The aim of the journal

It publishes summary publications, original scientific papers (in Hungarian, with English abstracts; or in English, with Hungarian abstracts, Hungarian and/or English full-text publications), short studies in the fields of sports science, health science, nutrition science, tourism, including physical and mental recreation. It presents practical health promotion methods, recreation methods, the main recreational habits of Central and Eastern Europe, tourist attractions, recreational trends, recreational opportunities of municipalities, gastronomic specialities, book reviews, role models and other topical articles on recreation.

Journal columns

1. Health tourism
   Head of section: Dr. Szilvia Beke
   The aim of the section is to present tourism products and attractions that directly or indirectly contribute to health promotion or recovery through health tourism products. It focuses on presenting national and international health and health tourism trends and promoting the development of the sector.
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2. Mental Health (Before: Lifestyle-Life Coaching)
   Head of section: Dr. László Lajos Lippai
   Aim of the section: The Lifestyle-Mental Health-Coaching column aims to provide an opportunity to present research results and intervention methods of high quality that support health, mental health and social well-being and are related to recreation. The column will include empirically based studies that meet the editorial criteria for scientific texts and that significantly enrich our knowledge of holistically interpreted recreation from a theoretical or methodological point of view.
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3. Gerontology
   Head of section: Dr. Ágnes Bene (Kata Kulcsár Until the Spring Issue 2024) 
   Aim of the section: The knowledge-theoretical foundations of active ageing include prevention, achieving a better quality of life, especially mental health, mental and physical activity, lifelong learning, nutrition in old age, or even anti-ageing medicine and oriental philosophies of life, which offer practical, holistic, lifestyle-shaping solutions for this age group that can be easily integrated into everyday life.

 

4. Modern Healthy Lifestyle
   Head of section: Annamária Juhász
   Aim of the section is to show, in a scientific but at the same time everyday language, how it is possible to maintain health in the modern world of the 21st century in an absolutely holistic approach. The synergy and balance between modern technology and natural ingredients is the focus of all the articles in the column
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5. Recreational training
   Head of section: Dr. Katalin Nagyváradi
   Aim of the section: To present one of the most dynamically changing areas of sports science in the most comprehensive way possible. The studies published in this column help the reader to orientate himself between the different trends related to physical recreation. It also presents the latest research findings in the field of recreation.
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6. Sport nutrition
   Head of section: Dr. Réka Fritz (Until the Winter Issue 2023 : Dr. habil. Péter Fritz)
   Aim of section: The Sports Nutrition section provides sports athletes, recreational exercisers, hobby competitors, sports science, health science and nutrition professionals with scientifically demanding summary studies, independent research articles and discussion essays on recent research findings in nutrition science in sport.

 

7. Spiritual recreation
   Head of section: Dr. Márton Magyar
   Aim of section: Cultural or intellectual leisure includes, for example, reading, listening to music, watching movies, playing board and card games, practising religion, or even photography and other non-movement-dominant, cognitive aspects of exploring nature
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8. Talent management
   Head of section: Dr. Zoltán Szatmári
   Aim of section: To provide publication opportunities for those interested in research in the field of health sciences (including students studying in the university system and professionals with experience working outside the university system) and to support research work.
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Language of studies published in the journal
The journal accepts papers in Hungarian and English.

Editing procedure
The publisher conducts a double anonymous peer review after the manuscript has been accepted.