A helyi idegenforgalmi adóbevételek szerepe az Észak-magyarországi régióban

Zoltán Bujdosó, Lóránt Dávid and Edit Játékos
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Zoltán Bujdosó: Károly Róbert Főiskola
Lóránt Dávid: Károly Róbert Főiskola
Edit Játékos: Károly Róbert Főiskola

Eszak-magyarorszagi Strategiai Fuzetek, 2007, vol. 4, issue 1, 55-69

Abstract: There is hardly any settlement today that does not consider tourism as a great opportunity. In most of the cases, the lack of finance causes the biggest difficulty. This is especially true in the case of one of the least developed regions of the country, Northern Hungary. Although, taking stock of its various attractions such as health and thermal spas, climatic medical resorts, world heritage sites, wine regions, historic towns, religious and historic memorial sites, national parks, mountain resorts, we find a rather diverse offer for the visitors. The missing capital for developments may possibly be drawn from the income from tourism tax. We show in our study that there is an unfortunately low number (one-fifth) of municipalities in the region which actually utilize their legally granted right to tax. Higher incomes from tourism tax are characteristic of Heves county in general, and on the level of municipalities, to those settlements which are historic towns, spas or popular mountain resorts. However, it cannot be claimed in a straightforward way that this tourism tax induces development in the tourism sector. There are some settlements where significant increase in terms of certain indicators of tourism development is matched with a considerable income from tourism tax (such as Mezőkövesd, Uppony or Regéc). Nevertheless, there is no such significant connection in most of the cases. What can be still acknowledged is that where there has been an obvious expansion of the sector, there will be higher incomes from the tourism tax. This in turn, can possibly help the local governments invest more in tourism development.

Date: 2007
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