The Impact of the Hotel Industry on the Competitiveness of Tourism Destinations in Hungary

This paper focuses on a complex question from the perspective of the hotel industry. It tries to draw attention to the importance of hotels, enhancing it on the basis of the tourism destination competitiveness models and introducing the role and place of the hotel industry in the most important mod...

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Main Author: Albert Tóth Attila
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tomas Bata University in Zlín 2016-12-01
Series:Journal of Competitiveness
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Online Access:http://www.cjournal.cz/files/235.pdf
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spelling doaj-90429880fe224966973834b44e1975542020-11-25T00:24:02ZengTomas Bata University in ZlínJournal of Competitiveness1804-171X1804-17282016-12-01848510410.7441/joc.2016.04.06The Impact of the Hotel Industry on the Competitiveness of Tourism Destinations in HungaryAlbert Tóth Attila0Széchenyi István University Kautz Gyula Economics FacultyThis paper focuses on a complex question from the perspective of the hotel industry. It tries to draw attention to the importance of hotels, enhancing it on the basis of the tourism destination competitiveness models and introducing the role and place of the hotel industry in the most important models. The hotel industry research evaluates the most important tourism destinations of Hungary on the micro-regional level that justifies the importance and contribution of the hotels and accommodations to competitiveness and success of tourism destinations with exact results. As a result of the research, the micro-regional destinations can be ranged within three groups in Hungary. In the first group of the most developed and most competitive tourism destinations, the hotel industry plays a very important role. In these regions, the hotel industry has a significant effect not only on competitiveness of tourism but also on general development of the regions. In the second group, which can be still called tourism destination, tourism and the hotel industry both play a significant role, but only the competitiveness of tourism can be considered good, the effects of the tourism on general development of the region can be proved only to a lesser extent. In the third group, the effects of tourism and the hotel industry can only be experienced to a lesser extent. The majority of these regions are not considered to be attractive tourism destinations for tourists any more. http://www.cjournal.cz/files/235.pdfhotel industrytourism destinationcompetitivenessHungary
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The Impact of the Hotel Industry on the Competitiveness of Tourism Destinations in Hungary
Journal of Competitiveness
hotel industry
tourism destination
competitiveness
Hungary
author_facet Albert Tóth Attila
author_sort Albert Tóth Attila
title The Impact of the Hotel Industry on the Competitiveness of Tourism Destinations in Hungary
title_short The Impact of the Hotel Industry on the Competitiveness of Tourism Destinations in Hungary
title_full The Impact of the Hotel Industry on the Competitiveness of Tourism Destinations in Hungary
title_fullStr The Impact of the Hotel Industry on the Competitiveness of Tourism Destinations in Hungary
title_full_unstemmed The Impact of the Hotel Industry on the Competitiveness of Tourism Destinations in Hungary
title_sort impact of the hotel industry on the competitiveness of tourism destinations in hungary
publisher Tomas Bata University in Zlín
series Journal of Competitiveness
issn 1804-171X
1804-1728
publishDate 2016-12-01
description This paper focuses on a complex question from the perspective of the hotel industry. It tries to draw attention to the importance of hotels, enhancing it on the basis of the tourism destination competitiveness models and introducing the role and place of the hotel industry in the most important models. The hotel industry research evaluates the most important tourism destinations of Hungary on the micro-regional level that justifies the importance and contribution of the hotels and accommodations to competitiveness and success of tourism destinations with exact results. As a result of the research, the micro-regional destinations can be ranged within three groups in Hungary. In the first group of the most developed and most competitive tourism destinations, the hotel industry plays a very important role. In these regions, the hotel industry has a significant effect not only on competitiveness of tourism but also on general development of the regions. In the second group, which can be still called tourism destination, tourism and the hotel industry both play a significant role, but only the competitiveness of tourism can be considered good, the effects of the tourism on general development of the region can be proved only to a lesser extent. In the third group, the effects of tourism and the hotel industry can only be experienced to a lesser extent. The majority of these regions are not considered to be attractive tourism destinations for tourists any more.
topic hotel industry
tourism destination
competitiveness
Hungary
url http://www.cjournal.cz/files/235.pdf
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