Residents’ perceptions of the socio-cultural impacts of tourism at Lake Balaton, Hungary

Apart from obvious and visible effects on the economy and the physical environment, tourism can contribute to social and cultural changes in host societies, including changes in value systems, traditional lifestyles, family relationships, individual behaviour or community structure. In Hungary, most studies on the impacts of tourism have so far been restricted to economic analysis, and the subject of socio-cultural impacts of tourism has been underresearched.