<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This study aims to analyse the possibilities and the potential for the establishment of beer tourism, one of the most recently valorised tourism products of global gastro tourism, and more importantly the creation and professional criteria of beer routes in Hungary. With a thorough investigation of the theoretical background of beer tourism and beer trails the authors try to collect those spatial perspectives which confirm our idea that Hungary is possessing adequate resources for the initiation of this new tourism product. We experienced that this area of tourism geography has not yet been researched thoroughly in the country, for which we make an attempt in this paper, using geographical and GIS methods, basically relying on the beer routes of Bavaria, Germany as good practices.</p></abstract>

This study aims to analyse the possibilities and the potential for the establishment of beer tourism, one of the most recently valorised tourism products of global gastro tourism, and more importantly the creation and professional criteria of beer routes in Hungary. With a thorough investigation of the theoretical background of beer tourism and beer trails the authors try to collect those spatial perspectives which confirm our idea that Hungary is possessing adequate resources for the initiation of this new tourism product. We experienced that this area of tourism geography has not yet been researched thoroughly in the country, for which we make an attempt in this paper, using geographical and GIS methods, basically relying on the beer routes of Bavaria, Germany as good practices.

Possibilities for the Creation of Beer Routes in Hungary: A Methodological and Practical Perspective

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This study aims to analyse the possibilities and the potential for the establishment of beer tourism, one of the most recently valorised tourism products of...

Possibilities for the Creation of Beer Routes in Hungary: A Methodological and Practical Perspective

Article Category: Research Articles

Published Online: Oct 18, 2016

Page range: 250 - 262

Received: May 30, 2016

Accepted: Sep 07, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/euco-2016-0018

Keywords
beer tourism, beer route, craft beer, thematic routes, experience brewery, Hungary, countryside

© 2016 János Csapó et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Possibilities for the Creation of Beer Routes in Hungary: A Methodological and Practical Perspective

Article Category: Research Articles

Published Online: Oct 18, 2016

Page range: 250 - 262

Received: May 30, 2016

Accepted: Sep 07, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/euco-2016-0018

Keywordsbeer tourism, beer route, craft beer, thematic routes, experience brewery, Hungary, countryside

© 2016 János Csapó et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
beer tourism, beer route, craft beer, thematic routes, experience brewery, Hungary, countryside