1st Edition
Tourism and Foreign Direct Investment Issues, Challenges and Prospects
Section I Introduction
Chapter 1: An Overview of Tourism-related Foreign Direct Investment (TFDI)
Author:
Editor Dr. H. Cristina Jönsson (The University of the West Indies)
 
Section II Current Issues in Achieving Sustainable Foreign Direct Investment in Tourism
Chapter 2: Foreign direct investment in tourism: host destination opportunities
and challenges
Author:
Professor Larry Dwyer (Business School University of Technology Sydney)
 
Chapter 3: Local impacts and perceptions of tourism foreign direct investment (TFDI): A conceptual framework
Authors:
Editor Dr. H. Cristina Jönsson (The University of the West Indies)
Dr. Nicola Palmer (Sheffield Hallam University)
 
Chapter 4: Tourism FDI and sustainable development in Mauritius. A dynamic
investigation.
Author:
Dr. Shereen Fauzel (University of Mauritius)
 
Chapter 5: Institutional influences on national tourism-related foreign direct investment (TFDI) policies and programmes: Kyrgyzstan, Central
Author:
Dr. Nicola Palmer (Sheffield Hallam University)
 
Section III Destination Case Studies in Tourism Foreign Direct Investment
 
Chapter 6: Panel Analysis of FDI Determinants in Tourism Industry Revisited: New Evidence from France
Authors:
Dr António Miguel Valente Martins (The University of Madeira)
Susana Cró (ISAL – Madeira)
 
Chapter 7: Why Croatia still needs FDI in tourism? Insights and evidence
Author:
Maja Nikšić Radić (University of Rijeka)
 
Chapter 8: Foreign Direct Investment, Tourism Development, and Economic Growth: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Author:
Dr. James Antwi (GIMPA School of Technology)
 
Chapter 9: The relationship between FDI and tourism growth: A Case Study of
China
Authors:
Professor Eliyathamby A Selvanathan (Griffith Business School, Griffith University)
Dr Maneka Jayasinghe (Asia Pacific College of Business & Law, Charles Darwin University)
Professor Saroja Selvanathan (Griffith Business School, Griffith University)
 
Chapter 10: Foreign Direct Investment in Nature Tourism: A Proposed Model for Economic Development of Bangladesh
Author:
Ms Sara Tasneem (Dhaka University)
 
Chapter 11: Effect of Foreign Direct Investment in Tourism on Economic Growth: Empirical Study in Indonesia
Author:
Dr. Bryna Meivitawanli (Bina Nusantara University)
 
Chapter 12: Experienced ‘realities’ of Tourism Foreign Direct Investment: Empirical evidence from Barbados
Author:
Editor Dr. H. Cristina Jönsson (The University of the West Indies)
 
Section IV Conclusions
Chapter 13: Current Knowledge and Future Research Directions in Tourism Foreign Direct Investment
Author:
Editor Dr. H. Cristina Jönsson (The University of the West Indies)
Biography
H. Cristina Jönsson is a Lecturer at The University of the West Indies, Barbados. She holds a PhD in Tourism awarded by the Sheffield Business School at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Before joining The University of the West Indies, Cristina was a municipal tourism manager in Sweden. She has extensive knowledge and experience from planning, development and management in the international tourism sector and has worked with both private and public sector organisations in various countries. Cristina’s wide cultural familiarity along with mastering seven languages has been a great asset in all projects, research and collaborations, as well as translation and interpretation work. Her current research interests include foreign direct investment (FDI) in tourism, small island tourism, sport tourism, post pandemic migration and tourism mobilities.






