In November 2022, 691,000 guests spent 1.7 million tourism nights in commercial accommodation establishments (hotels, boarding houses, camping sites, bungalow complexes and community hostels). The number of guests rose by 17% and that of nights by 7.8% compared to the same period of the previous year, the Central Statistical Office reports. Compared to November 2021, […]

In 2022, Budapest Airport, the management company of the Hungarian capital's Ferenc Liszt International Airport, applied for the European Union’s CEF 2 Transport - Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Facility funding program with its Net Zero Airport project, and a grant contract for the installation of 83 charging stations and 102 charging points was recently signed, the […]

From 2022, telecom companies in Hungary are no longer obliged to display their subscribers' data in books or any other medium, ending the era of printed phone book after 140 years. Magyar Telekom's printed copies last year were the last ones in this category. One of the copies was donated to the Postal Museum. The […]

More than 100,000 people visited the Ferenc Móra Museum and its exhibition spaces last year in the southeastern Hungarian city of Szeged, the institution informed MTI on Wednesday. According to the statement, the Ferenc Móra Museum in Szeged closed an outstandingly successful year: in 2022 more than 100,000 visitors visited the museum's main building and […]

5% of inter-company invoices in Hungary remained unpaid last year, while 2.3% of invoices had to be written off in 2021, according to an analysis of payment habits by credit insurer Atradius. According to the survey of 200 Hungarian companies, 40% of firms found that their customers paid later than a year earlier, compared with […]

There are currently 727 patients with the new coronavirus infection in hospital in Hungary (almost twice as many as in the previous week), 36 of whom are on ventilators (four times the figure in the previous week), the government's Coronavirus Press Center said on Wednesday. 1,597 new infections were confirmed in the previous week, bringing […]

The Tourism Business Climate Index (TCI) stood at minus 22 points in December last year, indicating that the sector's operators in Hungary continue to perceive their situation as deteriorating. Compared to November, the index fell by seven points and has deteriorated by 15 points since September, the National Association of Tourism and Hospitality Employers (VIMOSZ) […]

Two thirds of Hungarians have some form of insurance; the majority have property insurance, mostly for property and motor vehicles, according to a survey by UNIQA Insurance. The summary shows that half of the 18–50-year-olds surveyed online also have life insurance. The majority of graduates have at least three policies, and the proportion of people […]

When my transfer to Budapest was announced in October 2021, I felt great joy and satisfaction, as I would be completing my diplomatic career in a country with a long and glorious history whose people have been linked to the Greek people for centuries. Thus, I arrived in Budapest on January 19, 2020, full of […]

In view of the great success of ‘Vaszary. The exhibition’, which includes two dozen works by János Vaszary that have been latent until now, will be open until April 2 at the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest. Of the 70 or so works on show, 24 were previously unknown to both the profession and the […]

World record holder swimmer Kristóf Milák among men and hurdler Luca Kozák among women have been elected as the 2022 Hungarian Athletes of the Year by the Hungarian Sports Journalists' Association. The men's national football team won the award in the traditional team category, while the women's fencing team came to be the individual team […]

The value of exports in EUR terms was 18% and that of imports 29% larger in November 2022 than in the same period of the previous year. The balance of the Hungary’s external trade in goods deteriorated by EUR 1.2 billion, according to data published by the country’s Central Statistical Office this Monday. Compared to […]

A company providing complex renewable energy services was founded by Biggeorge Holding and Energy Independence Kft. under the name 8G Energy Holding Plc., then the joint company bought Solarkraft Home Plc., owned by Energy Independence, which in the future will continue under the name 8G Energy Solutions Plc. operation. The two founders of Energy Independence, […]

4iG and the Hungarian state concluded the final purchase agreement for the purchase of Vodafone Hungary, 4iG announced on the website of the Budapest Stock Exchange this morning. The value of the transaction is HUF 660 billion and the deal can be closed at the end of January. According to the announcement by the info-communications […]

The Hungarian League Against Cancer organized a march from Batthyány square along the River Danube to Margitsziget (Margaret Island) this Sunday as part of the international World Cancer Walk. The march was led by the president of the Hungarian League Against Cancer, Balázs Rozványi. The event is part of a 24-hour world walk involving more […]