Marshal of the Lower Silesia region and ECR Member Cezary Przybylski outlined the steps his region took, where tourism is one of the main pillars of development, to save this very industry. They firstly launched a system of financial support, which has enabled many entrepreneurs to survive and jobs to be saved, and they are also carrying out non-financial activities, such as campaigns encouraging the use of the region's tourist assets and special websites promoting local deals.

In the CoR plenary debate on the economic recovery of the tourism, hotel and catering sector, the Marshal of the Polish region said that with regards to restarting the economy, "it is important that we work together because local and regional authorities, business environment institutions and entrepreneurs are well aware of the losses that have been incurred".

For the ECR member, the "safe restart of the economy" must take into account "compliance with the applicable health protection regulations and measures". Marshal Przybylski urged for new solutions to be found to this new situation we all find ourselves in and called for the knowledge we have on how regions managed the crisis to be used.

Looking forward he concluded by saying "let's develop mechanisms that will allow us to keep ourselves safe in the future so that any new epidemic wave or other threats do not paralyse our economies again - we cannot allow that to happen".