Hello, I am looking for someone to write an article on Globalization, Tourism, and Foreign Investment and Liberalization of the Economy. It needs to be at least 3750 words. One of these industries, tourism, has quietly emerged to become an important force in many societies and economies in various parts of the world (Burns & Holden, 1995, pp 134-146).

Though not usually thought of as a single cohesive industry, the growth of tourism since World War II has nonetheless been dramatic (Landau, 1969). Higher discretionary incomes, smaller family size, changing demographics, lower transportation costs, improved public health standards, infrastructure development, and hospitable environments for tourists in many destinations have made tourism, especially long-distance tourism, an activity within the reach and desires of many members of many nations. Furthermore, developments in marketing, management, vertical and horizontal integration, pricing, and tour packaging, as well as capital investments in physical facilities — “bricks and mortar” — and public infrastructure, have provided tourism with the necessary framework to allow the tremendous growth it has experienced over the past half-century. Thus, tourism has indeed emerged as an “industry” which, according to the World Tourism Organization, 1989 generated approximately 74 million jobs in its direct and service-related industries, such as airlines, hotels, travel services, and publications (Gartner, 1996, pp 76-82)). Many countries and regions which have possessed the necessary resources for tourism development have chosen, either consciously or otherwise, the path of developing large scale tourism as a major national or regional activity. Tourism has become a major employer, taxpayer, and physical and political presence in many jurisdictions. As a result, tourism has often altered the very nature of social, political, and economic interaction that occurs in these places. Frequently, the transformation has been no less dramatic than the shifts that took place generations before, as agrarian ways were pushed out by industrialization.&nbsp. Now, in industrialized countries, tourism is frequently pushing out (or more correctly, replacing) manufacturing, distribution, or extractive industry as the economic mainstay.&nbsp.