DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2015, 7(2):5-6 
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2015, 7(2):14-27 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2015.013
Local development has been always considered an important instrument in the renewal of the rural economy, society and settlements, but recent changes of rural areas led to the conceptual expansion of the term. Besides locality-based development, the significance of the novel concept of place-based development has also been recognised. Place-based development not only takes the local characteristics into account, but tries to harmonise the development processes of the different sectors and territorial levels. The core of place-based approach is the well-coordinated, multilateral and continuous communication between the actors and institutes from different...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2015, 7(2):291-308 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2015.029
In a city's development a river and riverbank played important role, however in recent decades the functions of them have changed, transformed, especially in major cities in the more developed countries, so the city administration was faced with a new phenomenon and geographical space: the changing riverbanks, and the utilization, development, revitalization of them has become a key issue. The various real processes showed the direction that these areas should be provided to the people, and the recreation service will be important for the local residents and tourists. Overall, the urban waterfront development is an increasingly important researched...
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DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2015, 7(2):28-44 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2015.014
Different regional development patterns and processes have emerged in the Visegrad countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) since their accession into the European Union, in the past ten years. The reasons behind these different regional development trajectories mostly have been contributed quite rightly to the economic transformation processes where these post-socialist countries have to reorganize and to reconstruct their economies.The aim of this paper is to highlight the possible linkages between the individual countries' particular central and territorial development institutional settings with the different regional development...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2015, 7(2):45-64 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2015.015
This article examines the evolution of systems of cities in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland since 1950, and especially since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 when Central and Eastern European cities started to experience the process of metropolisation. This period corresponds to an intense globalisation of the economy which has been characterised by some researchers as an emergence of a world urban system. While the metropolises of formerly industrialised countries had already been strongly interconnected on a macro-regional level, Central and Eastern European countries took on the unique approach of prioritising relations directly at an...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2015, 7(2):65-80 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2015.016
The objective of the study is to point out, what kind of measurement methodologies and factor groups are used to determinate the depth of the spatial integration in the national and international scientific literature. Integration means in this sense the interconnection of several (spatial) units (Kulcsár-Rostás, 1989; Kovács, 2001; Kiss, 2005). One of the most widely interpreted types of the integration is the economic integration, which can be applied to enterprises and spatial units as well. This study focuses on the last one and examines it at three territorial levels, distinguishing global, supranational (among national states) and subnational...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2015, 7(2):81-94 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2015.017
The aspiration of Serbia to join the European Union requires the transformation of the educational system of the country to adapt EU mechanisms. Such endeavours are reflected in the Law on Higher Education modificated in July 2013 and Law on Adult Education, wich is published in 2014. These may infer social and economic consequences on a wide scale. Our intention was to present the structure of the Serbian education system and the distribution of the educational level of the population applying secondary data analysis in our study. Furthermore, our goal was to shed light on a particular section of the Law on Higher Education which regulates the recognition...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2015, 7(2):95-117 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2015.018
The thesis of the research: The apparition and operation of regional economic partnerships is a precondition of regional cooperation.In the society of our age it is of major importance to strengthen the communities' values, which represent belonging, standing and last but not least financial security. This supposition can be taken as a general statement, but it is essential from the point of view of Szekely people's picture about future, and has its part in finding ourselves. Building a community does not only mean sharing the same values and thoughts, but can also mean a common resource management in case the participants would like a joint utilization...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2015, 7(2):118-137 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2015.019
The number of twin settlement relations grows continuously in the European countries, including Hungary and Croatia as well. During our quantitative research we examined the inhibitory factors of twin settlement co-operations, the nature of relationships, taking into account the current content of relationships as well. We have also mapped, what benefits the questioned local authorities can expect from the co-operation, which target groups are involved in this, and how intensively they can involve the public. The survey explored the formed municipal and county government cooperations in Zala, Somogy and Baranya counties on the Hungarian side, while...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2015, 7(2):138-156 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2015.020
This paper describes the Hungarian aspects and the latest results of the so-called Eastern European health paradox in terms of (micro-)regions. In particular, this paper aims at highlighting the spatial correlations of premature mortality and the main causes of death by gender as well as their socio-economic and spatial embeddedness. The tool for our study is represented by exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA): the main health inequalities of Hungary's micro-regions are described with the use of global autocorrelation tests as well as regression models suitable for the identification of general and spatial features.According to our findings,...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2015, 7(2):157-174 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2015.021
Health tourism plays an important role in regional development - mainly in settlement development plans. This paper offers a composite competitiveness index for settlements - an index elaborated on the basis of general competitiveness theories, but which also utilises relevant factors of tourism competitiveness. Our analysis is limited to settlements with medicinal and thermal baths from two Hungarian regions, West Transdanubia and South Transdanubia. The former is a central region from the perspective of tourist flows and the latter is a peripheral region - which entails more opportunities for analysis. After a short review of currently recognised...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2015, 7(2):175-187 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2015.022
The objective of the study is to introduce the potentials of local economic development in one of the least favoured micro regions, Tamási. The paper examines operating and planned activities at settlements of the micro region. The authors introduce local economic development activities that support tourism. The economic development planning in Tamási micro region has typically two directions. One of them is the utilisation of thermal water and the use of further potentials of the thermal bath (Ability), such as to achieve tourism destination function in Hungary. Secondly, the local government aims to sell its fruits and vegetables produced in the...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2015, 7(2):188-205 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2015.023
Food festivals are a mainstay of the festival sector and some surveys show that they currently account for 30 percent. Despite this, we know very little about this important part of event tourism, and its economic and social impacts. This study tries to show, by econometric methods, the impacts on the local economy made by food festivals - and, at the same time, fhe effects -of the multiplicator and spillover factors.This paper looks for some correlation between the local index-number of tourism and gastronomic festivals, using data from more than 200 events and festivals and 123 settlements. The first step in the survey was to determine two tourism...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2015, 7(2):206-219 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2015.024
In our research we investigate the Hungarian higher education, which has undergone some significant transformation over the past decades. The Bologna process has fundamentally transformed our higher education: most of the previous single and undivided trainings were transformed into a two or three-stepped ones.After the previous regime the way opened for the founding of private colleges and their accreditation, which generated, again, a number of changes: the financing side showed novelties. This can be interpreted as a response to the state's strategy that it intends to withdraw from the financing of higher education.As a result, those young...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2015, 7(2):220-232 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2015.025
The public administration of the modern age and the significant changes taking place in the public administration in these days gave rise to the lecture. After a brief review of the historical antecedents a multi-stage process of reforms is mentioned as a result of which the so called closed system of public administration of Hungary became loose in a sense and the stiff margins which hindered the realization of the human resource management functions and presented a parting line between the establishments of the civil service and the competitive sector have been altered in a certain way. The present study deals with the direction towards which the...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2015, 7(2):233-257 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2015.026
Based on a representative sociological survey with a sample size of 5.000 respondents carried out in 2014, this study investigates the social well-being of people living in the nine largest Hungarian cities and their metropolitan regions, in comparison with survey results from 2005. In the analysis, particular attention has been paid to the Stiglitz Report's recommendations, to the multi-dimensional nature of social well-being, as well as to the simultaneous consideration of its objective and subjective factors. In the case of the Hungarian metropolitan regions, the eight dimensions of social well-being identified in the Stiglitz Report are explored:...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2015, 7(2):258-274 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2015.027
The main objective of this paper is to reveal the crucial economic and social factors determining the lack of social well-being in two disadvantaged micro-regions of different geographical locations in Hungary, and to summarize the similarities and differences between them. The study also compares the two analysed cases in terms of subjective well-being, as well as indicators of micro-regions and urban areas located in the same county in order to demonstrate the inter- and intraregional differences. According to the hypothesis, basically the east-west determined spatial inequalities of objective social well-being emerge also in connection with subjective...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2015, 7(2):275-290 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2015.028
The purpose of this paper is to define and estimate the human potential of the settlements in South-Cserehát,, Hungary. The human development index in the classical view can be estimated atmicroregional level with only hard distortions, to which the list of starting indicators differ from the usual indicators, such as GDP and GNI, the life expectancy at birth and the portion of taking part in education. However, the estimating calculations made for defining the human potential in a settlement level should be handled with hard restrictions , at the same time it perfectly shows the formation of the human factor in the region. As a research question the...