This week’s topics
Evaluating Developing Nations in the Global Tourism Economy
- Structural vulnerability and debt burdens
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) challenges
- Foreign direct investment and economic leakages
- Post-colonial tourism dependencies
- Panel: Economic and Political Impact of China's Overseas Direct Investment
- Lecture 06: New Economic Policy, LPG Framework
What you will be able to do
- 2.2 Critically evaluate the status of developing countries using theories of international development.
Activity
Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: critically evaluate the status of developing countries using theories of international development.
Study materials
Videos
- Panel: Economic and Political Impact of China's Overseas Direct Investment · YouTube · Columbia Business School · 78 min · for registered students
- Better data for a better tourism in SIDS (SIDS4 Conference Virtual Side Event) · YouTube · UN Tourism · 92 min · for registered students
- Jeffrey Sachs: China, the Game Changer · YouTube · Columbia Business School · 51 min · for registered students
- Economic development in the 21st century | LSE Event · YouTube · LSE · 88 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Tourism for Development: 20 Reasons Sustainable Tourism Counts for Development (World Bank Group, 2017) · Reading · Other, report · for registered students
- Tourism: The International Business (Mill, 2010), ch. 6: Why develop tourism? · PDF · Other, textbook chapter; pp. 130–149 · for registered students
- World Investment Report 2025: International investment in the digital economy (Overview) · PDF · Un, report; 36 pages · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
