VIEWING SITUATION OF TURKEY IN EDUCATIONAL TOURISM AS A NEW CONCEPT BY GLOBAL SCALE
YENİ BİR KAVRAM OLARAK EĞİTİM TURİZMİNDE KÜRESEL ANLAMDA TÜRKİYE’NİN DURUMUNUN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ

Author : Mustafa Kemal ERÇEK
Number of pages : 668-677

Abstract

Educational tourism, one of the most popular tourism branches in recent years, is a new tourism branch that takes place for students by travelling to a specific region or a country to develop themselves in a specific field, to have a job or to make a career. This provides their country’s economy with a new business space. This business space that could provide lots of sectors such as transportation, accommodation, education, entertainment, travelling, health, nourishment and trip with income hasn’t reached an upper level in our country compared to that in developed countries. Furthermore, this “educational tourism” concept is a topic that has not been well studied in our country in literature. In this study, economical size and status in future of educational tourism were viewed in global scale and it was seen it had a gradually increasing importance. On the other hand, it was found out that, in the evaluation in terms of our country, studies regarding with educational tourism has not positively been conducted.

Keywords

Education, Tourism, Educational Tourism, International Student

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