The importance of Spa and Wellness Hotels in leisure destinations in Hungary

Attila Albert Tóth

《International Leisure Review》 5卷2期 (2016/12) Pp. 3-29

https://doi.org/10.6298/ILR.2016.5.6

摘要

Attila Albert This paper is dealing with one particular field of the Hungarian leisure and recreation tourism industry which has a special and significant role both in tourism and society. The hotels, including first of all the spa hotels and the wellness hotels that are operating in the holiday resorts and the settlements concerned, realise most of the income in the Hungarian hotel industry. The primary research analysed the most important holiday resorts and the hotel industry of the destinations of the health tourism and the territorial distribution of the hotel industry in Hungary on the micro-regional level and the role of the hotels in the tourism. The analysis covering a period of nine years (2007-2015) and the structured interviews with tourism experts and hotel directors also confirmed the results according to which not only the capital but also the leisure hotels operating in the most important holiday resorts and the spa and wellness hotels operating in the settle ments with thermal and medical baths contribute greatly to the economic and social life and development of the given settlements.

關鍵字

Hungary ； leisure and health tourism ； spa and wellness hotels