Possibilities of tourism deriving from the Vásárhelyi Project

Dávid, Lóránt

In 2003 the Government of the Hungarian Republic adopted a decree on the development of the Vásárhelyi Project and on the conception of increasing flood safety in the valley of the Tisza river. In its framework, tenders were invited for compiling the “Tourist conception, strategic programme, and operative programme of the flood plain of the Tisza river and the settlements attached to it (from Kisköre village to the southern frontier)” coordinated by the Research and Development Centre of the Northern Hungarian Region located in the Charles Robert College, the former Saint Stephen University’s College Faculty of Farming and Agriculture. The document thus prepared under the above title outlines the following expectations. Diversified tourism has to be created, which shall rest upon local resources but not extremely exhaust them; satisfy the needs of both domestic and foreign tourists; and take not only natural but also social, economic, and cultural values into consideration, in a way of improving the living conditions of local population and creating new workplaces.

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