Österreich Werbung (ÖW), the Austrian National Tourist Office, is Austria's national tourism marketing organization supported by the country's Federal Ministry of Labor and Economics and the Austrian Chamber of Commerce. The figures available from 2021 (still a pandemic year) show that Austria welcomed 22.1 million guests (including 12.7 million international tourists), who spent 79.6 million […]
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 […]
Last year, 2.8 million guests spent 8.8 million guest nights at Lake Balaton, which means 38% more guests and 27% more guest nights compared to the previous year, the professional director of the Hungarian Tourism Agency (MTÜ), Szabolcs Juhász said at the meeting of the Balaton Development Council on Friday. The Balaton tourism region was […]
The performance of Hungarian hotels in December was again better than expected, despite the rising inflation and the Russian-Ukrainian war, the Association of Hungarian Hotels and Restaurants (MSZÉSZ) has announced. They recalled that in 2022, with the lifting of the epidemic restrictions, both domestic and international tourism started to grow dynamically, and this was reflected […]
The performance of Hungarian tourism in 2022 has exceeded all expectations; the sector is still on an upward trajectory, thus, the sector's performance this year may exceed the results achieved in the record year of 2019, Zoltán Guller, Chairman of the Board of the Hungarian Tourism Agency (MTÜ), said at a press conference in Budapest […]
Three municipalities in Bács-Kiskun County have won almost HUF one billion forints for three tourism developments from the European Union's Operational Program for Regional and Local Development (TOP) Plus. HUF 659 millions will be used to renovate the section of the cycle path between Deák Ferenc Street and the local spa in Kiskunmajsa. On the […]
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, […]
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) […]
The international certification body Green Destinations has signed a cooperation agreement with Innotime Hungary Ltd., making international sustainable tourism certification available in Hungary. A statement by Innotime Hungary points out that from this fall, they are the Hungarian representation of the Green Destinations international organization, which brings together hundreds of destinations in more than sixty […]
In September 2022, 917,000 guests spent 2.2 million tourism nights in commercial accommodation establishments (hotels, boarding houses, camping sites, bungalow complexes and community hostels) in Hungary. The number of guests rose by 3.8% and that of nights by 1.3% compared to the same period of the previous year, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) reports. Compared […]
The Cave Bath in Miskolctapolca, NE Hungary, will reopen this Friday thanks to the cooperation of local businesses, Tamás Bihall, president of the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BOKIK), told the state news agency MTI on Monday. The chamber president recalled that two weeks earlier, it had been decided in Miskolc that all […]
More than two million people travelled in the Balaton Shipping Company's (Bahart) 176th Balaton shipping season, which ended at the weekend, and the number of passengers on scheduled vessels and ferries has increased since last year, the state-owned company told the state news agency MTI on Monday. They noted that although this year's scheduled sailing […]
In August 2022, 1.4 million guests spent 3.9 million tourism nights in commercial accommodation establishments (hotels, boarding houses, camping sites, bungalow complexes and community hostels) in Hungary, with the number of guests up by 7.9% and the number of nights by 3.1% compared to the same period of the previous year, the Central Statistical Office […]
Hungarians travelled abroad 4.7 million times between April and June this year, 53% more than in the same period a year earlier, but the number of trips abroad fell by 24% compared to the second quarter of 2019, according to the quarterly publication of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH). The most popular destinations were […]
In July 2022, 1.3 million guests spent 3.8 million tourism nights in commercial accommodation establishments (hotels, boarding houses, camping sites, bungalow complexes and community hostels) in Hungary, with the number of guests up by 17% and the number of nights by 15% compared to the same period of the previous year, the Central Statistical Office […]
