DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2019, 11(1):164-181 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2019.010 
As a result of the urbanization crisis taking place in the developing world, nearly a quarter of the Earth's urban population lives in slums (WUP, 2014), amounting to a total of 881 million people in the developing countries in 2014 (UN-HABITAT, 2016). Without effective intervention, these figures are expected to increase in the future, since the urban population of the developing countries will have risen by almost 1 billion people by 2030 (WUP, 2018). Slum upgrading is therefore an area of paramount importance that is realized in practice by taking one of two approaches: one of the most common procedures is external or expert planning, when identifying...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2019, 11(1):182-195 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2019.011
Similarly to Western Europe, our country is also fighting against cardiovascular diseases. The fight is strongly influenced by the prevention and early treatment of the evolved disease which define overall chance of survival of the patient beside life saving.The study examines this early treatment with statistical analysis. The aim is to form a comprehensive image of the current situation of Békés County of Hungary focusing on both the cardiovascular diseases (such as infarction) and the field of pre-hospital and hospital care. During my research I have leant on secondary data analyses relying on the data given by the National Ambulance Service...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2019, 11(1):4-20 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2019.001
The LEADER approach has prompted the EU to become more interested in its ability to address development issues through new forms of partnership. One of the examples of these partnerships is a "local action group" (LAG), which emerges as an institutionalized partnership between the public and private sectors. The aim of the contribution is the ex-post evaluation of the LEADER implementation mechanism at LAGs in the V4 countries (2007-2013). The first step was to obtain the statistical data, the theoretical knowledge and the legislative framework for implementing LEADER in all V4 countries. Subsequently, a comparison of the quantitative aspects of LEADER...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2019, 11(1):21-41 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2019.002
The aim of this paper is to examine how small towns have tackled the economic transformation in the post-communist period. It aims to contribute to the comprehensive research of post-communist transformation at different hierarchic levels of settlement system. The study is spatially focused on the Lower Spią region in Eastern Slovakia as it includes various kinds of small towns at relatively small area. Based on data provided by population censuses in 1991, 2001 and 2011, we assess development of economic performance of the towns by number of jobs, sectoral structure of jobs, ability to provide jobs for local economically active population, and spatial...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2019, 11(1):42-54 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2019.003
Both industrialization of agriculture and globalization of food trade have begun in the 20th century. Consumer habits have also undergone major changes in line with altered processes in the structure of food trade initiating merits as well as drawbacks. For instance, currently small-scale agriculture or local product supporting consumption is increasingly forced to play a marginal role all over the world. Small farmers are underrepresented in most traded venue, while production is shifting towards bigger market participants. Locally, this means that the volume of production, labour requirements and diversity of products will be reduced, consequently...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2019, 11(1):55-73 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2019.004
In our study we highlight the potential role of alternative food systems in local economic and community development through connecting literatures and good examples. We are focusing on a special short food supply chain form, named "buying groups". These sales channels are an alternative and innovative type of Community Supported Agriculture. Buying groups are grass-roots initiatives that support local food production and sales. Farmers and their buyers are a community, so that cooperation is beneficial to both the producer and the consumer. The primary advantage of the producer is that it can build up a direct and long-term relationship with its customers,...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2019, 11(1):74-94 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2019.005
The paper primarily focuses on Hungary's catching-up process in terms of real economics. Yet, considering that the presence or absence of real convergence can be verified in several ways, in this paper the catching-up process is analysed at three levels: I will consider how well or badly Hungary performed economically against the average performance of EU member states between 2000 and 2017 and when we can foreseeably reach such average performance level. Four groups of EU member states can be established by beta convergence analysis by taking both the initial income levels and growth rates into consideration; Hungary is also categorised accordingly....
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2019, 11(1):95-116 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2019.006
Events all around the world bring new challenges not only to tourists and tourism professionals, but also to law enforcement agencies. Today's new law enforcement challenges include, besides general police tasks, the elimination of terrorist threats in tourist destinations and at special events. Professional difficulties involve the lack of local knowledge of the stationed personnel, the estimated time of arrival at the venue, and the limitations of observation and communication in large crowds. The study, among other things, seeks to find out how recent events have influenced the leisure habits in tourist destinations and event venues, furthermore,...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2019, 11(1):117-126 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2019.007
E-world is characterized by the preference for electronic options, which provides more efficient, faster and more convenient solutions than the traditional way. The emergence of the Internet restructured and made dynamic the tourism sales chain, creating the concept of e-tourism. Online tourism services have made a significant contribution to the growing popularity of individually organized trips by providing convenient and quick information, comparison and transaction opportunities.At present, the former traditional and new, modern booking options live side by side. Based on hotel booking statistics, in our study we examine the characteristics...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2019, 11(1):127-148 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2019.008
Entrepreneurship is a source of financial, economic and social prosperity for countries as well as their regions. The objective of this article was to identify whether the young generation is interested in entrepreneurship, especially students of economics at public universities, and whether there are regional cross-border disparities in this respect (i.e., comparison of regional differences between neighbouring countries). 540 students of economics at public universities based in border areas were included in the survey group. The selected universities were the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ústí nad Labem (Czech Republic) and the Hochschule für Technik...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2019, 11(1):149-163 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2019.009
In accordance with the general world trend, a new form of breweries expands in the Czech beer market - mini-breweries. More than 220 new mini-breweries have been established in the period 2013-2016. This tendency does not let up. As the number of mini-breweries increases, we can inspect a strengthening competing pressure in this sector. Mini-breweries are supposed to start to really compete within among themselves and fight for customers. The data collection was done in January 2017 by means of an electronic survey on all population of mini-breweries (350 companies registered by December 31, 2017). The response rate was 41%. The aim of the paper is,...