updated: 12.09.2024
Supervisor: Dr. Eszter Benke
Specialized themes:
· An investigation of workplace performance appraisal on the engagement and motivation of tourism workers
· Examining the use of objective and subjective measures/measurement tools in the performance evaluation of the tourism workforce
· An exploratory investigation of the benefits and challenges of using 360-degree feedback systems in the performance appraisal of tourism sector workers
Specialized themes:
· An investigation of how tourism service providers use business communication tools to analyze and interpret online reviews for operational insights
· An analysis of best practices in business communication employed by top-rated tourism businesses in addressing negative reviews
· An investigation of employee training focused on business communication to help staff in the tourism industry better manage and respond to online feedback
Specialized themes:
· Chatbots and online customer service: an analysis of the role of AI-driven chatbots in enhancing B2C tourism experience
· AI-powered translation in tourism: an exploration of the influence of artificial intelligence-enhanced language tools on enhancing cultural exchanges for travellers
· AI in tourism: an investigation of ethical implications of cultural misrepresentations and biases
Supervisor: Kitti Boros
Specialized themes:
· Current trends and future priorities in business event management
· The role of MICE tourism in destination marketing
Supervisor: Dr. Judit Éva Gajzágó
· film industry, etc.) and related products and services.
· The link between e-sports and tourism
· The link between e-sports events and tourism
· Links between creative and cultural industries and national image
Supervisor: Dr. Alexandra Fodor
Specialized themes:
· Niche tourism in Hungary / Europe
Specialized themes:
· virtual vs in person guiding
· thematic tour guiding in Hungary
· the impact of technology on tour guiding
Specialized themes:
· (Educational) tourism for Children
Supervisor: Dr. Klaudia Katalin Formádi
Specialized themes:
- Consumer behaviour research in tourism
- Consumer behaviour in destinations
Specialized themes:
· Sustaniability intitiatives in Tourism esp. in Festivals
· Social impacts of tourism
Specialized themes:
· tourism in a social sciences / tourism social impact analysis,
· consumer behaviour researches (leisure consumption)
· labour market and employment in tourism
· tourism and product development
Supervisor: Dr. Edina Kovács
· aspects of well-being and tourism
· intersection of tourism and cultural anthropolgy
· voluntourism and responsibel traveller (international volunteering as a tourist experience, the impact of volunteer work on the host area and the traveler
· applying the results of behavioral economics research in tourism
· generational differences in tourism consumer behaviour
· issues of societal ageing and tourism - inculding the elderly in tourism
Supervisor: dr. Miklós Kovács
Specialized themes:
- Strategic planning and tourism development strategies on national level
- Tourism planning
- Spatial planning and development
- Spatial planning and tourism
- Tourism in the regional development strategies
- Regional tourism policies
- Product development in tourism
- Project development and project management in tourism
- Tenders in tourism development
- Tourism marketing strategies on national level
- Tourism marketing plans
- Branding in tourism
- Nation and country brands and tourism
- Destination and city marketing
Supervisor: István Talabos
Specialized themes:
- New travel product
- New activity
- Analysis of two T/As
- Regional development topic
- Information technology related meeting, conference, air travel etc.
Supervisor: Dr. Melanie Smith
Specialized themes:
- cultural attractions, heritage management, arts tourism
Specialized themes:
- wellness, spa management, thermal baths
Specialized themes:
- cultural and creative cities, smart cities, sustainable cities, livable cities
Supervisor: Éva Schultz
Specialized themes:
- Cultural tourism of a destination
- Developing cultural tourism products
- Trends of cultural tourism
- Impacts of cultural differences between tourists and local residents in a destination
- Intercultural communication in hotel industry
Supervisor: Ágnes Weninger
- Sustainability,
- Tourism Marketing,
- F&B Marketing,
- Tourism Consumer Behaviour,
- Entrepreneurship,
- Gastronomy Tourism
Supervisor: Tamás Fábián
Specialized themes:
- Development perspectives of health tourism: spa tourism or wellness tourism?
- Further opportunities in dental tourism (New markets, new segments or further development of existing ones, etc.)
- Analysis of the newly established Ensana Hotels (formerly Danubius) spa hotel chain, opportunities, etc.
- The role of insurance companies in health tourism. (Current insurance, domestic, foreign, EU, etc. opportunities, problems
Supervisor: Sára Hegedüs
Specialized themes:
· Pro-environmental consumer behaviour in tourism
· Sustainable tourism services and providers
Supervisor: dr. Árpád Karsai
Specialized themes:
- World heritage sites values and marketing of the site sinscripted ont he intellectual property list of UNESCO in Hungary.
- Destination branding in the Hungarian tourism
- Tourism development challenges and the National Tourism Strategy 2030
- Competitiveness of the Hungarian business tourism. Trends and challenges.
- City tourism and integrated tourism development
- Visitor flow management and overtourism
- Tourism and climate crisis
- Destination marketing and destination management at the Hungarian destinations
- Transformation of the Organizational system of the Hungarian tourism after 2015
- Transformation and challenges of the Hungarian travel agency market. The distribution channels of travel product sales
- ‘Hungaricums’ as tourism product
- Attraction development in the Hungarian tourism
Supervisor: Dr. Kornélia Kiss
Specialized themes:
- Memorable tourism experience (MTE)
- Components of the tourism experience
- Experience management in tourism
- Consumer value, satisfaction, loyalty
Supervisor: Dr. Kummitha Harshavardhan Reddy
Specialized themes:
- Community-based tourism
- Sustainable tourism development
- Smart tourism destinations
- Tourism-based Social Entrepreneurship
- Pro-social business
- Rural tourism development