In this paper the authors intend to study tourism competitiveness and its components in the tourism regions of Hungary. The reason for this interest emerges from both the increasing economic, social and cultural importance of the tourist sector and the increasing competition on the tourist market. The competitiveness of the Hungarian counties is analyzed in a multi-modal approach and, finally, the penetration of the tourism regions by applying the Tourism Penetration Index will be discussed. Tourism competitiveness was analyzed from two approaches and finally the tourism penetration of each region was studied by applying the tourism penetration index. We compared the Hungarian tourism regions and tried to analyze its competitiveness and complex impact indicators as well. The results of the calculations were intended to be represented by a map well demonstrating both the ESPON classification and the spatial disparities in Hungary and also taking the original breakpoints of the data series into account. It can be concluded that from the point of view of tourism penetration, the Southern Great Plain Region indicates the lowest value while the Lake Balaton Region is the most affected.