PRESS RELEASE (Hungarian National Tourist Office)
13th Oct. 2010
No Threat to Tourist Destination Areas!
The water resources and water supply of Hungary, including tourist destination areas continue to be unaffected!
Upon request from the Hungarian National Tourist Office, the National Directorate General for Disaster Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs hereby informs service providers and institutions involved in Hungarian tourism as well as individual tourists that Hungary's key tourist destination areas continue to be completely unaffected by the red sludge disaster. The water resources and water supply of Hungarian tourist regions that are popular among and are frequently visited by foreign tourists, such as Budapest, the Lake Balaton, the medicinal lake of Hévíz in the Balaton region and other cure locations in Western Hungary and elsewhere in the country are not endangered and it is completely safe to stay and consume water in Hungary's tourist destination areas.
The latest news updates relating to the sludge pollution are continuously accessible at http://redsludge.bm.hu, a website operated by the Hungarian government. Hungarian version can be accessed at www.vorosiszap.bm.hu
Tourist information: Magyar Turizmus Zrt.
Office for Communication
Tel.: 011-36-1-488-8748,
E-mail: pr@itthon.hu
Situation Report No. 8.
Budapest, 12 October 2010