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Beneficial features of health tourism offers in Hungary

  • Hungary has excellent geographical features for the development of health tourism. Hungary is one of the richest countries of the world condsidering its thermal water and medicinal water resources. (Budai Z. é.n.).
  • Hungary is internationally famous for its traditions and establishments in treating certain medical-factors-based diseases and in patient rehabilitation. 
  • Hungary’s health care system, health care industry and the training of health care professionals are well known all over the world.
  • Health tourism services offered by Hungarian institutions internationally represent very good price-value ratio and are competitive in the European market.
  • In the last decade the capacity of health tourism establishments and the range of health tourism services have improved. The most notable change in this respect is the dynamism of the infrastuctural development of wellness tourism.
  • Seasonality does not play a significant role in the area of health tourism, although the utilization of the capacity of wellness hotel rooms is not higher than average. (Kátay Á. 2010).
  • The average length of stay – as opposed to 3-5 days, typical in traditional tourism – is 10+ days in health tourism. (Szabóné Iványi E. 2001). In the year 2010 it was an average of 6 days in lakeside resorts. (Budai Z. é.n.).
  • Specific expenditure – due to the use of costly medical services - was generally by 30-35%  higher than in other areas of tourism. (Szabóné Iványi E. 2001).
  • Health tourism has a beneficial effect on the national economy: in medical and thermal tourism every 100 forints spent by guests increases income with another 75 forints. (multiplication effect).
  • Every 100 new jobs in medical and thermal tourism will create another 214 new jobs in the national economy (multiplication effect)  (Szabóné Iványi E. 2001).
  • A breakthrough of great significance can be seen in tourism, based on medical services. It produces more income than our traditional health tourism, which is based on medicinal waters and recreation. (Kincses és mtsai 2009).