“…More specifically, FDI promotes economic growth, which affects tourism, and in turn tourism will stimulate economic growth further (Bezuidenhout and Grater, 2016). Therefore, tourism is increasingly important to the development of the world economy (Gupta, 2015; Kaur and Sarin, 2016; Kostakis and Theodoropoulou, 2017; Lee and Chang, 2016; Tang et al, 2007). Moreover, there is an inseparable relationship between FDI and foreign exchange earnings from international tourism (FEE) (Gupta, 2015; Jayaraman et al, 2014).…”