The higher education students’ tourism market: the role of Portugal in international mobility Flows

• Autor(a) principal: Carneiro, Maria João
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Malta, Paula Alexandra
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/rtd.v0i7/8.13781

Despite the number of persons travelling for education, research and reliable data on educational tourism are scarce. This is particularly true regarding international higher education students’ market which is a distinct and expandingsegment of the tourismsector.This paper describes the separate nature of higher education tourism market, its current global size, international education mobility patterns – identifying worldwide leading destinations and generating countries – and trends.Special attention is given to international organized student mobility occurring in the framework of the ERASMUS and to the Portuguese participation in this Programme.Data show that Portugal is one of the few countriesthat have generated a growing number of students, and that nowadays plays a very important role as both generator and host country. Details are provided about the evolution of the Portuguese students and about the current flows of Erasmus students between Portugal and other countries along side with comparisons between the participation of Portugal and other countries in the ERASMUS.