Tourism and Foreign Direct Investment: Issues, Challenges and Prospects

including conceptual chapters (Chapters 2 and 3), 8, 9, and 11), descriptive analyses and narrative As Jonsson notes, one of the limitations with the study of tourism foreign direct investment is the lack of industry-specific data. High-quality tourism and economic data are often sparse in developing countries anyway but the problem is exacerbated because "tourism" is comprised of numerous secisolating an aggregate tourism foreign direct investment is a challenge. Often a proxy of hotel accommodation is used, although this is difficult to obtain