This book outlines the main forms of educational tourism, their demand and supply characteristics, their impacts and the management issues associated with them.It argues for adequate research and appropriate management of educational forms of tourism to maximise regional development impacts and personal learning benefits.

Dr Ritchie is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Tourism at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research interests have focused on city and capital tourism, visitor behaviour and tourism marketing. He has also published extensively in the area of tourism crisis and disaster planning, management and recovery, in journals such as Tourism Management, the Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing and Current Issues in Tourism. He is also co-editor of the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management and on the editorial board of four tourism journals including Tourism Recreation Research.