International hotel groups and regional development in Central and Eastern Europe

Acknowledgements This paper is based on the author’s PhD thesis which was completed in 2011 at The University of Manchester, UK. The author is grateful to his supervisors Dr Martin Hess (The University of Manchester) and Professor Neil Coe (currently in the National University of Singapore) for supervising the PhD project. The paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Los Angeles in April 2013 at the session entitled ‘Evolutionary perspectives on the multinational corporation (MNC)-institutional nexus’. The session was organised by Dr Andrew Wood (University of Kentucky) and Dr Crispian Fuller (University of Aston) and sponsored by Economic Geography Specialty Group.Peer reviewedPostprin