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Polskie Towarzystwo Turystyczno-Krajoznawcze, PTTK
AbbreviationPTTK
PredecessorPolskie Towarzystwo Tatrzańskie
Successorn/a
Formation1873; 151 years ago (1873)
Dissolvedn/a
TypeNGO
Legal statusAssociation
PurposeEducational
HeadquartersWarsaw
Region served
Country-wide
Membership
61,000
Main organ
Assembly
AffiliationsAlliance Internationale de Tourisme, Naturfreunde Internationale, Federation of Nature and National Parks of Europe, Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques
Websitewww.pttk.pl
Formerly called
Polish Sightseeing Society

Polskie Towarzystwo Turystyczno-Krajoznawcze, PTTK (Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society) is a Polish non-governmental tourist organization with 312 branches across the country.[1]

The PTTK is one of the oldest tourist societies in Europe. Its origins stretch back to the foreign Partitions of Poland. In August 1873 a group of tourism enthusiasts including painter and photographer Walery Eljasz Radzikowski from Kraków and physician Tytus Chałubiński founded the Polish cultural Tatra Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Tatrzańskie, originally the "Galician" Tatra Society for the Austrian censorship). A parallel Polish Sightseeing Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Krajoznawcze) was founded by ethnographer Zygmunt Gloger in 1906. The two organizations merged after World War II in 1950 to form the PTTK.

  1. ^ Oddziały PTTK. List of PTTK branches across Poland (homepage). Retrieved September 4, 2012.

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