Foreign investment in tourism: The case of macao as a small tourism economy

Tourism Geographies

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 173-191

  Sheng, Li ^a   Tsui, Yanming ^a  

^a MACAO POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (Macao)

Author keywords

Foreign investment; Macao; Side effects; Small tourism economy

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY MAKING; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA; MACAU;

EID: 77953562083     PISSN: 14616688     EISSN: 14701340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616681003725219     Document Type: Article

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