DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2021, 13(2):4-6 
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2021, 13(2):13-33 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2021.011
This research paper analyses shifts in the Visegrád Group's (Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) identity as a regional integration platform and, in particular, links between Europeanization, illiberalism and V4 geopolitical identity. This provides a background for investigating contested ideas of European integration that discursively frame Central Europe's 'illiberal regionalism'. I suggest that this regi onalism does not represent a coherent or stable political project. Tensions involved in this regionalist shift are exemplified by 'revolutionary' Hungarian and Polish national conservative agendas and their interaction with the more measured...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2021, 13(2):34-51 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2021.012
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are developing rapidly, but the deeper understanding of tourists' attitudes towards AVs is still little explored in social sciences. Bearing this in mind, this study aims to identify the expected changes in tourism arising from the technology, and the openness towards AV-based tourism services. For this, an online data collection (n = 671) has been completed among Hungarian tourists. Prior to the data collection, a literature review was conducted to identify and categorise the changes expected from the spread of AVs. Based on the empirical results, tourists would be willing to give up control to the AVs in a foreign environment,...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2021, 13(2):52-65 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2021.013
The objective of the study is to examine the correspondence between city status and city identity and the factors explaining the spectacularly large number of small cities in Hungary. A further aim is to explore the positive or negative impacts of the acquisition of city status on the development of the urban network. The study, using a historical approach, aimed to identify the key enabling factors of the transformation of small towns into cities. This was achieved through the qualitative assessment of specific properties of the urban micro space, the presentation of various life stories and a review of the main milestones of the development path....
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2021, 13(2):66-100 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2021.014
With the political agreement by the European Parliament and the Council on the Commission's proposal for 2021-2027 on the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the Cohesion Fund (CF) and the European Territorial Cooperation Programmes ("Interreg"), and all the other instruments related to cohesion policy, we have entered the final stage of the provisions for the new EU programming period: the final approval of the legal texts (EC, 2020a).Thus, the main objective of our study is to present the most important challenges at the Member State level (Hungary) with a bottom-up and practice-oriented perspective. Methodologically, three specific...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2021, 13(2):101-124 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2021.015
Both at national and EU level, the differentiation of specific territorial units is a key issue in development policy. The objective of the delimitation at the highest legal level is to mitigate territorial differences; it is intended to provide support for the delimited (beneficiary) territorial units. Benefits (e.g. the rate and intensity of support) are fundamentally influenced by development and growth opportunities, so the methods and the results of delimitation are both politically and professionally sensitive. This is particularly important for rural areas and rural development, because the beneficiaries' delimitation - or lack thereof - is...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2021, 13(2):125-138 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2021.016
Although cross-border cooperation has traditionally been treated as a research issue of geopolitics and governance, use of data from European Union (EU) funded Interreg programmes opened up opportunities for comparative and in-depth analysis. The importance of Interreg programmes, as instruments of the European Territorial Cooperation goal, has been constantly on the rise since its inception as INTERREG Community Initiative, then becoming part of the cohesion policy mainstream in 2007. In the 2021 -2027 programming period, for first time since its setup, Interreg has received lower funding, which requires a higher stress on cooperation and thematic...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2021, 13(2):7-12 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2021.010