CACTUS CACTUS J Tour Bus Manag Econ CACTUS – Journal of Tourism Business, Management and Economics 2247-3297 ASE Publishing House Bucharest, Romania 10.24818/CTS/4/2022/1.02 cactus-2022-3 Research Article Z30, Z31, A23 Educational Tourism and Local Development Suciu Marta-Christina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2665-0920 christina.suciu@economie.ase.ro Savastano Marco https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5713-4139 Stativă Gheorghe-Alexandru Gorelova Irina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1205-3658 Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Sapienza University of Rome, Italy 15 6 2022 4 1 1562022 Copyright © 2022, The Author(s) 2022 The Author(s) This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Educational tourism is a new branch of tourism, which has experienced a significant increase in recent times, due to the important benefits it brings to the local communities. Universities and other educational specialized institutions may highly contribute, support and encourage local development through educational tourism. Students who benefit from studying abroad can be considered as symbolic educational tourists, and their stay is considered to have a high potential to generate benefits. The host university may facilitate the development of better relationships between tourists and local communities in order to contribute to the development of the local economy in a sustainable and resilient way. Education tourism has to be taken into account by all educational institutions due to the different learning opportunities that might be better exploited. This paper focuses on some indicators considered to be relevant for educational tourism.

 Keywords educational tourism local development student mobility

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