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Sport
The development of services in the field of sport will take the following actions:
• improving the technical condition of and upgrading the existing sports
facilities. It mostly concerns the football stadium;
• building new sports facilities for organising big national and international
sports events. It is necessary to build a complex of swimming pools, including
a full-size one;
• supporting the existing sports clubs, especially those that have top-level
disciplines (basketball, judo);
• financial support of major sports events.
Tourism and recreation
The main asset for developing the services in the sector of tourism and recreation is
the Włocławek Reservoir. It has a huge potential for satisfying all needs of the people
of Włocławek and the region in the field of sport and recreation. Meeting this objective
will take:
• building the facilities that would help to use the Włocławek Reservoir. The local
self-government of Włocławek, together with the authorities of communes
located by the reservoir should attract investors to build the infrastructure
connected with water sports and recreation;
• making the most of the Gostynin-Włocławek Landscape Park. This objective
should be pursued together with the local authorities of the communes where
the Park is;
• intensive promotion of the tourist and recreational assets of the town and its
surroundings.
Trade and basic support services
According to the residents of the region, this is one of the most important areas of
services. The development of these services will upgrade the level of competitiveness
of the city. Meeting this objective will take creating attractive conditions for building a
large shopping centre, offering a wide choice of services. To do this, proper planning
documents must be prepared to facilitate the issuing of all necessary permissions and
localisation decisions, and to prepare the technical infrastructure necessary to start
the construction works.
Business environment services
The business environment institutions are mostly banks, credit funds, financial
institutions, insurance institutions as well as counselling and book keeping institutions.
These are also some organisations of entrepreneurs and businessmen. The local
authorities should do everything to make sure that there are a lot of such institutions
in Włocławek. The following actions should be taken, then:
• establishing a close co-operation with the existing organisations (mostly with
the Kujavian Chamber of Commerce and Industry);
• organising lobbying actions to create such institutions in Włocławek;
• creating good organisational and material conditions attracting such
institutions to the town.
Taking and executing the suggested investment and organisational tasks should result
in achieving a satisfactory level of these services and a wide-range of their influence.
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