Emerging from COVID-19
TOURISM AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT:
ISSUES, CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS
Tourism and Foreign Direct Investment: Issues,
Challenges and Prospects by Dr. Cristina
Jönsson, Lecturer in the Department of
Management Studies, Faculty of Social
Sciences, is the first volume to examine and
shed significant light on the issues, challenges
and prospects presented by foreign direct
investment (FDI) in tourism – a topic of
increasing relevance in light of the COVID-19
pandemic and economic consequences.
This
book addresses the need to examine the TFDI
phenomenon considering resilient tourism
development approaches and includes
discussion on impacts of a rapidly evolving
global pandemic on tourism. Recognising
that its impact on tourism has only just
begun, the book includes early estimates of
the damage to the tourism economy and
TFDI over 2020 and beyond. It considers how the COVID-19 pandemic may change
society, the economy, and tourism, and
how some of the key research needs to
understand these changes and contribute
to a more sustainable post-pandemic
tourism sector.
Through a collection of
chapters focusing on principles, practices
and a diverse range of destination case
studies, the book considers TFDI from the
economic, social and environmental and
regulatory perspectives. Thus, the book will
advance understanding of the positive and
negative impacts of TFDI as well as how
emerging problems and wider implications
for local economies and communities can
be managed more sustainably, while also
discussing the transformative opportunities
offered by TFDI regarding key economic,
social and environmental issues.
