'QRT
CG NO.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1952
DATE DIST. thf Au 1952
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Al'TI7ITIES Or' ORBIS POLISH TRAv'3I, AGEHHCY
he name. Orbis, yell-knonrn in Poland and foreign countries, stands for
foss Stperaste service enterprises under the (;eotralny 7arza.A Przedsiebiorsty
Ual%govych "Orbts'(Central Office of Orbis Service Euterprisea). These enter-
prises serve native.and foreign tourism in Poland and arrange comfortable
Joxrnags a:^3 rsc..t:c:.n at resorts for the vorkirg people.
The POH2 Orbie 1Przedsiebioratvo Obalugi Ruchu Zagranicznego "Orbis,"
Grbis Service Enterprise for Foreign Travel) performs all servi?,ee fora _
tr, 1-1-o i or t:aa:gh Foland and for Polish citizens traveling abroad.
PO7iZ Orbin arranges individual and group accommodations and meals for
foreignera at its owr hotels and restaurants in all the larger cities and at
border points of internwtional flight lines.. It arranges. transportation for
-foreigners traveling' in Poland; it organizes tours of Poland, arranges for
:.}QCentOdationa in Orbis boarding houses, Drovid?e theater tic eta, exchanges
fa }ign eurreacies, and provides a foreign-language guide.
POBZ Orbis can arrange similar services abroad.for foreigners in Poland
thrm;jh foreign travel offices working with Orbia. On the basis of recitrocal
agreements with foreign travel bureaus, POHZ Orbis arranges excursions from
Poland to foiel countries and from foreign countries to Poland,
The PFfi Orbia (Pr,_dsiebiorstvo Podrozy i Turystyki "Orbis," Orbis Travel
and Tourism Enterprise), with branches throughout the ccmtry, facilitates
travel in'the country by selling railroad and airline tickets and sleeping car
acocumobntions ae far a.lead as 7 daye before the day of travel. The tourist
division of this eyte.,,risa orgajzss
tze workers and group sight-seeing excursions to families*-
peaasats with the achievements in the building of socialism.
PPT Orbis provides transportation,, living quarters, foal, and professional
Suuidcss for these excursions. It SJ.co organizes group transportation to con-
greases, fairs, expositioes, and conferences.
50X1-HUM
CLASSIRCATION CO IDM.rAL
NAB' h'Re Di51TRITD-'JTION
tiR ~
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700080204-5
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/0
^-.p+.....e rv~..u c~ x !!~eila1rL~C.v irz9 rah "/rb? " (Orb'-
jjIft sitg var -Iaterpriae) arrtsngoa for Comfortable second- and third-
In all' mer4,, t i in sleeping ea-58 and foot in dining cars. These cars operate
important lima in the cc=try ax on international lines that
join,PolQid-prith eighbo ims aoantrien.
The ?rseurticblotstxo Oerodkov 3ey~r =ta^hkcrafch "Orbis" (Orbis Tatat?ion k:oorts
Emt rprise) provides sin,.1e- ar :cuble-.room ace ' :bona at boarding houses
in the mxiat basutifUl Spots in Polsiai. These bearding ), uses aasure nati-e Farad
fu sign g=ata of aa, interesting 4nd pleasant Vacatiisn, p.;sntiful food, and Jocal
aightaeeirg excwaions orgcaized by Orbio guides.
The Cenhra,]. Office &M fc+ur service enterprises t.nua has, -.`rr
at
?ru-0m Street, 'taraw, teln noae 6-37-80.
~
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700080204-5