MAGYARORSZÁG JÁRÁSI SZINTŰ TURISZTIKAI CENTRUMTÉRSÉGEINEK LEHATÁROLÁSA ÉS HAZÁNK KIEMELT TURISZTIKAI TÉRSÉGEIVEL TÖRTÉNŐ ÖSSZEVETÉSE TÉRÖKONOMETRIAI MÓDSZEREKKEL

Abstract

As in other fields of economy, centers and peripheries can be noticed in the case of tourism as
well, which can be explained partly - but to a significant extent - by the different occurrences,
territorial appearances, concentrations and deconcentrations of tourist attractions. Several
attempts have been made to subdivide the tourism regions of Hungary, but the lack of an unified
system of criterias and methodologies has always made the implementation of the results
problematic. The most recent identification and delimitation of accentuated tourism
development areas along a destination logic started in 2016, taking into account both supply
and demand factors and the tourism potential of the areas. As a result, the latest government
decree on tourist areas was published in September 2020, deciding on the creation of 11 new
tourist areas, supplementing the previous priority development areas. Within the framework of
the present study, as a kind of methodological experiment as well, based on the tourism
performance, we try to subdivide the tourist regions of Hungary at the district level with the
help of spatial econometric methods, and compare our results with the previously mentioned
11 tourist regions. We try to examine their matches and possible differences. One of the main
results of the research is to prove or disprove whether spatial econometrics can be a suitable
tool in the delineation of tourist areas.