Tourism and Local Governments in Hungary: The Position of Tourism in Local Council Committees of Local Governments

• Authors: Gábor Kozma , Gábor Michalkó , Zsolt Radics
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Introduction. The objective of this paper is to investigate the position of tourism in the committee structure of the local councils of Hungarian local governments. Material and methods. The data were sourced from websites of the settlements concerned and all the results obtained statistically evaluated using the method of descriptive statistics. Results. From the data available, we can clearly determine the role of tourism in the committees of local governments, as well as the direction of changes after the 2010 election. The results also clearly identified the factors that determine the role of tourism in local council committees and the sectors that constitute the same committees with tourism. Conclusions. The role of tourism in committees of local councils is fundamentally unfavourable and the situation deteriorated after the 2010 election. The role of tourism in committees of local councils is closely related to the size of the population and the role of tourism in the given settlements.

Keywords

EN

local council; committee; tourism; Hungary

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Polish Journal of Sport and Tourism
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 208-211

Dates

published

1 - 09 - 2012

online

19 - 04 - 2013

Contributors

author

Gábor Kozma

• Department of Social Geography and Regional Development Planning, University of Debrecen, Hungary, 4032 Debrecen Egyetem tér 1, tel.: [phone], fax: [phone]

author

Gábor Michalkó

• Geographical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

author

Zsolt Radics

• University of Debrecen in Hungary, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development Planning

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10197-012-0020-3