SOPRON ÖRÖKSÉGTURISZTIKAI ÉRTÉKEINEK VIZSGÁLATA A TURISTÁK TÉRHASZNÁLATA ALAPJÁN
AN ANALYSIS OF SOPRON’S HERITAGE TOURISM ASSETS BASED ON TOURISTS’ SPATIAL USE

Summary/Abstract: When looking at the touristic supply of Sopron one can clearly draw the conclusion that one of the important touristic locations of the city is the inner city. Sopron has become, acknowledged as the city of fidelity, a well-known venue of urban and heritage tourism for the Hungarian population. Many identify the city with the Fire Tower and the historical downtown, with its buildings and museums. The author examined with a primary research – a questionnaire survey – how popular the respective heritage tourism venues of the inner city are, seen from the visitation focus of guests arriving at Sopron, and knowing the tourists' routes, where they move, might be significant for several developing areas. How can, more organically, the city core fit into the functional and system-like operation of the city? Where do narrow cross-sections form from the wiev-pont of transport? How does the intensity of the use of public places form and change? Which spots and centres are favourable for the tourists and the attraction-management to place informative orientation signs and marketing-like advertisements? What characterises the use of space by tourists within the city core, what junctions and main directions of spatial movements can be identified? It is believed that the survey will give new information of the tourism in Sopron not only from a theoretical aspect; the knowledge of the spatial movements of tourists can also be important in visitor and attraction management. The spatial movements of tourists may mark junctions that may be suitable for creating platforms of advertisements, assisting the tourism service providers and also the attractions of the city, but may as well be important when deciding where to place information signs. The data known designate the popular routes and also highlight the deficiencies, on the ground of which more attention can be given to values pushed into the background until now, using adequate management tools.

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