A turizmus-vendéglátás gazdasági és pénzügyi vetületei Magyarországon és az európai országokban

Absztrakt

This treatise presents some aspects of the economic-financial role of tourism in Hungary and in the EU countries, highlighting its part acted in the development of balances of payments account. The international economic crisis has affected every country of Europe, it has influenced the performance of tourism-catering as well therefore the statistical figures serve as a database of the research from the pre-crisis period till the present days. We point to the changing of the revenue and expenditure sides of the current account, the role of EUR/HUF exchange rate fluctuation in Hungary which mostly affects the tourism-catering. The balance of tourism continuously increased during the researched years: it was EUR 1918 million in 2008 and EUR 2383 million in 2013 which can be considered an almost 20% growth. While the number of the total overnight stays has increased only since 2010, the average room rates have hardly changed, the tourists have spent more in Hungary, 11 thousand fewer people have worked in the sector since 2008.