Tourism and Sustainable Development
Abstract
Transport plays a substantial role in determining competitiveness in tourism. The objective
of our study is to highlight the relationship between the accessibility [by road] of medicinal and
thermal spas and the tourist figures of the settlements examined, and we hope in this way to build on
our prior work in the broad, but highly important field of Spa Tourism in Hungary. Our approach is
based on an analysis of the data from two particular regions in terms of tourist flows – centrally
located West and peripheral South Transdanubia. Methods of correlation and rank correlation were
used which were based on statistical data from the Hungarian Statistical Office and from our own
questionnaire. The results clearly show the significance of accessibility to be unarguable on the basis
of our questionnaire, although the rank correlation alone proved the relationship. There is also a
degree of correspondence between accessibility and tourist figures, albeit with certain limitations. The
implications are not as yet totally clear since a number of specific factors are involved which require
further consideration, such as the relative prosperity of the regions, population density and the
adequacy of the road network. However, work has already started on this programme.
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