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

few years put paid to their operation. This type of accommodation was brought back to life in the early sixties with the practice of letting private rooms or flats through the travel agency IBUSZ. It was only in the eighties, however, that the first buildings built or converted for the express purpose of being operated as pensions reappeared. Their external appearance bears the marks of the often muddled style of ‘co-operative houses’. In the nineties, more and more architecturally sound pensions built in Alpine, Mediterranean, Historicist or mock-Baroque styles began to appear. By 1995, the number of these had reached one hundred.

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