{"id":31816,"date":"2017-08-05T00:08:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T04:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/?p=31816\/"},"modified":"2017-08-05T00:08:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T04:08:13","slug":"budapest-2017-visitors-locals-share-reactions-fina-world-aquatics-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/budapest-2017-visitors-locals-share-reactions-fina-world-aquatics-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"BUDAPEST 2017: VISITORS AND LOCALS SHARE THEIR REACTIONS TO THE FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Now that they have come to a close, it is perhaps a good time to sit back and take stock of the FINA World Aquatics Championships. To that end, surveys have been conducted to measure Hungarians and visitors\u2019 reactions to the huge sporting event.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four out of five visitors said they would recommend that their friends make a trip to Hungary as well. Two-thirds of foreigners who visited Hungary during the 2017 FINA World Aquatics Championships between July 14 and 30 definitely plan to return to the country, a survey by the Hungarian Tourism Agency showed.<\/p>\n<p>The FINA Championships drew tourists to Hungary who may have otherwise never visited the country, the head of the tourism agency said at a press conference in the Duna Arena, one of the main venues of the event in Budapest. The average stay of visitors during the period rose to 9 days from 2.4, Zolt\u00e1n Guller noted. The FINA Championships, the biggest international sporting event ever hosted by the country, attracted around 485,000 spectators.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31817\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1-600x405.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1-600x405.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1-696x469.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1-623x420.jpg 623w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1-200x135.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1-400x270.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1-500x337.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The leaders of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) expressed \u201cmaximum satisfaction\u201d with the championships after all. FINA President Julio Maglione called the event the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/news\/best-ever-fina-championships-federations-history-held-budapest-37623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cbest ever\u201d championships in the federation\u2019s history.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What do Hungarians, whose country played host to the event, think of all this? Four fifths of Hungarians say hosting \u00a0the world aquatics championships was \u2018good idea\u2019 Fully 80 percent of Hungarians asked said that hosting the recent world aquatics championships was a good idea, while merely 11 percent said the opposite, a representative survey by N\u00e9z\u0151pont shows.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pollster surveyed a sample of 1,000 just before the competitions that took place from July 14 to 30, and another 500 after the championships ended. In July the ratio of Hungarians disapproving of the country hosting the championships was 21 percent. The shift in approval reflects the success of the event, N\u00e9z\u0151pont said. The rate of those satisfied with the way the championships were organised rose from 58 percent to 72 percent, the survey said. Over two thirds, 68 percent of Hungarians agreed that Hungary should apply to host other sports events of the same scale, N\u00e9z\u0151pont said.<\/p>\n<p>via: hungarymatters.hu \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/news\/budapest-2017-visitors-and-locals-share-their-reactions-to-the-fina-world-aquatics-championships-37514\">hungarytoday.hu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>photos: nezopontintezet.hu; fanzone.fina-budapest2017.com; fina-budapest2017.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Now that they have come to a close, it is perhaps a good time to sit back and take stock of the FINA World Aquatics Championships. To that end, surveys have been conducted to measure Hungarians and visitors\u2019 reactions to the huge sporting event.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four out of five visitors said they would recommend that their friends make a trip to Hungary as well. Two-thirds of foreigners who visited Hungary during the 2017 FINA World Aquatics Championships between July 14 and 30 definitely plan to return to the country, a survey by the Hungarian Tourism Agency showed.<\/p>\n<p>The FINA Championships drew tourists to Hungary who may have otherwise never visited the country, the head of the tourism agency said at a press conference in the Duna Arena, one of the main venues of the event in Budapest. The average stay of visitors during the period rose to 9 days from 2.4, Zolt\u00e1n Guller noted. The FINA Championships, the biggest international sporting event ever hosted by the country, attracted around 485,000 spectators.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31817\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1-600x405.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1-600x405.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1-696x469.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1-623x420.jpg 623w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1-200x135.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1-400x270.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1-500x337.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The leaders of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) expressed \u201cmaximum satisfaction\u201d with the championships after all. FINA President Julio Maglione called the event the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/news\/best-ever-fina-championships-federations-history-held-budapest-37623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cbest ever\u201d championships in the federation\u2019s history.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What do Hungarians, whose country played host to the event, think of all this? Four fifths of Hungarians say hosting \u00a0the world aquatics championships was \u2018good idea\u2019 Fully 80 percent of Hungarians asked said that hosting the recent world aquatics championships was a good idea, while merely 11 percent said the opposite, a representative survey by N\u00e9z\u0151pont shows.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pollster surveyed a sample of 1,000 just before the competitions that took place from July 14 to 30, and another 500 after the championships ended. In July the ratio of Hungarians disapproving of the country hosting the championships was 21 percent. The shift in approval reflects the success of the event, N\u00e9z\u0151pont said. The rate of those satisfied with the way the championships were organised rose from 58 percent to 72 percent, the survey said. Over two thirds, 68 percent of Hungarians agreed that Hungary should apply to host other sports events of the same scale, N\u00e9z\u0151pont said.<\/p>\n<p>via: hungarymatters.hu \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/news\/budapest-2017-visitors-and-locals-share-their-reactions-to-the-fina-world-aquatics-championships-37514\">hungarytoday.hu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>photos: nezopontintezet.hu; fanzone.fina-budapest2017.com; fina-budapest2017.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BUDAPEST 2017: VISITORS AND LOCALS SHARE THEIR REACTIONS TO THE FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS &#8211; Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/budapest-2017-visitors-locals-share-reactions-fina-world-aquatics-championships\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BUDAPEST 2017: VISITORS AND LOCALS SHARE THEIR REACTIONS TO THE FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS &#8211; Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Now that they have come to a close, it is perhaps a good time to sit back and take stock of the FINA World Aquatics Championships. To that end, surveys have been conducted to measure Hungarians and visitors\u2019 reactions to the huge sporting event.\u00a0  Four out of five visitors said they would recommend that their friends make a trip to Hungary as well. Two-thirds of foreigners who visited Hungary during the 2017 FINA World Aquatics Championships between July 14 and 30 definitely plan to return to the country, a survey by the Hungarian Tourism Agency showed.  The FINA Championships drew tourists to Hungary who may have otherwise never visited the country, the head of the tourism agency said at a press conference in the Duna Arena, one of the main venues of the event in Budapest. The average stay of visitors during the period rose to 9 days from 2.4, Zolt\u00e1n Guller noted. The FINA Championships, the biggest international sporting event ever hosted by the country, attracted around 485,000 spectators.    The leaders of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) expressed \u201cmaximum satisfaction\u201d with the championships after all. FINA President Julio Maglione called the event the\u00a0\u201cbest ever\u201d championships in the federation\u2019s history.  &nbsp;  What do Hungarians, whose country played host to the event, think of all this? Four fifths of Hungarians say hosting \u00a0the world aquatics championships was \u2018good idea\u2019 Fully 80 percent of Hungarians asked said that hosting the recent world aquatics championships was a good idea, while merely 11 percent said the opposite, a representative survey by N\u00e9z\u0151pont shows.  &nbsp;  The pollster surveyed a sample of 1,000 just before the competitions that took place from July 14 to 30, and another 500 after the championships ended. In July the ratio of Hungarians disapproving of the country hosting the championships was 21 percent. The shift in approval reflects the success of the event, N\u00e9z\u0151pont said. The rate of those satisfied with the way the championships were organised rose from 58 percent to 72 percent, the survey said. Over two thirds, 68 percent of Hungarians agreed that Hungary should apply to host other sports events of the same scale, N\u00e9z\u0151pont said.  via: hungarymatters.hu \/ hungarytoday.hu  photos: nezopontintezet.hu; fanzone.fina-budapest2017.com; fina-budapest2017.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/budapest-2017-visitors-locals-share-reactions-fina-world-aquatics-championships\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BocskaiRadio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/molnarzsolt74\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-08-05T04:08:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"518\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Moln\u00e1r Zsolt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@molnarzsolt74\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@BocskaiRadio\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bocskairadio.org\\\/en\\\/budapest-2017-visitors-locals-share-reactions-fina-world-aquatics-championships\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bocskairadio.org\\\/en\\\/budapest-2017-visitors-locals-share-reactions-fina-world-aquatics-championships\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Moln\u00e1r Zsolt\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bocskairadio.org\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/87e31754469cf7717bee741efa6897cc\"},\"headline\":\"BUDAPEST 2017: VISITORS AND LOCALS SHARE THEIR REACTIONS TO THE FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-08-05T04:08:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bocskairadio.org\\\/en\\\/budapest-2017-visitors-locals-share-reactions-fina-world-aquatics-championships\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":378,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bocskairadio.org\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bocskairadio.org\\\/en\\\/budapest-2017-visitors-locals-share-reactions-fina-world-aquatics-championships\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bocskairadio.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/gergelyp1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bocskairadio.org\\\/en\\\/budapest-2017-visitors-locals-share-reactions-fina-world-aquatics-championships\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bocskairadio.org\\\/en\\\/budapest-2017-visitors-locals-share-reactions-fina-world-aquatics-championships\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bocskairadio.org\\\/en\\\/budapest-2017-visitors-locals-share-reactions-fina-world-aquatics-championships\\\/\",\"name\":\"BUDAPEST 2017: VISITORS AND LOCALS SHARE THEIR REACTIONS TO THE FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS &#8211; 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To that end, surveys have been conducted to measure Hungarians and visitors\u2019 reactions to the huge sporting event.\u00a0  Four out of five visitors said they would recommend that their friends make a trip to Hungary as well. Two-thirds of foreigners who visited Hungary during the 2017 FINA World Aquatics Championships between July 14 and 30 definitely plan to return to the country, a survey by the Hungarian Tourism Agency showed.  The FINA Championships drew tourists to Hungary who may have otherwise never visited the country, the head of the tourism agency said at a press conference in the Duna Arena, one of the main venues of the event in Budapest. The average stay of visitors during the period rose to 9 days from 2.4, Zolt\u00e1n Guller noted. The FINA Championships, the biggest international sporting event ever hosted by the country, attracted around 485,000 spectators.    The leaders of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) expressed \u201cmaximum satisfaction\u201d with the championships after all. FINA President Julio Maglione called the event the\u00a0\u201cbest ever\u201d championships in the federation\u2019s history.  &nbsp;  What do Hungarians, whose country played host to the event, think of all this? Four fifths of Hungarians say hosting \u00a0the world aquatics championships was \u2018good idea\u2019 Fully 80 percent of Hungarians asked said that hosting the recent world aquatics championships was a good idea, while merely 11 percent said the opposite, a representative survey by N\u00e9z\u0151pont shows.  &nbsp;  The pollster surveyed a sample of 1,000 just before the competitions that took place from July 14 to 30, and another 500 after the championships ended. In July the ratio of Hungarians disapproving of the country hosting the championships was 21 percent. The shift in approval reflects the success of the event, N\u00e9z\u0151pont said. The rate of those satisfied with the way the championships were organised rose from 58 percent to 72 percent, the survey said. Over two thirds, 68 percent of Hungarians agreed that Hungary should apply to host other sports events of the same scale, N\u00e9z\u0151pont said.  via: hungarymatters.hu \/ hungarytoday.hu  photos: nezopontintezet.hu; fanzone.fina-budapest2017.com; fina-budapest2017.com","og_url":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/budapest-2017-visitors-locals-share-reactions-fina-world-aquatics-championships\/","og_site_name":"Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BocskaiRadio","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/molnarzsolt74","article_published_time":"2017-08-05T04:08:13+00:00","og_image":[{"width":768,"height":518,"url":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Moln\u00e1r Zsolt","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@molnarzsolt74","twitter_site":"@BocskaiRadio","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/budapest-2017-visitors-locals-share-reactions-fina-world-aquatics-championships\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/budapest-2017-visitors-locals-share-reactions-fina-world-aquatics-championships\/"},"author":{"name":"Moln\u00e1r Zsolt","@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/87e31754469cf7717bee741efa6897cc"},"headline":"BUDAPEST 2017: VISITORS AND LOCALS SHARE THEIR REACTIONS TO THE FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS","datePublished":"2017-08-05T04:08:13+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/budapest-2017-visitors-locals-share-reactions-fina-world-aquatics-championships\/"},"wordCount":378,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/budapest-2017-visitors-locals-share-reactions-fina-world-aquatics-championships\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gergelyp1.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/budapest-2017-visitors-locals-share-reactions-fina-world-aquatics-championships\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/budapest-2017-visitors-locals-share-reactions-fina-world-aquatics-championships\/","url":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/budapest-2017-visitors-locals-share-reactions-fina-world-aquatics-championships\/","name":"BUDAPEST 2017: VISITORS AND LOCALS SHARE THEIR REACTIONS TO THE FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS &#8211; 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