Mapping educational tourists': Experience in the UK: Understanding international students

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1003-1020

  Huang, Rong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; HIGHER EDUCATION; INTERNATIONAL TOURISM; MAPPING; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 46749140937     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: 13602241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01436590802106247     Document Type: Article

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