POSSIBILITIES OF CREATING CROSS-BORDER TOURIST DESTINATIONS IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE

Tourism development is one of today's popular tools for mitigating regional inequalities, thus many regions see tourism as an opportunity to break out. This is no different in the case of border regions, where development in this direction is also supported by cross-border, EU-financed or (co...

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Main Authors: Nikoletta NEMES, Eva HAPP
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Language:English
Published: Editura Universităţii din Oradea 2024-08-01
Series:Geo Journal of Tourism and Geosites
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description Tourism development is one of today's popular tools for mitigating regional inequalities, thus many regions see tourism as an opportunity to break out. This is no different in the case of border regions, where development in this direction is also supported by cross-border, EU-financed or (co-)financed programs. The aim of the paper is to investigate whether there is a real possibility of connecting the areas along the national borders for tourism purposes and creating sustainable tourism in these regions. The study examines the possibility of creating cross-border tourist destinations in three pre-selected areas in the Hungarian-Croatian, Hungarian-Slovenian and North-Western Hungarian-Slovakian border regions during the last two, already closed programming periods. Results of the research show, that cooperation between border countries for real tourism purposes is still possible today, and it only really aimed at creating uniform reception areas that ignore borders in a few cases. After the implementation of the programs, cross-border destinations as sellable tourist products were not created. The study shows that, in the case of two regions, the potential is given and the initiatives aimed at creating cross-border destinations are promising.
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spelling doaj-art-343a71acc60648b39e84c95adc8882fd2025-01-28T08:48:15ZengEditura Universităţii din OradeaGeo Journal of Tourism and Geosites2065-08172065-11982024-08-015531066107510.30892/gtg.55308-1280POSSIBILITIES OF CREATING CROSS-BORDER TOURIST DESTINATIONS IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPENikoletta NEMES0Eva HAPP1Széchenyi István University, Doctoral School of Regional- and Business Administration Sciences, Győr, Hungary, e-mail: ddrmi.nemes@gmail.comSzéchenyi István University, Faculty of Business, Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Győr, Hungary, e-mail: happ.eva@sze.huTourism development is one of today's popular tools for mitigating regional inequalities, thus many regions see tourism as an opportunity to break out. This is no different in the case of border regions, where development in this direction is also supported by cross-border, EU-financed or (co-)financed programs. The aim of the paper is to investigate whether there is a real possibility of connecting the areas along the national borders for tourism purposes and creating sustainable tourism in these regions. The study examines the possibility of creating cross-border tourist destinations in three pre-selected areas in the Hungarian-Croatian, Hungarian-Slovenian and North-Western Hungarian-Slovakian border regions during the last two, already closed programming periods. Results of the research show, that cooperation between border countries for real tourism purposes is still possible today, and it only really aimed at creating uniform reception areas that ignore borders in a few cases. After the implementation of the programs, cross-border destinations as sellable tourist products were not created. The study shows that, in the case of two regions, the potential is given and the initiatives aimed at creating cross-border destinations are promising.https://gtg.webhost.uoradea.ro/PDF/GTG-3-2024/gtg.55308-1280.pdftourismdestinationeast-central europecross-border destinationregion
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POSSIBILITIES OF CREATING CROSS-BORDER TOURIST DESTINATIONS IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE
Geo Journal of Tourism and Geosites
tourism
destination
east-central europe
cross-border destination
region
title POSSIBILITIES OF CREATING CROSS-BORDER TOURIST DESTINATIONS IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE
title_full POSSIBILITIES OF CREATING CROSS-BORDER TOURIST DESTINATIONS IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE
title_fullStr POSSIBILITIES OF CREATING CROSS-BORDER TOURIST DESTINATIONS IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE
title_full_unstemmed POSSIBILITIES OF CREATING CROSS-BORDER TOURIST DESTINATIONS IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE
title_short POSSIBILITIES OF CREATING CROSS-BORDER TOURIST DESTINATIONS IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE
title_sort possibilities of creating cross border tourist destinations in east central europe
topic tourism
destination
east-central europe
cross-border destination
region
url https://gtg.webhost.uoradea.ro/PDF/GTG-3-2024/gtg.55308-1280.pdf
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