Geography of Tourism in Hungary
Tourism as a new discipline emerged in Hungary in the 1960s. Since then different topics have been researched, such as tourist conditions of the Balaton and Danube regions or medical tourism in Hungary. The 1980s was the time of the first comprehensive an
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Geography of Tourism in Hungary Katalin Formadi, Peter Mayer and Erzsébet Pénzes
Abstract Tourism as a new discipline emerged in Hungary in the 1960s. Since then different topics have been researched, such as tourist conditions of the Balaton and Danube regions or medical tourism in Hungary. The 1980s was the time of the first comprehensive analysis of natural resources regarding tourism aspect. In the last decade of the twentieth century, some new topics were researched, such as city or rural tourism. The beginning of a new century meant a more interdisciplinary approach to tourism. This chapter presents the natural preconditions for tourism such as relief features, climatic, hydrologic and biographic conditions. Short description allows us to point the most attractive areas of the country in terms of recreation. The special attention is paid to the protected areas existing in Hungary, among them 10 national parks, whose potential concerning the tourist movement and the infrastructure supporting the reception of values is also discussed. The cultural part of tourist values is presented in the most important tourist sites—in this case: World Heritage Sites, culture centres and the most recognizable values represented by museums as a part of tangible heritage and cultural events as the intangible potential. The tourist infrastructure of the country is presented through both transport and sport-recreational and accommodation elements. First element along with the state of transport infrastructure describes hiking trails, cycling routes and winter sports facilities. The accommodation sector situation in the last two decades presents changes in its capacity and spatial differentiation. An important part is the analysis of the contemporary situation of tourist movement in Hungary: domestic and international tourism, seasonality and its regional distribution. In the last part, the main types of tourism such as spa and wellness or rural tourism are described.
K. Formadi P. Mayer (&) E. Pénzes Department of Tourism, Faculty of Economics, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing AG 2017 K. Widawski and J. Wyrzykowski (eds.), The Geography of Tourism of Central and Eastern European Countries, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-42205-3_6
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Geographical Research of Tourism in Hungary, Its Main Research Problems and Topics
Tourism emerged as a new discipline in the 1960s in Hungary. The Hungarian geographical researches turned to the tourism in the second part of the 1960s, after the III. Tourism Colloquium has specified the subjects and research fields of the tourism geography. Some of the researches approached tourism topics from the natural resources and attraction facilities (Pécsi 1967); the others studied the natural and social factors and their impacts in a complex way and analysed the touristic acts divided into regional levels (Kóródi and Somogyi 1968). In the 1970s, the studies went on with the touristic conditions of th
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