1.    Dieke, P.U.C. (2003). "Tourism in Africa’s economic development: Policy
implications". Management Decision, Vol. 41 No. 3, 287-295.

In his article, Dieke (2003) assesses the benefactions of tourism to Africa’s economic development.
Overall, the article covers tourism as a vital part of the economy on the continent, followed by
factors which potentially might stimulate it at national and sub‐national level, or inhibit its
development, while providing detailed regional context. The final part of the article includes the
ruminations regarding the policymaking in these aspects of concern, referring to the perspective of
Kofi Allan, the Secretary‐General of the United Nations on the African development challenge. This
study is valuable not only because it forms a general understanding of nexus between tourism
industry and economy in Africa, but because it presents concrete suggestions regarding its further
evolvement as well.


2.    Nyasha, S., Odhiambo, N.M. & Asongu, S.A. (2021). “The Impact of Tourism Development on
Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa”. Eur J Dev Res 33, 1514–1535.

By using the Generalized Method of Moments and data covering the period from 2002 to 2018, Nyasha
et al. (2021) investigate the impact of tourism on Africa’s economy, focusing on sub-Saharan
Africa. A strength of this study is its narrowness and preciseness in the territory it covers,
which lets the authors describe the above-mentioned part of the continent in more detail, by
grouping it into low-income and middle-income categories. This study should be considered because
it is based on empirical results in dynamic, which makes the analysis more founded. Even though the
results depict that the impact of tourism cannot be estimated properly, for the effect it has is
not obvious, varying in different facets of the economy, this paper can still be beneficial in
studying the dynamic impact tourism has on the economy for predicting and calibrating its course
with policy implementation.


3.    Ehigiamusoe, K. U. (2021). “The nexus between tourism, financial development, and economic
growth: Evidence from African countries”. Afr Dev Rev. 11, 382– 396.

In this study, Ehigiamusoe, K. U. (2021) examines tourism as a significant predictor of financial
development and economic growth, using Dumitrescu–Hurlin Granger non-causality test and the Granger
causality test. On the basis of results from 31 African countries, the author provides empirical
strategies and results regarding the bidirectional causality between the following factors. Further
to the foregoing point, the author suggests that in order to enhance economic growth, policymakers
should prioritize the policies that can improve the tourism and financial sectors, due to their
relatedness. This analysis may become helpful in studying the interconnectedness between
economy-shaping factors and their further exploitation.