Antal Rogán: tourism contributes to the strengthening of the country’s economy

By: Trademagazin Date: 2023. 10. 13. 10:07

The tourism sector, together with related sectors, accounts for 12-13 percent of Hungary’s gross national product in a year, and is an extremely important employer and contributes to the strengthening of the country’s economy, said the minister who heads the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office on Thursday in Békésszentandras, at the handover ceremony of the Bordůr Wellness Hotel.

Antal Rogán recalled that the past few years were not easy for tourism, 2019 was the last “year of peace”. After the pandemic, the domestic tourism sector had just restarted, when it lost many foreign guests, even from more distant countries, due to the war that started next door. Foreign tourists have already started to return, but now the sector will lose those Israelis who also visited Hungary in large numbers to rest, he said.

At the same time, the minister emphasized that the Hungarian tourism sector performed well in 2022 and 2023, it produced much better numbers in 2022 than in 2019, and according to the data so far this year is also better than 2019.

The fact that the program aimed at renovating the country’s rural accommodation was launched in 2018 proved to be careful planning, he pointed out.