The creative industry is a set of autonomous sectors, whose activities are all geared towards the production of intellectual products and cultural values based on human creativity, also inducing an economic process. It forms a bridge between art, culture, business, and technology.
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Analysis of Budapest as a Film Tourism Destination
Árpád Ferenc Papp-Váry (John von Neumann University, Kecskemét, Hungary) and Tímea Zsófia Tóth (Alexandre Lamfalussy Faculty of Economics, University of Sopron, Hungary)
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|Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8262-6.ch014
Abstract
The Hungarian film industry has undergone a huge change recently, becoming a pull sector and repositioning the country in Europe. The economic performance of Budapest's film industry is growing steadily, which has also been facilitated by the strategic steps of recent years, making the capital a key player on the film map of Europe. In the case of Budapest, the diversity of the city is clearly outlined, as it primarily serves as a backdrop for various film productions. Using primary and secondary sources, the research focuses on the supply elements of film tourism in Budapest and the changes in the economic environment affecting the film industry. In the analysis, different types of film tourism are explored through interviews with the actors of film tourism. The research seeks to highlight factors that can boost film tourism in Budapest and make the city even more prominent on the film map of Europe.