János Csapó
Dr. Habil, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Tourism
Faculty of Central European Studies Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra

Tourism, due to its regional development effect, can endow the areas with new functions by creating new, recreational or tourism zones. Among the numerous impacts of the tourism function changes of the brown fields maybe the most important is that a successful revitalisation program can trace back the given area to the functioning texture of the settlement. These revitalisation processes can promote the creation of a more reasonable spatial management advancing the reorganisation of the spatial structure. Those Hungarian towns are in the focus of this research where tourism, recreation was the main direction of the development.

Keywords: brownfields, tourism development, function change, Hungary