A periférikus területek turizmusa Magyarországon - a tematikus utak mint lehetőségek

Abstract

The peripheral border regions are economically disadvantaged due to their geographic positions; however, their key position is a good opportunity for establishing international cooperation in economy or tourism (thematic routes).Thematic ways are explicitly capable for cross border co-operationS, not surprisingly in the past years more and more programs were realised using European founds.Tourism can be used as indirect tool to improve economic performance, if it is paired with externally founded cross border cooperation, a long-term and sustainable development is possible.The aim of the paper is to summarise economic or touristic features of peripheral, mainly border regions, and to reveal possible economic growth inventiveness of thematic routes. The last part of the paper presents two case studies with distinctive thematic routes, which are new phenomenon in Hungarian tourism.