EDUCATIONAL TOURISM: ORIGIN, DEFINITION AND TRENDS
The phenomenon of educational tourism is being studied. It is considered in terms of origin, terminology and trends in its development. In its early history, three bursts of its development were distinguished: antiquity in Greece (acquisition of knowledge by the Greeks from the Egyptians) and the same years in China (the transfer of knowledge by Confucius and his students to the countries of Central Asia); a pan-European educational space in Europe, formed by medieval universities together with papal and imperial power; Grant tours from England to continental Europe and the Mediterranean in the 17th - 16th centuries. Various definitions of the term “educational tourism” are summarized and its essence is revealed. Trends in the development of educational tourism are considered on the basis of a recent analytical report by Future Market Insights and a bibliometric analysis of publications with the term in question using experiments in Google Scholar and Google Books. It is shown that in the early publications (70-80s of the 20th centuries) on educational tourism, the travel component prevailed when they were made for educational purposes, but not for the purpose of obtaining formal education abroad.