Health tourism in Hungary holds major opportunities. When analysing medical and wellness accommodation data, it can be stated that the Hungarian population is keenly interested in health-related tourism services. From the aspect of further development, health tourism based on medical services...

A tanulmány a magyarországi és az osztrák wellness turizmus összehasonlító elemzésére vállalkozik elsősorban a különleges wellness profilokkal rendelkező szállodák bemutatásán keresztül. A téma aktualitását elsősorban a fogyasztói szokásokban bekövetkezett változások...

A health conscious person might contribute to the preservation of her health and to the prevention of illnesses by her lifestyle, health conscious nutrition and regular exercise. Wellness helps to reach these goals with its complex services aimed at both the improvement of one’s physical...

This paper examines the influence of public greenspace on the life satisfaction of residents of Australia’s capital cities. A positive relationship is found between the percentage of public greenspace in a resident’s local area and their self-reported life satisfaction. On average, it is...

The paper looks first at the geographical conditions, specifically the economic, socio-cultural, demographic, and environmental, including local conditions as the vital factor underlying the course of transformation in mountainous rural areas. Next, the paper considers the results of the case...

The paper examines factors influencing migration to rural counties in Poland's underdeveloped regions using county data level and linear regression equation with exponential heteroscedastic errors. Quality of life factors, including the availability of various utility services positively...

The paper presents the approach to the analysis of spatial relationships between the town and surrounding rural areas. The main objective was to compare the competitiveness and living conditions of the areas located in the surroundings of towns with different number of inhabitants and situated...

A vidékfejlesztési programok működésének szerény eredménye, hogy az elmúlt tíz évben magyarországi alkalmazásuk hozzájárult a vidéki térségekből történő elvándorlás mérséklődéséhez. A vidékfejlesztési támogatások a vidéki gazdaság, a környezet és a...

living standard, quality of life, liveability, North-East Hungary, regional differences, questionnaire survey

The research starts from the necessity to create specific tools for evaluating the impacts of rural development policies on fragile areas. The objective of this study is to exploit a synthetic measure of marginality, obtained through a specific tool set by IRES Piemonte (Institute of Socio...