SOPRON ÖRÖKSÉGTURISZTIKAI ÉRTÉKEINEK VIZSGÁLATA A TURISTÁK TÉRHASZNÁLATA ALAPJÁN

Abstract

When looking at the touristic supply of Sopron one can clearly draw the conclusion that one of the
important touristic locations of the city is the inner city. Sopron has become, acknowledged as the
city of fidelity, a well-known venue of urban and heritage tourism for the Hungarian population.
Many identify the city with the Fire Tower and the historical downtown, with its buildings and
museums. The author examined with a primary research – a questionnaire survey – how popular
the respective heritage tourism venues of the inner city are, seen from the visitation focus of guests
arriving at Sopron, and knowing the tourists' routes, where they move, might be significant for
several developing areas. How can, more organically, the city core fit into the functional and
system-like operation of the city? Where do narrow cross-sections form from the wiev-pont of
transport? How does the intensity of the use of public places form and change? Which spots and
centres are favourable for the tourists and the attraction-management to place informative
orientation signs and marketing-like advertisements? What characterises the use of space by
tourists within the city core, what junctions and main directions of spatial movements can be
identified? It is believed that the survey will give new information of the tourism in Sopron not
only from a theoretical aspect; the knowledge of the spatial movements of tourists can also be
important in visitor and attraction management. The spatial movements of tourists may mark
junctions that may be suitable for creating platforms of advertisements, assisting the tourism
service providers and also the attractions of the city, but may as well be important when deciding
where to place information signs. The data known designate the popular routes and also highlight
the deficiencies, on the ground of which more attention can be given to values pushed into the
background until now, using adequate management tools