THEY HEAL, BUT AT WHAT COST? – SUSTAINABILITY IN HUNGARIAN SPA HOTELS Cover Image

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THEY HEAL, BUT AT WHAT COST? – SUSTAINABILITY IN HUNGARIAN SPA HOTELS

Author(s): Flórián Strack
Subject(s): Energy and Environmental Studies, Health and medicine and law, Tourism, Green Transformation
Published by: Pécsi Tudományegyetem
Keywords: sustainability; sustainable development; medical hotel; health tourism;

Summary/Abstract: The concept of sustainable development is more and more popular. In tourism, and particularly in health tourism, it is important to create value along with the principles of sustainability. Health tourism and its essential service providers, the medical hotels, offer their services by relying heavily on the pillars of sustainability (economic, social, natural). The goal of the respresentative research (based on the quality of hotels) is to examine the results achieved by the medical hotels in terms of sustainability and to assess and systematize their attitude towards sustainability. The results are positive, but there is a general lack of a real sustainable way of thinking.

  • Issue Year: 4/2019
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 71-88
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Hungarian
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