Juhász Gyula - Szántó András: Hotels - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

out of business with the major political changes of the late eighties and early nineties became, after some refashioning, members of the ERAVIS chain in which new capacity they have continued to function as two- star hotels (PLATANUS - No. 44 Könyves Kálmán körút, district VIII; ERAVIS - No. 152 Bartók Béla út, district XI; VENTURA - No. 179 Fehérvári út, district XI; TOURING - No. 38 Pünkösdfürdő utca, district III; FLANDRIA - No. 27 Szegedi út, district XIII; M-ZERO - No. 1 Tejút utca, district XXI).

The so-called touring hotels belong to the same type of establishment. These provide transit visitors with accommodation for one or two nights at relatively low prices. The first in a series of hotels of that type were the Hotel (Ibis) AERO (No. 1-3 Ferde utca, district IX) and the Hotel WIEN (No. 88-90 Budaörsi út, district XI).

In the late eighties and early nineties, several companies responded to growing customer demands by building and operating hotels of various sizes. This category is represented, for example, by the Hotel FAMILY (No.

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