Hardi Tamás - Tóth Károly (szerk.): Határaink mentén. A szlovák-magyar határtérség társadalmi-gazdasági vizsgálata (2008) (Somorja, 2009)
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222 Summary ber of mentions in all four contact types, following Budapest and Győr - despite its much smaller number of population (Figure 6). Of course the list is not suitable for making far-reaching analyses but it well demonstrates the major junctions of integration mechanisms realised though interpersonal ties in the border region. Frequency and objective of border crossings The frequency of travels also reveals the bigger activity of the Slovakian side. The Slovakian respondents (who have already been to the other side of the border) travel to Hungary much more frequently than the Hungarians to Slovakia (Table 4). The proportion of daily commuters is also significant among the Slovakian respondents. West of the Ipoly River it concerns over 3% of the respondents, evidently due to the better employment possibilities in the first place. The definition of the objective of the travels is not less important. Table 5 demonstrates the most frequently mentioned reasons for the travels in the questionnaires. A relatively small proportion of the respondents mentioned work and business affairs as the motivation of travel. However, if we consider that these goals are strongly connected to the travels of daily or weekly frequency, we can see that this objective is becoming more important among the motivations of crossborder travels. The purchase of durable goods is more frequent at the eastern section of the border, on both sides. It is most typical at this Figure 6. Destinations of the cross-border travels
