In January 2023, 570,000 guests spent 1.4 million tourism nights in commercial accommodation establishments (hotels, boarding houses, camping sites, bungalow complexes and community hostels) in Hungary, the country's Central Statistical Office reports. The number of guests and tourism nights both increased by 18% compared to January 2022. The number of nights spent by domestic guests […]
A new activity will be added to the responsibilities of the operator of Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt International Airport from the fall: the management company Budapest Airport will establish its own industrial fire service, a fire brigade of its own staff with a large headcount and one of the best-equipped airport fire bases in Europe. As […]
The traditional Jelly Festival is held again this year in the northeastern Hungarian city of Miskolc between March 3 and 5. The even was canceled in 2020 and 2021 to the new coronavirus epidemic. This year's jelly festival began with a spectacular parade and opening ceremony on Friday afternoon and will end on Sunday afternoon […]
The Austrian Cultural Forum Budapest (Österreichisches Kulturforum Budapest – ÖKF), one of 30 Cultural Forums worldwide by Austria's Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, looks back at a history of 45 years. The Director of the institute, Christian Autengruber tells Diplomacy&Trade about the tasks they performed and the services they provide in Hungary. Regarding […]
One of the largest corn processing companies in Hungary, Hungrana Ltd., has won two awards at the SAP Quality Awards for the countries of the Central and Eastern European region, the company has announced. In the competition for digitalization business development, where projects were submitted by 16 countries, Hungrana was awarded the Grand Winner and […]
The deficit of the external trade in goods was EUR 168 million in December, the adjusted volume of export increased by 0.6, while that of import decreased by 5.0%, compared to November, the Central Statistical Office reports. In December 2022, the volume of export was 3.5% higher, while that of import was 1,0% lower than […]
Hungary’s healthcare system has been in dire need of reform for decades but an all-encompassing solution is yet to be presented. The government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has launched several measures over recent years to address issues in healthcare but the latest steps have provoked significant resistance from doctors. Late last year, the government […]
The Oroszlány Power Plant, northwest of Budapest, will join the national electricity supply companies as a biomass-based power plant in the first half of 2024, the Veolia Group, which is restarting the plant that closed seven years ago, told MTI on Tuesday. According to the company, the Oroszlány power plant will be their fifth modernization […]
Last year, the membership fee income of voluntary pension funds amounted to HUF 120.116 billion, a 2.66% increase compared to the previous year, while the membership fee income of health funds increased by 19.73% to HUF 60.126 billion, Csaba Nagy, president of the National Association of Voluntary Funds (ÖPOSZ), told journalists in Budapest on Thursday. […]
Last September, the ‘For The Neighbors Of Budapest Airport Foundation’, with the support of Budapest Airport, launched the largest ever noise protection program which offers the most noise abatement solutions for residents, to a value of HUF 1.2 billion over three years. The aim of the program is to reduce noise burdens for people living […]
On average, Hungarians talk on their mobile phones 247 minutes a month, a figure that is expected to rise further in the future, according to the latest research by the National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH). The NMHH's communications directorate said in a statement that, according to data from the UN's telecommunications agency, the Netherlands […]
Budapest has won a grant of HUF one and half million (HUF 564 million) in the Climate Neutral and Smart Cities Mission, which will be used to establish the Budapest Climate Agency, the Mayor's Office announced on Wednesday. Budapest has been selected as one of the 53 cities from across 21 European Union and Horizon […]
In the 4th quarter of 2022 the volume of investments decreased by 6.3% compared to the same period of the previous year, and lessened by 5.5% compared to the previous quarter (seasonally adjusted), the Central Statistical Office reports. The investment volume has been shaped by a decrease in the budgetary, the households’ and also in […]
957 new infections were confirmed in the past week (867 recorded in the previous week), bringing the total number of identified infections to 2,195,926 since the start of the outbreak, the government's Coronavirus Press Center said on Wednesday. Six, mostly elderly, chronic patients died last week (down from seven in the previous week), bringing the […]
As Hungarian shoppers tighten their belts to stave off the impact of incessantly increasing prices, retailers are also feeling the pinch. Spar Hungary, one of the country’s leading supermarket chains, is taking small, adaptive steps to shield their business and help consumers. Hungary is experiencing the biggest increases in food costs in the European Union. […]
