Tourism for International Higher Education: Boosting Science-Founded Economy

Edification can accomplish its ultimate goal of satisfaction-packed quality life only when it travels abroad. The objective of this strategic postmodern article is to develop and delineate interrelations of tourism and international higher education (IHE) on science-founded economy and social wealth. The research method involved both inductive and deductive reasonings in linking science and IHE to economy directly and indirectly as well as independently and interactively. Tourism science and industry involve architecture, urban planning, bioenvironment, industrial development capacities, and their multidisciplinary interrelations. Accordingly, any effort to invest on tourism for IHE advancement needs to take into account these research areas. Tourism is globally considered a reality that helps target, collect, and establish ‘focus’ on particular natural, urban, social, cultural, and industrial uniqueness and attractiveness. Thus, tourism is itself viewed as an integrated science the advancement of which requires effective education. As a result, tourism is grown by education and, in turn, helps cultivate science education grow in any particular area. This tourism-driven cascade can help attract interest on any region with its own touristic capacities. Consequently, human interactions will expand that could in turn fuel investments on science education, thereby fostering IHE proficiencies. Such touristic attractions ought to be identified, highlighted, and invested on to permit IHE aptitudes extend harmonically. The versatile tourism opportunities across the country offer highly prestigious capacities to establish world-class higher education standards to motivate and magnetize foreign resources (e.g., research visitors, graduate students and postdocs, exchange science delegates, and international fundingagencies) toward various regions of the country. Ultimately, scientific and industrial interactions will fuel national economy through exporting and exchanging domestic IHE products with the fascinated world. To sum, tourism serves IHE with highest capacities to boost science-founded national economy.