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Unprecedented scale in shopping tourism near the border
Slovakian buyers are storming stores of Hungary; unprecedented scale occurred in shopping tourism near the border, because the forint / euro exchange rate was at a historical peak, even 320 forints were paid for one euro – writes Új Szó, Slovakia's Hungarian daily newspaper on Monday.
According to the newspaper; beside this exchange rate food is 40 percent cheaper in Hungary and clothes cost half than in Slovakia. In Komárom long line of cars were queuing from Slovakia – reports MTI.
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