Tourism increasingly features in strategic regional policy documents, being considered important to regional economic prospects. Consequently many regions, notably those less prosperous, have expended significant resources in developing tourism attractions, promoting tourism events and...

Inward investment from foreign manufacturing firms has been sought as a remedy to regional industrial problems in the UK. Foreign manufacturing offers the prospect of industrial diversification, new jobs and incomes, and can also represent a stimulus to new ideas and practices in domestic...

Trends in inward investment in Scotland and Wales have influenced manufacturing’s inter-linkages with the local economy in different ways. The paper shows that there could be a hollowing out of the manufacturing sector in these regional economies which is linked to trends in inward investment.