DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2018, 10(3):8-13 
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2018, 10(3):162-179 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2018.029
The main aim of this jurisprudential analysis is to review the transforming regulation and practice on the regional development tasks of the Hungarian county governments. The main European models of the regional (2nd or 3rd tier) municipalities will be reviewed by the article. Traditionally, the county municipalities have had an important role in the Hungarian public administration. The changing role of the counties in the development policies will be analysed, as well. Although this role was weakened after 1990, the new county governments have had significant service provider competences until 2011, but their development tasks were just partial. This...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2018, 10(3):180-198 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2018.030
Hungary was among the first member states where financial instruments of the EU were introduced in lager scale and scope in 2007. However, in the new development phase (2014-2020) experiences of the delivery system have been just partly applied. The renewed, centralized model has a lower level diversity in terms of the type of financial institutions responsible for financial intermediation. Despite their numerous advantages the structural changes hold many risks on growth and on local economic development as well, since the embeddedness of the financial intermediaries in local economies and their diversity are among the core features to provide the...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2018, 10(3):199-213 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2018.031
The study seeks to answer the question as to why the combined performance of agriculture and forestry can be explained by the fact that in an EU member state with an agricultural disadvantage and with an advanced economy, the size of the cultivated area is high. The reasons are complex and suggest a deliberately chosen strategy, the essence of which is that in Austria the social perception of agriculture is far more favorable than it would be expected from its GDP contribution. The reasons for this are partly rooted in the history of the past, but may also be linked to a more immediate and strategic decision making primarily on the transformation of...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2018, 10(3):214-227 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2018.032
Western societies are facing the same problems worldwide regarding the provision of public transport services in rural, sparsely populated and peripheral areas. One of the main reasons is that due to the increasing number of cars (which can satisfy the mobility needs much better), the number of passengers of public transport services are steadily decreasing (ITF, 2015). However, we do not forget that supplying these areas with public transportation have in fact always been problematic: the dispersed settlement network is a given fact as well as the low population density that never generated high demand (Ambrosino, Nelson & Romanazzo, 2003).Passengers...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2018, 10(3):5-7
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2018, 10(3):14-32 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2018.021
'My Region, My Europe, Our Future' (EC, 2017). This is the main message of the Seventh Report on Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion. In the post 2020 period, the European Commission continues to focus on the compliance with challenges of the knowledge-based economy, and in parallel, stands for a strong territorial approach and increased synergy and coordination of the connected sectoral financial means and measures. The question is if Member States are ready to face the challenges that are specified in the report, such as digital revolution, globalisation, demographic change and social cohesion, economic convergence and climate change. In connection...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2018, 10(3):33-52 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2018.022
The urban development methods in the 21st century focus more and more on the different kinds of IT solutions which are increasingly embedded in the operation of urban functions. Therefore, great attention has to be paid on them during the planning process. The so-called smart city solutions are of key importance from the cities' social-economic development viewpoint, and together with their rapid spread, their scientific analysis is very important as well.This article deals with the growing importance of cities in the 21st century. Different factors affect this process. The first one is demographic change, the global increase of urban population....
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2018, 10(3):53-69 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2018.023
One form of climate change vulnerability is the increase in the number, frequency and length of heat waves related to temperature rise. The protection against the health and sanitary risks of heat waves will pose a major challenge at national, regional, as well as local level in the future.The aim of the study is to present the main results of an assessment of climate change vulnerability conducted in a research project. Through statistical analyses, vulnerability was calculated based on the exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity at district level (LAU1), which is a complex information carrier about the vulnerability of population and institutions...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2018, 10(3):70-89 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2018.024
The paper focuses on the interrelatedness of the location strategies of the advanced producer services and the urban hierarchies in the Central European countries based on the 36 metropole cities of the region (9 countries), and focuses on how far the Central European metropolises are integrated into the international networks of the advanced producer service firms (APS firms). Along with the globalization process a transnational urban network is developing in the last few decades, the international flows of networks, information, labour and capital are getting more intense, and the global service sector tends to locate offices where a critical mass...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2018, 10(3):90-107 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2018.025
Behind the selection of location choices for services and retail sector, many factors work in conjunction. This research tried to determine which factors had an influence on location choice and agglomeration and which factors worked together to decide the location choice. This study empirically tests location determinant hypothesis. Our findings suggested that infrastructure, corruption and law, labour law and workforce had a significant effect on location choice. Other factors such as trade regulation, competition, sales and supply, access to land and permit, access to finance, institutional administration and political constraint had the insignificant...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2018, 10(3):108-119 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2018.026
The centre-periphery relation is a dual model (Nemes Nagy, 1998), several meanings of which can be defined, like locational, development or social dualism. This paper is meant to analyse one example of the manifestation of development - in other words: economic - dualism: this is the spatial realisation of access or exclusion that can be experienced in case of credit institute activities.An important starting point for the issue is the business philosophy and operational distinction of Hungarian actors in the credit institute market (a segment of the representatives of global commercial banks and locally embedded savings cooperatives), and the...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2018, 10(3):120-142 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2018.027
Economic development at the national level is often accompanied by territorial divergence at sub-national levels, which phenomenon became even more noticeable during and after the global financial and economic crisis. Current development policy have to face the well-known equity versus efficiency challenge to sustain the prosperity of the most advanced regions and, at the same time, to tackle the divergence between advanced and lagging regions. For this reason, a comprehensive knowledge is necessary about the long-run, interdependent dynamics of national and regional level growth. Our research contributes to this knowledge through studying alternative...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2018, 10(3):143-161 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2018.028
The increase in supply and demand in thermal tourism has led to the intensification of competition. This situation causes the thermal hotels to spend more effort on issues such as understanding customer expectations and providing customer satisfaction. Food and beverage services have great importance in all areas of tourism as well as in thermal hotels. Thus, the main purpose of the study is to reveal the factors affecting the tourists' satisfaction or dissatisfaction in food and beverage services in thermal hotels. The research was conducted in thermal hotels in Denizli, Turkey. Tourists' online reviews on TripAdvisor were analysed by content analysis....