Characteristics and Implications of British Educational Tourism

DOI

10.2991/iserss-19.2019.69How to use a DOI?

Keywords

educational tourism, Britain, learning through traveling, implications.

Abstract

Educational tourism is a combination of research-based learning and traveling which is beneficial for educational tourists to broaden their horizon. But due to the lack of understanding about the concept of educational tourism and its associated impacts, educational tourism sector is one of the unnoted sub-sectors of Chinese tourism market. Britain has classical and perfect education system and offers versified educational tourism products. This paper analyzes the development and characteristics of British educational tourism. After analyzing the successful experience of British educational tourism, it also puts forward strategies for accelerating educational tourism in China from the perspective of government regulation, balancing “traveling” and “learning”, diversifying educational tourism products, promoting internationalization and establishing security system.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuqi Si
AU  - Yanfang Zeng
AU  - Jingwen Wang
AU  - Heqin Wang
AU  - Fei Yang
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - Characteristics and Implications of British Educational Tourism
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Seminar on Education Research and Social Science (ISERSS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 61
EP  - 64
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iserss-19.2019.69
DO  - 10.2991/iserss-19.2019.69
ID  - Si2019/06
ER  -