Foreign direct investment and international tourism.

Summary This study focuses on foreign direct investment and international tourism. It is a simultaneous study on international tourism demand in terms of both arrivals and receipts. These elements have been the subject of little previous work, due to the specificity of tourism and the gaps in statistical data. This work is in two parts. The first part is divided into two chapters. The first chapter presents an economic analysis of FDI, including the tourism sector and international tourism. In the second chapter, the main determinants of FDI and the tourism sector are studied. The second part concerns econometric applications and typological classification of FDI determinants. In the first chapter, the statistical data, the methodology concerning descriptive statistics, and the econometric models are studied in order to demonstrate the link of interdependence and interaction. The second chapter is devoted to the analysis of the tests of the countries involved. The association of the results of the econometric tests with a study of the monograph of each country allows us to establish a ranking of the determinants of FDI for tourism.