Present research is inspired to study the conceptions and misconceptions of hostels in eight different countries (Spain, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Hungary, Venezuela, China, Australia). The outcome of the research reports that the participants in the United States, United Kingdom,...

Over the last few decades corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an important issue. Increasing pressure from the stakeholders has forced tourism companies to adopt different environmental and social practices into their operation beyond their economic interests and legal requirements, on ...

The drivers of organizational adoption of automation were explored based on semi-structured interviews conducted with 12 founders/managers of the first fully automated/robotized hotels and restaurants, located in Japan, Hungary, UK and the USA, representing global pioneers of automation in the...

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...

Continuous changes in the market and macroeconomic factors have made a significant effect on the tourism sector in Hungary. A heavily growing number of hotels could be observed in the past decade. The main question about the hotels built with high investment costs was their expected time of return. ...

Scholars argued for the need of better urban planning procedures in post-socialist Prague in the 1990s. But a society liberated from an oppressive political system where five-year plans defined every aspect of life did not believe in the beneficial power of regulations. Prague just started to...

The aim of the study is to analyse the various infrastructural developments of the tourism sector in Northern Hungary. The study examines the innovation potential and it's obstacles of hotels in the region. The research is based on a survey of hotel managers, using Kruskal - Wallis tests as the...

The aim of the paper is to reveal how the proliferation of Airbnb is shaping hotel room and short-term accommodation rates in Budapest, which areas are most affected and whether there is any spatial concentration. We performed a manually made internet data query and applied GIS-based mapping...

In today's globalized world we hear more and more about sustainable development, ethical corporate governance, ecological footprint and similar concepts that are inspiring us to behave and operate responsibly from individuals to large enterprises. Corporate social responsibility is an important...

Purpose - Nowadays human resources have become a key asset in the economy, which also significantly affects the competitiveness of countries. The migration of labour from Hungary is still a continuous process, and it is most intense in the tourism sector with high demand for labour, and so the...