ORFŰ REJTETT KONVENCIONÁLIS TURIZMUSA

Abstract

The development of Orfű village for recreational purposes started in the 1960s and gained momentum in the
1970s. In addition to the infrastructure designed to satisfy the needs of the nearby population (especially the
citizens of Pécs and Komló), attractions offering a good base for modern tourism, and also infrastructure and
suprastructure elements of tourism were created by the 1980s. The tourism sector of Orfű was characterised
all the time by a significant share of non-commercial accommodations: children’s camps, holiday homes of business companies, sport camp of the municipality etc. Over the last half a century, hundreds of second
homes have been built by owners usually living in Baranya county. These homes are probably scenes of
tourism the figures of which do not appear on official tourism statistics. When examining the significance of
a settlement in tourism in Hungary, it is usually the number of guest nights spent at commercial
accommodations that is considered – which in Orfű is not a real index of the performance of tourism. The
authors of the paper make an effort to judge the real volume of the tourism sector in Orfű. For this purpose,
it is the figures of the non-for-profit accommodations that are examined in the first place, but attempts are
also made for getting data concerning the turnover concealed by registered private accommodations and
rural tourism service providers. The most difficult task is to estimate the volume of non-official tourism
realised in second homes in private property. In the research conducted with the assistance and active
participation of the local TDMO, deep interviews are made and questionnaires are filled out, both in
traditional paper-based and in electronic form. As a result of the survey a more realistic picture is gained
about the actual volume of tourism in Orfű.