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Explore the sights of Poland with the help of a new app!
Poland’s National Institute for Monument Conservation (NIKZ) has launched a new app to encourage and help people discover the country’s monuments and rich cultural heritage.
The new service, MonumentApp, works with Google Maps and offers, among other things, ready-made sightseeing itineraries based on different interests and themes. It
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Croatia’s Hidden Gem: Hotel Maslina | Luxurious Tranquillity by the Adriatic Sea
One of the most popular European summer getaway destinations is the Adriatic Sea—the home to charming islands and an abundance of Mediterranean nature. If you’re looking for a place to stay to relax and unwind in harmony with nature, then the Hotel Maslina is the place to go.
lifestyle
One of the world’s most beautiful libraries opens to the public in Prague
The Baroque hall of the Klementinum building complex is being opened to the public as part of a new city tour to attract more cultural tourists to the Czech capital.
In Prague’s Old Town, not far from Charles Bridge, stands the second largest historic building complex in the city,
architecture
Have you seen it? Here is the Budapest anti-city guide booklet!
Tourist attractions featured in guidebooks are almost without exception “wonderful,” “unique,” and often come even with a “Don’t miss it for the world!” notice. But what happens when we want to be tourists on our own home streets, and to top it all, less conventionally—without bias and without
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Prague City Tourism celebrates its 65th anniversary
Prague City Tourism celebrates the 65th anniversary of its foundation this year with a year-long series of events.
The association, originally called the Prague Information Service in 1958, changed its name in 2018 and has undergone a major transformation: it no longer just provides information but also aims to improve
lifestyle
Abandoned gems | Balaton offseason
Exciting shapes, captivating stories, and a seemingly desolate countryside: this is the off-season holiday paradise through the lens of Dorottya Bartha, the creator of the Balaton offseason Instagram page, who tells us how she found the topic of her love project.
How did you end up at Lake Balaton at
The perfect blend of luxury and comfort in Tarcal
The five-star Andrássy Mansion & Spa has brought fresh blood to the Tokaj wine region—on the occasion of its reopening, we had a look at how the former aristocratic palace was fitted out in 21st-century attire.
At last, one of the most famous Hungarian wine regions, Tokaj, is on its
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Slovenian city awarded with prestigious green award
Velenje received the European Green Leaf Award for small cities
The European Green Leaf Award is given every year to cities with a population between 20 and 99 thousand in recognition of outstanding efforts made for promoting a more sustainable living. The jury monitors not only finished projects but also
lifestyle
This is what Charles III’s Transylvanian inn looks like
Now, anyone who books a night at Charles III’s estate in Valea Zălanului, Romania, can feel like royalty.
We have written before that Charles III is not a fan of contemporary architecture, but he’s far more fond of historic buildings and old traditions. Perhaps that is why he
business
One of the largest travel agencies for accommodation reservations in CEE will go to Polish hands
Wirtualna Polska Holding, a company listed on the Polish stock exchange, is to acquire Szallas Group, which has become an international player in recent years and is behind the Hungarian szallas.hu website. The Warsaw-based e-commerce and media giant is expected to pay €82 million to the owners.
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Tallinn, the culinary paradise - Hypeandhyper's favorite restaurants
Estonia’s capital is a culinary hotspot. We have delved into the mysteries of Slavic, Russian, and Estonian cuisine to bring you three of Tallinn’s best restaurants. Our recommendations from the Jewel of the Baltic, Tallinn.
Tallinn is a magical city, as is the whole Baltic region. In the
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Digital tourism: The Hungarian Tourism Agency launches a new data-based website
We live in an increasingly digital and data-driven world, and public bodies such as the Hungarian Tourism Agency (HTA) cannot overlook this. These two aspects are combined on HTA’s new website, igyutazunk.hu, creating a webpage that provides experts and the general public with useful information and spectacular visualizations
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Fear or flight? | The impact of war on tourism
European tourism is getting the short end of the stick again. After the Covid-19 pandemic, when it seemed that nothing could stand in travelers’ way, Russia attacked Ukraine. What are the implications of war in this context? Can the current situation lead to a similar backlash as in 2020? Or
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Participants of the CASSINI competition might rewrite the continent’s tourism with space data
Design Terminal has won another international space industry-related competition. The innovation agency is organizing the 3rd round of the CASSINI Hackathon in Hungary, which aims to help participants make European tourism more sustainable. European space projects and services will help the participants.
The 3rd CASSINI Hackathon focuses on sustaining and
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Essence of Hungary | Balaton
The Hungarian sea. The largest lake in Central Europe. It becomes the heartbeat of the country every summer. Lake Balaton, with its thousand faces, is certainly one of the best known and most iconic Hungarian regions, long enjoyed by locals and tourists alike, regardless of age or social group.
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Essence of Hungary | Győr and Pannonhalma
The top left corner of Hungary is a treasure trove of sights that make you think of the Little Hungarian Plain with affection. A romantic riverside, wildly colourful towns and a many-faceted history combine well together here. In Győr, the main city of the region which hosts a number of
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Slovenians have built the perfect place to observe nature | Bobrov Center
The Bobrov Center is more than just a wooden container—it’s the dynamics of open and closed spaces that make the Slovenian institution a playful and lovable place suitable for exploration and retreat.
The Bobrov Center near the Slovenian-Croatian border, is a sophisticated contemporary example of Vernacular architecture. It
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Haita Land offers comfort in a romantic setting
The Bukovina region is not only famous for its natural treasures: the mountains and the surroundings of the wild pine forest hide numerous cultural heritage and treasures. One of these is the Haita Land, an unusually authentic village that represents both traditional and contemporary values.
The story of Haita Land
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Good people, good places | Big picture of gastronomy
Now that the long awaited spring comes closer by the day, and after each warmer day we keep longing for sweater weather even more, we might just get in the mood to go somewhere, just like we did before. To plan a cool weekend full of great programs, when we
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House on the edge of the village | Kővágóörs, Hungary
We stumbled across the guesthouse named bari.boci, a hundred-year-old red stone building in Kővágóörs, right on the edge of the village, in the gate of the Káli Basin. As not only the house and the plot are unmatched, but what has been brought out of them, too, we asked
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Hotel rooms in home office mode | Hotel Rum, Budapest
The hotel industry was one of the sectors that were hit extremely hard by the crisis brought on by the Covid-19 epidemic. Luckily however, instead of being buried in hopelessness, many saw the opportunity offered by the extreme situation: including Budapest-based Hotel Rum whose team decided to utilize their gorgeous
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Indulj el!
Perhaps we can now add something to Hungary, even if something really small.
Even though HYPEANDHYPER’s framework requires the magazine to be not “only”
about Hungary, it wasn’t really up to us this time, rather to the circumstances
caused by the epidemic and repeated ad nauseum. Originally the
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From hotels to home office | A response to the crisis from Amsterdam
The hospitality and hotel industries found themselves in an extremely difficult
position owing to the pandemic. Two hotels in Amsterdam, however, attempt to
survive the situation with a seemingly successful rebranding strategy: now they
offer their rooms transformed into private work spaces to the employees wishing
to escape from their