Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Resources
The following contains a short selection of e-journals around your subject area to get you started. To access DIT Library's full list of e-journal titles go to the E-Journals Portal.
Electronic Journals
- Annals of Tourism Research
- Cornell Hospitality Quarterly
- European Journal of Marketing
- International Journal of Hospitality Management
- Journal of Brand Management
- Journal of Sustainable Tourism
- Journal of Travel Research
- Leisure Studies
- Long Range Planning
- Marketing Intelligence and Planning
- Tourism Management
- Total Quality management and Business Excellence
Internet Links
Hotel and Hospitality Management
- American Hotel and Lodging Association
- Institute of Hospitality
- Hospitality Net
- Irish Hotels Federation
- International Hotel and Restaurant Association
- People1st - Sector skills council for hospitality, leisure and tourism
- Virtual Training Suite: For the development of information literacy and IT skills
Leisure Management / Sports
- Irish Sports Council
- Keynote
- Resource Guide for Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism
- Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC)
- ILAM Ireland
- Sport England - with substantial resources section
- SPRIG - Promoting Information in Leisure, Tourism and Sport
- Virtual Training Suite: For the development of information literacy and IT skills
Tourism
- Ecotourism at Conservation International
- Failte Ireland (corporate site)
- Tourism Ireland (cross-border Tourism body)
- Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory
- Travel & Tourism Intelligence - analysis of the global travel industry
- World Tourism Organisation
- World Travel and Tourism Council
How to Guides
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- How to locate exam papers on the library OPAC
Subject Databases
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A unique Irish database with full text of business stories from a range of over 30 Irish publications. Includes Irish company information. |
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EBSCO database for the hospitality and tourism industries. Areas covered include food and |
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An extensive resource with full text access to 2950 scholary publications. Coverage includes management, economics, finance, international business and a sizeable though not exhaustive tourism and hospitality collection. There is also access to full text country monitors and reports from the Economist Intelligence Unit and detailed company profiles courtesy of Datamonitor. |
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Leisuretourism.com incorporates a whole array of useful information resources specifically tailored to meet the needs of the leisure, recreation, sport, tourism and cultural industries community, including: regular news, reviews, conference proceedings, jobs, calendar and access to a searchable database with records selected from the CAB ABSTRACTS® database, many records with linkage to full text journal articles. Each year articles from over 400 publications are abstracted in this subject area.
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Access to over 50 full text Irish reports from Mintel International, a leading supplier of consumer-based market research. Our subscription is for their series of Irish reports, covering the retail, market, leisure, and finance sectors. Typical titles include "Irish lifestyles" "Pubs and clubs" "Golf in ireland" "Hotels in ireland" "Yogurts" "Soft drinks" "Online shopping" etc, etc. Click on "Logon" to view. |
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Provides access to 100 dictionary and reference titles published by Oxford University Press. Also includes English and bilingual dictionaries, thesauri and dictionaries of quotations. Examples of useful e-books found here are: A Guide to Countries of the World; A Dictionary of Business and Management; and The Oxford Companion to Irish History among many others. |
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Full text of 35000 articles from 100+ journals covering the major management disciplines including strategy, leadership, information management, marketing and HRM. |
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