MAGYARORSZÁG JÁRÁSI SZINTŰ TURISZTIKAI CENTRUMTÉRSÉGEINEK LEHATÁROLÁSA ÉS HAZÁNK KIEMELT TURISZTIKAI TÉRSÉGEIVEL TÖRTÉNŐ ÖSSZEVETÉSE TÉRÖKONOMETRIAI MÓDSZEREKKEL
DELINEATION OF DISTRICT-LEVEL TOURISM HUB REGIONS IN HUNGARY AND COMPARISON WITH THE COUNTRY’S PRIORITY TOURISM REGIONS USING SPATIAL ECONOMETRIC METHODS

Summary/Abstract: As in other fields of economy, centers and peripheries can be noticed in the case of tourism as well, which can be explained partly - but to a significant extent - by the different occurrences, territorial appearances, concentrations and deconcentrations of tourist attractions. Several attempts have been made to subdivide the tourism regions of Hungary, but the lack of an unified system of criterias and methodologies has always made the implementation of the results problematic. The most recent identification and delimitation of accentuated tourism development areas along a destination logic started in 2016, taking into account both supply and demand factors and the tourism potential of the areas. As a result, the latest government decree on tourist areas was published in September 2020, deciding on the creation of 11 new tourist areas, supplementing the previous priority development areas. Within the framework of the present study, as a kind of methodological experiment as well, based on the tourism performance, we try to subdivide the tourist regions of Hungary at the district level with the help of spatial econometric methods, and compare our results with the previously mentioned 11 tourist regions. We try to examine their matches and possible differences. One of the main results of the research is to prove or disprove whether spatial econometrics can be a suitable tool in the delineation of tourist areas.

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