DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2024, 16(3):4-8 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2024.025 
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2024, 16(3):9-35 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2024.009
P�cs is a Hungarian city in the country's south, close to the Croatian border. To define it as the gateway to the Balkans is an overstatement, but it has some potential. As a school town, it has the role of an intellectual gateway. In the Middle Ages, the (bishop's) city developed as a spiritual and intellectual bastion of Christianity on the southeastern periphery of the West. For centuries, the Church's missionary activity in Bosnia and Bulgaria gave a role to the Franciscan and Dominican monks who ran monasteries and schools in the city.After the Ottoman-Turkish conquest, P�cs retained its multicultural and multiconfessional denominational...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2024, 16(3):36-56 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2024.010
The study examines the tourism situation and performance of the P�cs-Vill�ny tourism area between 2018�and 2023. The aim of the research is to analyse the effects of the pandemic, to explore the spatial�rearrangements of the region and to examine the quantitative and spatial distribution of tourism�development resources. In addition, the study will review the delimitation of the P�cs-Vill�ny tourism area at the municipal level, as defined by Government Decree 429/2020 (IX. 14.). The results show that�the region was not as severely affected by the pandemic as the national average, but in 2023 there was a�significant decline in the tourism sector. Another...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2024, 16(3):57-81 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2024.011
Vojvodina, a region in the southern part of the Pannonian Plain, is home to a significant Hungarian ethnic�minority living beyond the borders of Hungary. Located in northern Serbia, it has become one of Europe's�most ethnically diverse regions since the 17th and 18th centuries. This diversity is largely due to planned�and spontaneous migrations aimed at compensating for the substantial population loss that occurred�during the Ottoman conquest of the region and the subsequent wars of reconquest. Historical, political,�and economic transformations have drastically altered the dynamics between ethnic groups multiple�times. In the second half of the 20th...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2024, 16(3):82-98 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2024.012
Cross-border cooperation has become an integrated element of the European Union’s Cohesion Policy. In�line with the strategic objectives, entrepreneurship and innovation have gained importance from period to�period. Although cross-border programmes are generally understood as non-profit schemes, direct SME�funding appeared already in the 2007-2013 period. On the basis of some Western European examples, a�pilot programme was implemented in the Croatia-Hungary border area in the 2014-2020 period that directly supported businesses. The paper, after providing an overlook on SME development in EU cross-border cooperation, summarises�the particularities...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2024, 16(3):99-120 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2024.013
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2024, 16(3):121-144 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2024.014
Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) has become a cornerstone of European Union regional policy, promoting integration and addressing disparities across border regions. This paper critically examines the motivations, patterns, and outcomes of CBC initiatives in Europe, focusing on the interplay between normative drivers, such as shared cultural values, and instrumental motivations, such as access to Interreg funding. By synthesizing theoretical perspectives with empirical evidence, the study uncovers regional heterogeneity in CBC practices, highlighting East-West and North-South dynamics as well as differences between Old and New Member States. The...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2024, 16(3):145-171 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2024.015
The study contributes to the debate on the Europeanisation of spatial planning by attempting to identify the intellectual content of the EU-level orientation towards the transformation of spatial planning systems and practices of Member States. The paper analyses relevant European-level spatial-planning-related policy documents to reveal the directions of the Europeanisation of domestic planning systems. This paper argues that the EU-driven spatial planning changes can be captured in a limited number of dimensions. Based on content analysis of European-level documents on urban policy, territorial cohesion and spatial development, the author proposes...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2024, 16(3):172-184 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2024.016
As the popularity of smart city research is increasing, the measurement of smartness became also a popular research topic. This is in accordance with the demand of the planners and project financing institutions for the success indicators, and with the observable tendency of new indicators for describing the settlements from the point of view of the quality of life, liveability, creativity, environment, social capital, development and many other fashionable research aspects of modern urban societies. Analyses through such indicators run the risk of taking a mechanistic, technocratic, superficial approach to complex urban systems, ignoring the complex...
DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2024, 16(3):185-189 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2024.017