Lóránt Dénes Dr. Dávid

Neumann University

This Special Issue on “Tourism's resilience in the context of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” focuses on linking the tourism sector with the different SDGs.

The authors have made an attempt in this case study, which is based on ‘subjective’ travel and existence experiences, for the indispensable separation of technical accessibility and fundamental or ‘deep’ accessibility—in both interpretation and application—and then to reconsider these concepts in their special philosophy-centred study, which is at...

Voluntourism is a unique tourism pattern which got considerable attention recently, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic and the intense search to promote and revive all the possible tourist patterns in order to support the tourism industry. This paper studied and analyzed voluntourism from a business perspective by developing Business Model Canv...

Tea culture tourism is a product of the combination of agricultural tourism and ecotourism. After the COVID-19 period, this product is more and more popular. Tourism performance is an important index for measuring the development level of tourist destinations, and research on the influencing factors of tourism performance is an important way to pro...

The relationship between the tourism economy and the ecological environment is under pressure, and balancing this relationship is crucial for promoting regional sustainability. In this study, the Yangtze River basin, the first largest river in Asia and third largest in the world, was selected as the focus area. The spatial and temporal characterist...

Most recently, there has been a growing interest in understanding the correlation concerning knowledge management and competitiveness more so in the area of tourism. Hence, this paper looks to provide a synthesis on theoretical nexus of knowledge management and tourism business enterprise competitiveness by giving an integrated overview of four mic...

Citation: Priatmoko, S.; Kabil, M.; Akaak, A.; Lakner, Z.; Gyuricza, C.; Dávid, L.D. Understanding the Complexity of Rural Tourism Business: Scholarly Perspective. Abstract: The aim of this paper is to identify and analyze the four core driving forces that shaped the complex picture of rural tourist businesses. These driving forces are marketabilit...

Health tourism is defined as a tourism product of strategic importance in Hungary and spa towns are among the most visited destinations in the country. The aims of the present research are to explore the characteristics of the tourism sector in the spa town of Hajdúszoboszló, and to identify the trends having shaped its tourism in the previous deca...

In the European Union, it is clear that as a result of the combination of several factors the current healthcare system is unable to handle the increasing number of patients. Primarily most of the facilities are not prepared for the effects of the increase in longevity or rapid shocks. Furthermore, in our rapidly aging society, the healthcare profe...

Green human resources management (GHRM) has proven its efficiency in many industries and services, including the hospitality and hostel industries. Additionally, applying green human resources management practices reflects an organization’s environmental awareness and responsibilities. Given that the adoption of these practices cannot be accomplish...

Manapság egyre több tanulmány jelenik meg az akadálymentesítés és a turizmus közötti sokrétű kapcsolatról, vagy legalábbis a turizmuskutatók már érdeklődést mutatnak az akadálymentesítés különböző aspektusainak vizsgálata iránt. Közismert ugyanakkor, hogy a szolgáltatóknak e tekintetben még mindig van hová fejlődniük. Szomorú, hogy az említett vizs...

The paper compared the performance of firms in agriculture and in tourism in two countryside areas of Hungary, assessing 2613 firms for 16 years (2004–2019). The data are from tax reports of all firms of the analysed areas. Agriculture and countryside tourism depend on environmental factors, thus they are more seriously affected by adverse environm...

The modern science of thinking in networks and the interpretation of human activities made in networks are almost as old as the science of tourism, or as this paper calls it, travel science. The basic background of the paper is provided by the accessibility scrutiny performed in travel science and frequently referred to in the article. The paper is...

With the growing number of academic studies being published each year, scientific knowledge is expanding at an unparalleled rate. Therefore, analyzing the scientific production in a particular research area to identify future research directions and streams has become inevitable. This study adopted a two-step methodological approach—bibliometric (2...

This study aims to assess and analyse the efficiency of the tourism centres in the Southern Red Sea region, Egypt to apply coastal tourism development through the blue economy perspective. According to this aim, the study used two efficiency methods: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Free Disposal Hull (FDH). A total of 29 tourism centres were se...

Since the use of mobile GIS-applications in the formation of tourist and local lore competencies of students affects the knowledge and professional competence of future teachers, it is very important to first determine the attitude of teachers and professors to the use of mobile GIS-applications and assess the level of use of mobile applications by...

The aim of the present research is to assess the impact of factors such as welfare, infrastructure, security, and the environment on inbound tourism as well as to develop its forecast. Six proxy indicators of the above-mentioned factors were selected as variables, namely, welfare (real GDP per capita, life expectancy, consumer price index), infrast...

The study examines the Summer Olympics from the point of view of sports policing and tourism safety. Held every four years, the Summer Olympics are the world’s biggest sporting events, posing a significant challenge for tourism and law enforcement professionals. Billions of people watch the Olympic events on television, and hundreds of thousands of...

This research aims to boost tourism development in natural protected areas through the classification of the tourism hiking trails based on biodiversity ecosystem services values. The Total Economic Value (TEV) approach was used as the main research method to estimate the monetary value of the various ecosystem resources in Abu Qubies Syrian protec...

Understanding the behavior of tourism industry in various countries as a source of knowledge would be able to assist in gaining a better understanding and insight for future business development. We also perform a comparative study to examine very different facets of business people’s behavior in numerous countries in order to arrive at a formula t...

This study aims to comprehend relations between environmental determinants and agritourism by example of the Almaty region of Kazakhstan. As a basis for the research of this specific content the representation about agrarian recreational-tourist complexes (ARTCs) was developed and applied (ARTCs are special territorial and intersectoral integrities...

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 main statistical method. The well-developed infrastruc...

It is a positive phenomenon that more and more studies are being published on the diverse relationship between accessibility and tourism nowadays. This indicates that now at least tourism researchers are showing an interest in the examination of the different aspects of accessibility. Nevertheless, it is a well-known fact that service providers sti...

This research aims to find out the phenomenon of webinar competition from the viewpoint of the audience. Covid-19 pandemic makes webinars a means for knowledge dissemination. Many events offered turned out to be a tight competition among organizers and caused a different response for the audience. Academics participants’ responses had never been kn...

Recently tourism appears to be an effective economic tool to enhance gender equality and women's empowerment. This study analyzed the gendered-oriented articles concerning the tourism sector in the MENA region. This study focused on the articles that used structured methods such as interviews, questionnaires, surveys, and observations. 203 articles...

The quality of the indoor microclimate in museums is a problem of great interest to the contemporary society, given that it is in close connection with the health and comfort of visitors and employees, as well as with the integrity of the exhibits. Taking into account the fact that museums are places that have a special role in the community’s life...

The Indonesian government is currently boosting its tourism by using the success of the island of Bali as a model, the project is called Ten New Balis. This article examines previous studies and statistical data to presents a deep analysis of macro-environmental factors of tourism in Indonesia related to Bali as a development model. The study is ba...

This research aims to examine the opportunities of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) and its use for the rural tourism businesses. The study used purposive random sampling of presence of tourist villages product in the Online Travel Agency (OTA) application in Indonesia. From the OTA, it can be seen the rural tourism destinations product...

As a survey by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (2019) confirms coffee is consumed in 83% of Hungarian households, thus our country can be considered to be one of the major coffee drinking nations. At the end of the 19th century and the turn of the twentieth Budapest with its internationally famous and unique coffee culture was known as the...

The study endeavors to find out the perceived impact of Responsible Tourism Practices (RTPs) on destination communities’ Quality of Life (QOL). Besides, the investigation tests the mediating role of community involvement in the relationship between RTPs and QOL. A well-designed questionnaire developed from the existing literature was distributed am...

Entrepreneurship is a significant economic process in regional economic development. This study aims to analyze the characteristics of the Egyptian entrepreneurial ecosystem by using the global entrepreneurship index (GEI) data from 2006–2017. This empirical study provides an in-depth insight into the Egyptian entrepreneurship ecosystem situation b...

Changes in tourists’ behavior in recent times have been considered a driving force for emphasizing the importance of unpopular tourism destinations as one of the key potentials in the tourism industry in any nation. On the road to reviving unpopular tourism destinations, this study aims to identify the potential tourism aspect and development of th...

The research aims to assess the extent of overtourism in Budapest. The analysis first introduces a system of criteria for a sustainable destination, highlighting the capacity network, institutional system, structural aspects, and architectural infrastructure load of a sustainable region. A survey of the relevant literature reveals the increasing sc...

This paper aims to analyze the scientific production of the blue economy and coastal tourism research fields to identify research topics and publication patterns. Accordingly, bibliometric analysis was selected as a quantitative meta-analysis literature review method. Scopus was the main database for extracting the scientific production in blue eco...

Community-based tourism (CBT) considers one sustainable form of tourism to enhance tourists’ and local communities’ relationships. By investigating and studying the previous scientific production of the CBT field in general and, in particular, rural CBT, the researchers found that the local communities’ roles in shaping this type of tourism have be...

Commuting, defined as daily traveling for employment purposes, has gradually grown in importance in the past decades in Eastern European countries. According to Eurostat, although the freedom of movement may have encouraged cross-border commuting in the EU, it accounted just for 0.9 % of the EU-28 workforce. Between the highest number of cross-bord...

This study aims to seek the lack of insight Google Local Guide into what constitutes a positive presence for the Caravella cafe through its reviewer. The data collected is in the form of opinions and reviews from consumers who have visited the Caravella café. The data collected were comments from 120 reviewers processed with NVivo version 10 for Wi...

Sustainable tourism as a concept, and responsible tourism as its successful implementation, represent two major challenges for researchers in different academic fields and for tourism stakeholders in destinations responsible for sustainable tourism planning, policies, actions, and outcomes. This paper provides a bibliometric inventory of research p...

From the point of view of successful tourism product development and destination management it is important to identify the travel motivations that determine the expectations of the experience and hence the satisfaction. The large-scale survey among domestic tourism participants reveals ideas, knowledge and motivations as determinants of tourism co...

The ecological footprint of Hungary is close to the European average and we expect further growth. The projects of the Széchenyi 2020 program and the Hungarian Multinational Oil and Gas Company (MOL) promote the development of the green economy provide significant subsidies. The depletion of petroleum-derived fuel and environmental concern has prom...

Despite most African countries having immense natural and human resources potential, the continent has mostly been lagging on matters of economic development. This scenario could primarily be attributed to weak intra-regional and inter-country trade given the poor connectivity, quality, and diversity in transportation services and infrastructure. I...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, many rural tourism destinations were closed. Optimism that the virus can be contained or partly by 2021 is making many tourist destinations around the world prepare to grab visitors. This study aims to determine the online appearance of tourist village in Hollókő (Hungary) and the tourist village of Tinalah (Indonesia)...

Achieving food security is crucial, and a primary development goal worldwide. However, there is a difficulty in finding reliable data on the topic, which raised a problem for policymakers and researchers as well. Therefore, the present study aimed to fill in this gap by examining the dynamics of regional food security. The main research objective w...

Language and quality education play an important role in enhancing the development of regions and economies. Education systems and language policies implemented by different countries depend upon their individual political, cultural, historic, and economic characteristics. However, it is important for each country to achieve a degree of harmony bet...

This paper aims to study non-travelers in order to try to understand why they are absent from tourism and what the causes are for their decision. Our research showed that the study of postmodern causes apart from classic ones holds unique potential in the research of sustainable tourism processes as well. The results of cross-tabulation and corresp...

Based on the investigation of neprilysin (NEP) regulation in a translational porcine model of chronic heart failure (HF), this study concluded: 1) that kidneys might play a crucial part in systemic NEP regulation based on 20 to 100 higher NEP content and/or activity compared with any other organ; 2) NEP seems to be downregulated under HF conditions...

According to the Eurostat database, the percentage of renewable energy sources in the energy mix of the EU is increasing year after year (www.europa.eu/eurostat). In 2018, the values reached 73% in neighboring Austria (48% in Croatia, 42% in Romania, 32% in Slovenia and 21% in Slovakia), Hungary now stands at 8%. Wind energy is the leader in the re...

Sustainability and Subjective Well-Being (SWB) are strongly interrelated domains. The way students view them and prioritize their dimensions should be factored into curricular developments in education for sustainability. Instruments developed to examine sustainability and SWB preferences typically use rating scale items to measure dimensions as se...

The modern food industry is among the key partners of today’s global tourism. As part of the tourism processes, tourists buy and consume local food in the local catering facilities. Furthermore, tourists are usually willing to try out gastronomy specialties during their travels. Food safety is important for tourists although it is not always part o...

In an increasingly competitive market for tourism service providers, it is possible to improve or preserve positions by providing a special, high-experience content assortment. Uniqueness should also be emphasized in order to increase the attractiveness of rural tourism in Hungary. From a professional point of view, the necessity of supplying basic...

On the base of samples taken from ash-sludge collector of Pavlodar Aluminum Plant we have created neural network for making forecasts of concentration distributions of different elements compounding production waste of the plant. For every analyzed element separate neural network was created. Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm was chosen for training. A...

Purpose This study has two aims. It aims to analyse three essential pre-conditions of an authentic sustainability curriculum (ASC). The theoretical analysis involves the definition of authenticity through the learning outcomes (LOs) framework called authentic minimum (AM). This paper also aims to gauge students’ views on economic growth, sustainab...

The Formula One race circuit is one of the most popular spectator sports events worldwide. The "speeding circus" was introduced in Hungary in 1986 and regime changes and governmental fluctuations notwithstanding, the event enjoys almost undisputed support among the respective political decision makers. Relying on the latest scholarly results and da...

Kazakhstan is an economically stable country in Central Asia, which recently began to pay close attention to the development of tourism industry. It is fact that, tourism is not a major component of country’s economy, as evidence, tourism industry GDP in Kazakhstan is $3.08 billion or 1.6 percent of total GDP. The combination of direct and indirect...