Study Tours: Strategies for Serving Business Students

Kimberley Howard; Brian Keller

Kimberley Howard and Brian Keller

Grant MacEwan University, Canada

Volume 4: 2009, pp. 135-150; ABSTRACT

This article offers suggestions on the development and implementation of inaugural for-credit study tours for undergraduate business students. Recommendations on the conception, development, marketing, pre-departure orientation, and time abroad are presented based on two faculty members’ experiences in designing and offering an inaugural study tour. A particular study tour model is not endorsed; the suggestions and strategies recommended may be useful for a variety of study tour models and education abroad activities. We highlight the need for institutional and departmental support, frequent communication with students and contacts abroad, and flexibility.

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