Gábor Dudás

Gábor Dudás

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Introduction
Gábor Dudás is currently an independent researcher who worked at the Institute for Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Gábor does research in Sharing Economy, Geography and Geoinformatics (GIS). His current project is ' Geographical examination of peer-to-peer accommodations in Hungary.'
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January 2014 - present
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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  • Fellow

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Publications (33)
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COVID-19 pandemic starting at the end of 2019, hit hard tourism and hospitality industries throughout the world. As a part of the processes, the most popular P2P accommodation service, the Airbnb also faced a rapid drop in bookings. This study explores and compares the effects of the first wave of the pandemic on the Airbnb markets of 15 cities. Th...
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Airbnb has grown very rapidly over the last decade and became a valid and important competitor of traditional accommodation providers. This growing importance calls for better understanding of the motivational factors of tourists’ and identifying why they choose Airbnb instead of other types of accommodations. Therefore, the purpose of the paper wa...
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The aim of the paper was to investigate the impact of different accommodation attributes on Airbnb listing prices in a touristic area. The study applied hedonic price modeling utilizing a sample of 2417 Airbnb accommodation rental offers in the Lake Balaton Touristic Region in Hungary. Our results revealed that property-related attributes significa...
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In the last decade, the development of information technologies and the widespread adoption of mobile technologies and Web 2.0 have facilitated the rise of a new socioeconomic system referred to as the sharing economy and the emergence of P2P sharing platforms. One of the most affected sectors by the sharing economy is the tourism and hospitality i...
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The aim of the paper was to investigate the impact of different accommodation attributes on Airbnb listing prices in a touristic area. The study applied hedonic price modeling utilizing a sample of 2417 Airbnb accommodation rental offers in the Lake Balaton Touristic Region in Hungary. Our results revealed that property-related attributes significa...
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Az elmúlt évtizedben a peer-to-peer elven működő online szállásmegosztó platformok (pl. Airbnb, HomeAway stb.) a turizmus egyik legfontosabb szereplőjévé váltak komoly versenytársat teremtve a hagyományos szállásadó szektornak. Ennek következtében az online szállásmegosztó platformokon hirdetett szállások árképzésének megértése mind gyakorlati, min...
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The aim of the paper was to investigate the impact of different accommodation attributes on Airbnb listing prices in a touristic area. The study applied hedonic price modeling utilizing a sample of 2417 Airbnb accommodation rental offers in the Lake Balaton Touristic Region in Hungary. Our results revealed that property-related attributes significa...
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Bevezetés Napjainkban emberek tízezrei döntenek úgy, hogy nem a hagyományos szállásadásban száll-nak meg, hanem ismeretlenek lakóhelyét veszik igénybe, amit P2P elven működő online meg-osztó platformokon (pl. Airbnb, Couchsurfing, HomeAway) találnak. Ez a jelenség egy sokkal nagyobb gazdasági-technológia jelenség az ún. sharing economy vagy közössé...
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These days thousands of people decide to stay in homes of unknown people rather than using traditional accommodation facilities. They choose their accommodation on online sharing platforms operating on peer-to-peer (P2P) principle (e.g.: Airbnb, Couchsurfing, HomeAway). This trend is part of a much greater economic and technological phenomenon, kno...
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Naponta emberek tízezrei döntenek úgy, hogy nem a hagyományos, hanem a peer-to-peer (P2P) elven működő online szállásmegosztó platformokon – ilyen például az Airbnb – ismeretlenek által meghirdetett szálláshelyeken szállnak meg. Ez a folyamat napjainkban még döntően nagyvárosi jelenség, azonban egyre inkább teret nyer a jelentős turisztikai potenci...
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One of the major topics in electoral geography is the examination of the delimitation of constituencies and the related spatial processes. During the redistricting process, several criteria have to be met, of which the compactness of a given district is one of the determining factors. Shape analysis, and in particular, compactness studies provide t...
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Napjainkban egyre nagyobb teret hódít a közösségi gazdaság (sharing economy), amely az internet és az infokommunikációs technológiák által kínált lehetőségek révén megváltoztatja a fogyasztási szokásokat, és a "normál" piaci logikától eltérő működésének köszönhetően számos területen hat a fogyasztási szerkezetre, az árakra, és egyre jelentősebb kih...
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Due to the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs), the so-called sharing economy spread rapidly to new sectors. The principle of sharing economy is that users can share their idle resources with each other. One of the most well-known manifestation of sharing economy is Airbnb, which is an online platform for short-term ren...
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Az infokommunikációs technológiák világgazdaságra gyakorolt hatásának egyik megnyilvánulása a megosztáson alapuló, azaz a közösségi gazdaság (sharing economy) kialakulása és térnyerése. Ennek egyik jelentős piaci szereplője az Airbnb, egy olyan szállásmegosztó oldal, ami hétköznapi emberek számára is lehetővé teszi, hogy megosszák egymással kihaszn...
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The aim of our study is to demonstrate the applicability of shape analysis in social geographic research based on compactness indicators. In the research we found that the most appropriate administrative level considering compactness is the county level and the most compact region is Southern Transdanubia. Our results also highlighted that the most...
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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 methods to visualise the spatiality of Airbnb in Budapest...
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E-health plays an increasingly important role in healthcare since it can improve the access to health information. In this article, we are seeking to answer the following questions with respect to online health services: To what extent can they reduce the workload of healthcare professionals in the healthcare system? What kind of health benefits ca...
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In recent years, the so-called sharing economy has spread all over the world and, through the proliferation of online peer-to-peer platforms, provides a marketplace that matches sellers who want to sell/share their underutilised assets with buyers who need them. One of the well-known and heavily debated manifestations of the sharing economy is an a...
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The processes of economic globalization have transformed socioeconomic spatial functioning of the territories. These trends caused international competition between countries, regions, and settlements. According to this, nowadays, the examination of competitiveness has become an important research question in economic geography. The aim of our stud...
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Recent trends in transport and communication infrastructures have had a profound impact on the tourism industry. Despite the growing number and importance of online travel agencies and travel metasearch sites tourism literature addressing this issue is very scarce. Th is paper aims to examine the temporal changes of return airfares on online travel...
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Due to the development of ICT technologies the so-called sharing economy has spread all over the world, gaining significant market share in certain sectors. One of the well-known and debated manifestations of sharing economy is Airbnb, which is an online platform for accommodation provision. Airbnb has wide-spreading effects on rental and real esta...
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The optimistic vision of a balanced socio-spatial development trajectory of the European economic space has been constantly challenged by the rise of new dimensions of socio-spatial inequalities and, recently, by the polarising effects of the global economic crisis. Inequalities emerged not only as income differentials but also as various forms of...
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This study reports the findings of a research that compared the lowest airfares of full-service network carriers and low-cost airlines and mapped the cost distance between Budapest and European cities. The study investigated return air tickets for three time periods in 48 European cities for travellers who originated from Budapest. The study was ba...
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A 20. század második felétől a közlekedési és infokommunikációs technológiák fejlődése jelentős mértékben átalakította az emberek mobilitásának, az áruk szállításának és az információ áramlásának földrajzi és időbeli korlátait, elősegítve ezzel a városok térkapcsolatainak egyre komplexebbé válását. Kutatásunkban egyrészt a diszkont és a hagyományos...
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A Vidékfejlesztési Minisztérium tanyapályázatának keretében, 2013-ban nagy léptékű külterületi felmérés elkészítésére nyílt lehetőség, melynek során csaknem teljes adatfelvételt készíthettünk Békés megye külterületi népességéről és épületeiről. Bár az adatlapok tematikája rögzített volt, a pótlólagos kérdések, illetve a tanyasi interjúk alapján oly...
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This paper examines the temporal changes of return airfares on online travel agency (OTA) and travel metasearch websites from Budapest to three short-haul destinations (London, Paris, Barcelona) for fixed departure dates in high and shoulder season. During the study, we created a database containing more than 31 000 ticket prices over a 182 day per...
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Recent trends in transport and communication infrastructures have had a profound impact on the spatial organization of the world city network, which have long been of interest to geographers. Considering the former issue, our study is based on previous works on air transport geography and world city network studies. We introduce a new method to map...
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A globalizációs folyamatok, a közlekedési és kommunikációs infrastruktúrák fejlődése jelentős mértékben átalakította az emberek mobilitásának, az áruk szállításának és az információ áramlásának földrajzi és időbeli korlátait, elősegítve ezzel a világvárosok gazdasági kapcsolatainak egyre szorosabbá válását. Habár a technológiai innovációk következt...
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The liberalization of the European air opened the strictly regulated European market, and contributed to the appearance and quick spread of the Low-Cost Carriers (LCCs). At the beginning of the 21st century the low cost traffic absolutely concentrated on the Western European market but after the enlargement of the European Union LCCs started their...
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Az európai légtér liberalizációja felszabadította a korábban igen szabályozott légi közlekedési piacot, és új működési keretet hozott létre az Európai Közösség területén üzemelő légitársaságoknak. Az új helyzetet kihasználva új piaci szereplők is megjelentek Európa égboltján a diszkont légitársaságok formájában, melyek gyorsan számottevő piaci rész...

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