IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/avo/emipdu/v26y2017i2p813-827.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Tourism Development And Cultural Heritage: The Stakeholders’ Opinion On The Role Of The Restored Esterházy Palace In Western Hungary

Author

Listed:
  • Laszlo Kulcsar

    (University of West Hungary)

  • Laszlo A. Bodrogai

    (Kaposvár University, Hungary)

Abstract

The paper shows how the newly restored palace representing part of the Hungarian cultural heritage (the third biggest baroque palace in Europe, and the biggest one in Hungary: see Figure 1) changes the tourism economy of a micro-region (Lake Fertő area , see Figure 2). The research is based on sociological surveys conducted in 2016 with the mayor and representatives of municipalities, tourism and other service managers of the region. According to the stakeholders' opinion the tourism economy has to change in many ways in the region. The Esterházy Palace could be the 'flagship' of the micro-region's tourism. The SWOT analysis done by stakeholders shows that changes are needed in infrastructure and in the programs offered mainly because of the changing social structure of the visitors in the micro-region. The tourism entrepreneurs and the representatives of local governments played a significant role in the tourism of the micro-region, and they tackled the new challenges posed by the new initiatives in different ways according to their interests and position. The Esterházy Palace is in a difficult situation to involve its touristic activity in a very diverse micro-region.

Suggested Citation

  • Laszlo Kulcsar & Laszlo A. Bodrogai, 2017. "Tourism Development And Cultural Heritage: The Stakeholders’ Opinion On The Role Of The Restored Esterházy Palace In Western Hungary," Economic Thought and Practice, Department of Economics and Business, University of Dubrovnik, vol. 26(2), pages 813-827, december.
  • Handle: RePEc:avo:emipdu:v:26:y:2017:i:2:p:813-827
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/282095
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Stuart Mcminn, 1997. "The challenge of sustainable tourism," Environment Systems and Decisions, Springer, vol. 17(2), pages 135-141, June.
    2. Silvia Caserta & Antonio Russo, 2002. "More Means Worse: Asymmetric Information, Spatial Displacement and Sustainable Heritage Tourism," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer;The Association for Cultural Economics International, vol. 26(4), pages 245-260, November.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Marion Hercock, 1999. "The impacts of recreation and tourism in the remote North Kimberly region of Western Australia," Environment Systems and Decisions, Springer, vol. 19(3), pages 259-275, September.
    2. Calogero Guccio & Domenico Lisi & Marco Martorana & Anna Mignosa, 2017. "On the role of cultural participation in tourism destination performance: an assessment using robust conditional efficiency approach," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer;The Association for Cultural Economics International, vol. 41(2), pages 129-154, May.
    3. Douglas S. Noonan & Ilde Rizzo, 2017. "Economics of cultural tourism: issues and perspectives," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer;The Association for Cultural Economics International, vol. 41(2), pages 95-107, May.
    4. Pier Luigi Sacco & Guido Ferilli & Giorgio Tavano Blessi & Massimiliano Nuccio, 2013. "Culture as an Engine of Local Development Processes: System-Wide Cultural Districts II: Prototype Cases," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 44(4), pages 571-588, December.
    5. Virginia Milone & Simone Pizzi, 2019. "Managing the Complexity through New Forms of Financial Reporting: A Multiple Case Study on Italian Public Museums," Administrative Sciences, MDPI, vol. 9(4), pages 1-14, December.
    6. Cuccia, Tiziana & Rizzo, Ilde, 2011. "Tourism seasonality in cultural destinations: Empirical evidence from Sicily," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 32(3), pages 589-595.
    7. Angelo Antoci & Paolo Russu & Pier Luigi Sacco & Giorgio Tavano Blessi, 2022. "Preying on beauty? The complex social dynamics of overtourism," Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, Springer;Society for Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, vol. 17(1), pages 379-400, January.
    8. Malgorzata Ogonowska & Dominique Torre, 2013. "Residents' Influence on the Adoption of Environmental Norms in Tourism," GREDEG Working Papers 2013-17, Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France.
    9. Robert Jeyakumar Nathan & Vijay Victor & Melanie Tan & Maria Fekete-Farkas, 0. "Tourists’ use of Airbnb app for visiting a historical city," Information Technology & Tourism, Springer, vol. 0, pages 1-26.
    10. Yang, Chunyu & Huang, Jue & Lin, Zhibin & Zhang, Danxia & Zhu, Ying & Xu, Xinghua & Chen, Mei, 2018. "Evaluating the symbiosis status of tourist towns: The case of Guizhou Province, China," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 72(C), pages 109-125.
    11. Segre Giovanna & Russo Antonio Paolo, 2005. "Collective property rights for glass manufacturing in Murano: Where culture makes or breaks local economic development," EBLA Working Papers 200505, University of Turin.
    12. C. Y. Jim, 2000. "Environmental changes associated with mass urban tourism and nature tourism development in Hong Kong," Environment Systems and Decisions, Springer, vol. 20(3), pages 233-247, September.
    13. Adrian-Liviu Scutariu & Carmen Nastase & Mihai Popescu, 2016. "Perspectives of Sustainable Development of Tourism in the North-East Region of Romania," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(1), pages 1-14, December.
    14. Yong Gu & Jie Du & Ya Tang & Xue Qiao & Carla Bossard & Guiping Deng, 2013. "Challenges for sustainable tourism at the Jiuzhaigou World Natural Heritage site in western China," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 37(2), pages 103-112, May.
    15. Tiziana Cuccia & Roberto Cellini, 2007. "Is cultural heritage really important for tourists? A contingent rating study," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(2), pages 261-271.
    16. Ana Sampaio, 2012. "Wine Tourism and Visitors' Perceptions: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach," Tourism Economics, , vol. 18(3), pages 533-553, June.
    17. Ružić Pavlo & Demonja Damir, 2015. "Contribution to the Research of Sustainable Tourism Development Concept in the Example of Istria (Croatia)," Scientific Annals of Economics and Business, Sciendo, vol. 62(2), pages 191-207, July.
    18. Juan Nicolau, 2010. "Culture-sensitive tourists are more price insensitive," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer;The Association for Cultural Economics International, vol. 34(3), pages 181-195, August.
    19. Stauvermann, Peter Josef & Kumar, Ronald Ravinesh, 2017. "Productivity growth and income in the tourism sector: Role of tourism demand and human capital investment," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 426-433.
    20. Robert Jeyakumar Nathan & Vijay Victor & Melanie Tan & Maria Fekete-Farkas, 2020. "Tourists’ use of Airbnb app for visiting a historical city," Information Technology & Tourism, Springer, vol. 22(2), pages 217-242, June.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    tourism development; micro-region; cultural heritage; entrepreneurship;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
    • Z32 - Other Special Topics - - Tourism Economics - - - Tourism and Development
    • Z10 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - General
    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:avo:emipdu:v:26:y:2017:i:2:p:813-827. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Nebojsa Stojcic (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/oedubhr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.