Many developing countries are looking to tourism as an avenue for economic and human development, and foreign direct … investment (FDI) is one of the routes through which they can carry out tourism. This study highlights the main findings with … respect to the development impacts of foreign direct investment in tourism (TFDI) in five East and South African countries, on …

This paper presents preliminary field research findings on tourism global production networks (GPNs) in Kenya and … Uganda. It addresses the questions of whether economic upgrading in the tourism global production network leads to social … upgrading for workers, small producers and community members in tourism localities, and what conditions support it. It further …