<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>When surveying the motivation side of travel and tourism, we can state that tourists consider in their travel decisions, certain landscape preferences – to a certain extent. It also seems to be evident, however, that the objective evaluation of a landscape is a hard task for researchers for numerous reasons. In recent decades, several attempts have been made to create such methods but it seems that, in Hungary at least, this topic is rather neglected. The aim of this study is to provide an evaluation method for the landscape preferences of passengers travelling on Hungarian railway lines, demonstrating how the landscape around the railways could become an attraction during the travel. We survey what types of landscape appearance would be needed in order to generate travel decisions for tourists and also how the travel experience itself could become a tourism product.</p></abstract>

When surveying the motivation side of travel and tourism, we can state that tourists consider in their travel decisions, certain landscape preferences – to a certain extent. It also seems to be evident, however, that the objective evaluation of a landscape is a hard task for researchers for numerous reasons. In recent decades, several attempts have been made to create such methods but it seems that, in Hungary at least, this topic is rather neglected. The aim of this study is to provide an evaluation method for the landscape preferences of passengers travelling on Hungarian railway lines, demonstrating how the landscape around the railways could become an attraction during the travel. We survey what types of landscape appearance would be needed in order to generate travel decisions for tourists and also how the travel experience itself could become a tourism product.

The role of landscape preferences in the travel decisions of railway passengers: Evidence from Hungary

Institute of Marketing and Tourism, Faculty of Business and Economics

Moravian Geographical Reports

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When surveying the motivation side of travel and tourism, we can state that tourists consider in their travel decisions, certain landscape preferences – to a...

The role of landscape preferences in the travel decisions of railway passengers: Evidence from Hungary

Published Online: Jan 25, 2019

Page range: 298 - 309

Received: Jul 25, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2018-0024

Keywords
landscape preferences, railway transport, evaluation method, railway passengers, travel decisions, Hungary

© 2018 Bence Somogyi et al., published by Sciendo

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

The role of landscape preferences in the travel decisions of railway passengers: Evidence from Hungary

Published Online: Jan 25, 2019

Page range: 298 - 309

Received: Jul 25, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2018-0024

Keywordslandscape preferences, railway transport, evaluation method, railway passengers, travel decisions, Hungary

© 2018 Bence Somogyi et al., published by Sciendo

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

Keywords
landscape preferences, railway transport, evaluation method, railway passengers, travel decisions, Hungary