ИСТИНА

Importance of academic tourism for national economies receives a growing recognition in European countries. But in long-perspective its influence will become greater still, especially as students, who participated in higher education mobility eventually will be acquiring positions of more responsibility in their countries of origin. Besides being an economic factor, its potential in all spheres of life will grow. The paper classifies the predominant forms of academic tourism in the world at present on the basis of research literature and delineates potential nodes of growth as observed in practice in the 21st century.