DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2021, 13(1):4-23 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2021.001
According to Maier's (2001) hypothesis, the democratization process in post-socialist countries would lead to the increased importance of stakeholder and citizen participation in urban planning. Increasing circles of stakeholders would be able to join and become empowered. The objective of the present paper is to revisit Maier's hypothesis in the Hungarian context. We attempt to shed light on the main factors that shape the framework conditions of participation in urban planning; we ask if the three decades of transition can be described as an approximation to the Western standards in urban planning, as Maier suggested.We conducted 49 semi-structured...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2021, 13(1):24-38 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2021.002
Land use plan is a fundamental pillar for shaping the future of urban development plans to deal with national and regional issues. There is a merger between land use objectives as a resource and general development objectives to define clearly the importance of a developmental system for comprehensive land-use planning. Most regional plans do not follow integrated system of land-use planning without considering urban settlement in creating the vision and goals of their policies. As a result, most sectoral development plans are created in isolation without systematic consideration of standards and development tools of urban development. Consequently,...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2021, 13(1):39-57 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2021.003
Rural tourism seems to be an appropriate means of revitalizing abandoned rural areas and ensuring their sustainability in the future through job preservation or job creation. The Vojvodina Province (Northern Serbia) has very good resource potentials in rural tourism, but in order for rural tourist products to become competitive, it is necessary to work on the segmentation of the tourism market or consumer profiling. The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the profiles of tourists, motivational factors that most influence the choice of rural tourism. The research was conducted in the traditional rural surroundings, on a sample of 491 respondents....
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2021, 13(1):58-73 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2021.004
Recent profound and fundamental changes in information technology and electronics have led to a change in consumer habits, which also characterizes the tourism sector. In the e-world, consumers' information search and communication habits are changing; we are living in an era of a communicational paradigm shift. Online Travel Agencies (OTA) are not only the dominant channels of booking and sales nowadays, but also the channels of information gathering and guidance in the accommodation-related information of the services. Some of the information on OTA is objective; others are subjective - the latter being consumer information and opinions. Subjective...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2021, 13(1):74-93 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2021.005
The paper deals with the development of the size and structure of agriculture in the Cohesion Regions of the Visegrad Group countries. It focuses on the specification of the basic tendencies of the development of this sector in the region of the Central Europe in the period after the accession of the Visegrad countries to the European Union in 2004. For this purpose, the dynamics of the development and structure of agriculture are analyzed and compared over a period of years 2005-2015 in the NUTS 2 regions of the V4 countries (the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia). The following indicators are used: total values of agricultural production,...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2021, 13(1):94-120 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2021.006
Sarajevo is a very interesting tourist destination. The official statistics of Canton Sarajevo show that tourists usually visit Sarajevo individually. The purpose of this paper is to explore the differences between foreign tourists who came to Sarajevo individually and the ones whose travel was organized by a travel agency. The aim of this research is to compare foreign tourists from the aspect of the travel mode in relation to the declaration of tourists' satisfaction with a tourist destination, the general quality of this tourist destination offer, overall satisfaction, and loyalty. For the purposes of data analysis, descriptive statistics and Mann-Whitney...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2021, 13(1):121-152 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2021.007
For a long time, companies in the financial sector and their management were measured exclusively in terms of business success. However, the public debate on issues such as equality, diversity, inclusion, and sustainability has now also reached the financial sector.At the same time, brands are increasingly being asked to demonstrate their attitude. Financial service providers are increasingly meeting this demand. However, the distribution of financial and insurance products in Germany is largely carried out by commercially independent small and medium-sized distribution partners.This research project aims to identify the significance of...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2021, 13(1):153-166 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2021.008
In this research, tourism was underlined as a health protection practice, which is focused upon the perception by individuals of Coronavirus-19 danger and uncertainty, particularly in Jordan perspective. The study investigates the effect on behavioral purpose on untact tourism of Coronavirus-19 risk perception and ambiguity, depended upon the theoretical models of the extended Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and the Health Belief Model (HBM). The online survey was conducted among Jordanian adults in April and May 2020. A total of 380 questionnaires about data collection were used. The results indicate that the perception of affective risk is a major...