This book reports on results achieved in a research project that dealt with agriculture and the food industry in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC). It examines the current economic conditions and the changes that are taking place and yet must occur, in the process of preparing for...

This chapter focuses on market and budgetary effects of different variants of the EU's Agenda 2000 for the five Central and Eastern European Countries in the first wave of accession negotiations, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia. The development of CEEC agricultural protection...

The implications of introducing the CAP in the Central and Eastern European Countries are discussed. Four scenarios are discussed: (1) continuation of national policies in CEECs without accession to the EU; (2) adoption of the acquis and preparation for EU membership, with an overall increase in...

A set of issues which may be particularly relevant in the context of preparing for and implementing the accession of the CEECs to the EU in the agricultural sector are described. These issues include: reforms and CEEC agricultural transition; price and trade policies; structural change and...

This book addresses European tourism within the framework of an enlarged European Union of 25 members. It looks at the substantial reorientation of the organizational framework of European tourism and its profound implications for future structural and geographical patterns of development....

This chapter examines current patterns and trends in Czech tourism in terms of the administration of tourism, foreign exchange receipts and expenditure, inbound and outbound travel, method of transport, and the role of budget airlines. It also explores the impacts of EU accession on tourism...

This chapter examines the impacts of EU accession on Hungarian tourism. It is revealed that in the relatively short period since EU accession, practical changes have proved to be the most important immediate impacts of EU membership, notably the expansion of the low cost airline market and the...

This chapter first describes the evolution of the tourism industry in Estonia from the Soviet era down to the transition era (1991-94) and then to the period of EU accession (1995-2003). It then introduces the Estonian National Tourism Development Plan 2002-05 and 'Brand Estonia', and describes...

This chapter first discusses the importance of tourism to the Turkish economy and describes the country's principal tourism resources and attractions by region. It then provides a brief account of the likely impacts both of EU enlargement and of Turkey's EU accession on Turkey's tourist industry....

This chapter presents the impacts that EU accession is bringing to the development of the tourism sector in Slovenia and especially to the development of Slovenia as a tourism destination brand.