Leisure & Resort Management

Starting your Research

Starting your Research

Encyclopedias, handbooks and subject specific dictionaries will help provide useful background information, as well as terms to use when searching the databases. For example:

Lück, M. (Ed.). (2008). The encyclopedia of tourism and recreation in marine environments. Wallingford, UK; Cambridge, MA: CABI.	Murphy, P. E. (2008). The business of resort management. Boston, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann.
Cohen, M. & Bodeker, G. (Ed.). (2008). Understanding the global spa industry: Spa management. Amsterdam; Boston; London: Butterworth-Heinemann.	Bell, S. (2008). Design for outdoor recreation. New York: Taylor & Francis.

A GOOGLE search can also help find background information and suggestions for more keywords.

Keywords & OPAC

Keywords & OPAC

Use OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) to find books, journal titles and audio-visual materials in the Library. When searching for information, you need to use keywords. See below for some suggestions.

Festival planning	Festival management	Health resorts
Hotel design and construction	Hotel housekeeping	Hotel management
Hotel planning	Leisure management	Recreation leadership
Resorts management	Resorts planning	Special events planning
Special events management

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Finding Articles Online

Finding Articles Online

The articles inside magazines, journals & periodicals are very useful sources of information. Articles are different from books because:

• they are much more up-to-date
• they are shorter (less to read!)
• they concentrate on topics or specific aspects of topics
• there are many articles being published all the time so you have more choice.

The library catalogue, OPAC, does NOT tell you what articles the Library has, only which journals or periodicals, so the easiest way to find articles is to use the online databases.

• Academic Search Premier

• Business Source Premier

• Hospitality and Tourism Complete

• MAS Ultra: School Edition

• Global Market Information Database (GMID)

Speciality Searches from Business Source Premier

• Country Reports - for reviews of countries, including economic studies and political risk.
• Company Profiles - for Datamonitor reports.
• Industry Profiles - for identifying the competitive landscape, market size, and more.
• Market Research Reports - for news and analyses on major events in specified markets.
• SWOT Analyses - looking at strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats within specified companies.

Newspaper Articles

Newspaper articles are also very useful sources of information, and can be found in the LexisNexis Academic and the Factiva databases.

• Factiva (Dow Jones)

• LexisNexis Academic

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Click here for a list of all the databases subscribed to by TP Library.

Recommended Websites

Recommended Websites

Hotels - the online magazine of the worldwide hotel industry, scroll down this page and select the DESIGN link for news and information on architectural and interior design, room design, restaurant design, hotel renovation and refurbishment, construction and more.

Hotel and Motel Management - an online magazine supplying news analysis and operating resources as well as strategies about marketing, finance, technology, design and product purchasing.

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