Accessibility of Major Central and Eastern European Cities in Danube Cruise Tourism

Márk Miskolczi,Dávid Nagy,András Munkácsy,Melinda Jászberényi

doi:10.32725/det.2020.025

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International online peer-reviewed open-access journal offers a possibility for the international community of professionals working in the fields of regional and rural development or tourism to exchange their ideas and research results or practical achievements as it publishes results of both theoretical and applied research in these fields.

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Cruise tourism is a special form of travelling: it is attached to cruise ships, i.e. mixtures of a tourist attraction, a place for accommodation and a means of transport
Based on the analysis of the expert interviews, five general issues related to river cruise tourism were identified
Low water levels strongly influence the tourism experience, as tourists may be obliged to travel by bus and stay in hotels instead of cruise ships: “In periods of severe drought, passengers in Budapest or Vienna had to take a bus to Bratislava

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Cruise tourism is a special form of travelling: it is attached to cruise ships, i.e. mixtures of a tourist attraction, a place for accommodation and a means of transport. Danube cruise tourism is one of the emerging segments of leisure tourism, which primarily combines cultural and other alternative service elements (e.g. wine and gastronomy, arts and crafts, etc.) in its offer (Jászberényi & Miskolczi, 2020). The number of cruise tourists has been steadily increasing in the 2010s, and tour operators usually sell out packages for a season even before the previous has been started. M., Jászberényi, M., Munkácsy, A., Nagy, D. economic performance of the product, it seems to be ignored by tourism (and transport) research. River cruise tourism is highly overlooked and only some scholars – obviously from countries with large navigable rivers – are active in this field, even though the product can significantly increase the tourism revenue of a destination (Santos et al, 2019)

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