Kempinski Hotel Corvinus Budapest has announced that 'Kempinski The Spa' has once again been crowned ‘Hungary’s Best Hotel Spa’ at the prestigious 2026 World Spa Awards. Reflecting on the distinction, Spa Manager Katalin O’Nagy shared her heartfelt gratitude: ‘To be honoured with this accolade for the sixth time is a profound privilege. This achievement stands […]

Switzerland will contribute 87.6 million Swiss francs to ten projects in Hungary across eight sectors, the presidential Sándor Palace said after a meeting between Hungarian President András Baka and Swiss counterpart Guy Parmelin at the UN General Assembly in New York City on Wednesday. The Swiss-funded program will support initiatives in areas such as energy […]

Hungary is rolling out the red carpet for World Tourism Day, with nearly 100 special events across 57 Tourinform offices in the country between September 21 and 30, VisitHungary has announced. The celebrations, tied to the UN's World Tourism Day on September 27, showcase the country's diverse offerings – from themed walks and local heritage […]

K+H Bank, the Hungarian unit of Belgian's KBC, delivered a strong performance in the first half of the year, however, government measures like the windfall tax and the bank levy reduced its results by HUF 78bn, CEO Peter Roebben said at a press conference on Wednesday. He emphasized that the bank’s operating revenue rose by […]

The sales of organic products in Hungary rose by 28% between 2023 and 2025, almost double the pace of growth for the food and beverage market as a whole during that period, the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (ÖMKi) has announced. Sales in value terms reached HUF 53.8 billion. Sales in volume rose by 26%. […]

Hungarian rolling stock company Magyar Vagon (MVV) has won a tender called by the Leo Mobility Management (LMM) rail leasing company (ROSCO) to deliver 200 NEO modular passenger carriages, MVV said on Tuesday. MVV will deliver the carriages over a period of about two years and LMM will lease these vehicles to European rail operators. […]

The House of Terror Museum, the Budapest-based memorial and exhibition dedicated to the victims of the fascist Arrow Cross and communist-era secret police regimes, reopened in Budapest on Tuesday morning after a temporary closure from Sept 15, Zoltan Tarr, minister for culture and social relations, said in a social media post. The minister noted that […]

The Hungarian oil and gas company MOL Plc. has notified the market on the website of the Budapest Stock Exchange that it has completed construction work on the AV3 unit at the Danube Refinery, which was damaged in a fire last fall. The project was completed according to schedule, so once the construction equipment has […]

Last year, nearly three billion electronic payment transactions were carried out in Hungary, up from 2.5 billion the previous year, while the proportion of users of electronic payment solutions and businesses accepting such transactions is also steadily rising. That is according to Miklós Luspay, Director of the Financial Infrastructures and Payment Systems Directorate at the […]

Listed property company Appeninn booked a first-half loss of EUR 6.2 million as portfolio revaluations resulting from the stronger forint weighed, an earnings report released on Monday shows. Appeninn booked after-tax profit of EUR 3.4 million in the base period. The fresh P+L statement shows an EUR 8.8 million property revaluation loss, including a EUR […]

Researchers of Hungary's HUN-REN Wigner research center have been awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for developing a new method for crystal structure determination, the HUN-REN research network said on Monday. According to HUN-REN's website, the technique developed by Miklós Tegze, Gábor Bortel and Gyula Faigel at the Wigner […]

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Amid rising trading volume, the Budapest Stock Exchange (BÉT) stock index strengthened this week; on Friday, the BUX closed at 152,688.63 points, up 0.11%, or 170.36 points, from the previous week. Weekly trading volume totaled HUF 143.7 billion, up from HUF 98.7 billion the previous week, with leading stocks posting mixed results. On Monday, in […]

The management of PannErgy, as Hungary's leading geothermal heat producing company, has set a consolidated IFRS EBITDA target range of HUF 4,300–4,450 million for the 2026 business year (published in January 2026), the median value of which represents organic growth compared to the expected results of the 2025 business year. The company generated consolidated sales […]

Twelve Hungarian hotels are included in the Michelin Guide Global Hotel Selection this year, Michelin Guide says in a press release. The Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace Budapest and the Matild Palace, a Luxury Collection Hotel, received a two-key rating. Ten other hotels are listed with one Michelin key, all of which were already on […]

Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the winner of last year's Nobel Prize in Literature, has received the Doctor Honoris Causa title of Budapest's Eötvös Lóránd University. László Krasznahorkai is truly deserving of the university’s highest honor, based on his body of work, which enriches universal culture with enduring values, and his internationally outstanding achievements, according to […]