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Reference and Circulating Materials
Government Documents
Journals
Databases
Internet Resources
The Marvin K. Peterson Library has a strong collection of resources on the hospitality, tourism, and restaurant industries, including resources on business management, marketing, ecotourism, and the culinary arts. This guide presents a selection of resources, both ours and useful Internet sources.
Important Links
Library Home Page
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Journals at the MKP Library
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Interlibrary Loan Information and Forms
For help writing papers, consult the Center for Learning Resources Writing Lab in Maxcy Hall.
For library help, visit us at the Information Desk, call us at 203-932-7189, or e-mail us: LibraryHelp@newhaven.edu.Use the Library Catalog to find circulating and reference materials, including books, audio-visual holdings, government documents, and periodical titles. (For periodical articles, see the Journals section.)
Our catalog uses the Library of Congress (LC) classification system and subject headings. LC assigns call numbers (letters and numbers) according to the book's primary subject.
Choose the type of search you want by selecting from among the many options offered: keyword, subject, author, title, etc. Then place the cursor in the find this box and type in the words you want to search.
Examples of some LC subject headings you might use for a subject search:
Advertising--Tourism
Ecotourism
Food service
Gastronomy
Hospitality industry
Hotel management
Hotels
Quantity cookery
Restaurant management
Tourism
Tourism--Marketing
Look for search tips at the bottom of the catalog search page. For more detailed search strategies, consult our Catalog Tutorial.
Reference and Circulating Materials
Reference books can be used only in the library; circulating books can be borrowed. Please note that some books are also available online. Check the Linked Resources tab in the bibliographic record once you find it. The following is a sample list of the books we have on the hospitality and tourism field:
Advertising in Tourism and Leisure. HF6161.T63 M67 2001
Benchmarking in Tourism and Hospitality Industries. G155.A1 W56 2002Business of Holidays. GT4803 .B87 2004
Culinary Tourism. TX357 .C83 2004
Cultural Tourism: The Partnership between Tourism and Cultural Heritage Management. G156.5.H47 M35 2002
Dictionary of Travel, Tourism & Hospitality. Ref. G155.A1 M397 2003
Ecotourism & Certification: Setting Standards in Practice. G156.5.E26 E35 2002
Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America. Ref. GV53 .E53 2004
Environment and Tourism. G155.A1 H64 2000
Experience Intercultural Communication: An Introduction. HM1211 .M37 2001
Food Preparation for the Professional. TX820 .F63 2000Global Sport Sponsorship. GV716 .G57 2005
Health Information for International Travel (from the CDC). Ref. RA783.5.C45a. Also online.
Hospitality Management Accounting. HF5686.H75 C53 2004
Hospitality Marketing Management. TX911.3.M3 R443 2001
Hospitality Operations: Careers in the World's Greatest Industry. TX911.3.V62 N56 2005
Hotel and Travel Index. Ref. TX907 .H59Hotel Front Office Management TX911.3.M27 B35 2003
Impact of Travel & Tourism on the U.S. and State Economies. Ref. G155.U6 I495
International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management. Ref. TX905 .I68 2005x
Introduction to Management in the Hospitality Industry. TX911.3.M27 P68 2003
Marketing & Selling the Travel Product. G155.A1 B88 2000Marketing Asian Places: Attracting Investment, Industry, and Tourism to Cities, States, and Nations. HC415.I53 M37 2002
Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism. TX911.3.M3 K68 2003
Marketing Planning & Strategy: Casebook. HF5415.13 .J35 2001
Niche Tourism: Contemporary Issues, Trends and Cases. G155.A1 N68 2005
Official Hotel Guide. Ref. TX907 .033Position Paper on Cultural & Heritage Tourism in the United States. [GovDoc]
Remarkable Service: A Guide to Winning and Keeping Customers for Servers, Managers, and Restaurant owners. TX911.3.M27 R453 2001
Restaurant Financial Basics. TX911.3.F5 S36 2002
Restoring Tourism Destination in Crisis: A Strategic Marketing Approach. G155.A1 B385 2003
Selling Cruises. G550.D46 2003
Service Quality Management in Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure. TX911.3.M27 S46 2001Sport Tourism Destinations: Issues, Opportunities and Analysis. G155.A1 S66 2005
Stats to Go: A Guide to Statistics for Hospitality, Leisure, and Tourism. TX911.3.S73 B94 2000
Strategic Management for Travel and Tourism. G155.A1 S685 2003
Summary of Sanitation Inspections of International Cruise Ships. [GovDoc] HE 20.7511: Also online.Tourism: Principles, Practices, Philosophies. G155.A1 G6 2003
Tourism and Hospitality in the 21st Century. G155.A1 T68 2001Tourism and the Economy: Understanding the Economics of Tourism. G155.A1 M234 2004
Travel and Tourism Works for America: The Economic Impact of Travel on States and Congressional Districts. G155.U6 T74 2006
Travel Industry Association of America Reports.
This series includes titles such as:
Travelers' Use of the Internet. Ref. G156.5.I5 T72. 1994, 1997, 1999-2001, 2003, 2005. Look for others in the same call number area.U.S. Cruise Vessel Act: Report to Congress.... [GovDoc] Microfiche. 1.1/5:107-47. Also online.
The Peterson Library has been a Federal Depository Library since 1971, and many of your catalog searches will turn up government publications. Many resources are available online; click on Linked Resources to check for the online availability of a particular item. For catalog items with the [U.S. Gov't Docs] location that are not online, come to the Information Desk for staff assistance.
♦Note also:
GPO Access (Government Printing Office) contains bibliographic citations to documents published by Federal Government agencies from 1976 to the present, with links to the online publications where available.
For more information on government resources, consult How to Find U.S. Government Documents.
Journals at the MKP Library on the home page is a listing of most of the periodical titles, current and historical, to which you have access through the library. Formats of journals include print, microform and electronic (online).
To find:
♦Single journals or articles
Type the title of the journal into the top search box. Results will show which databases contain the journal electronically and give you a list of available issues to search through.
Available UNH Library Holdings are also given to enable you to find and/or copy the article in the library. Current and older issues of most of our print periodicals, interfiled in a single alphabetical arrangement, are on the lower level.
Ask for current newspapers and microform holdings at the Circulation Desk.
♦Lists of journals by keyword or subject
Use the top search option, with the drop-down box set to Title contains all words and search with title keywords (e.g., travel*, touris*, restaurant*, hospitalit*, etc. [*= truncation here]).
You can also select a subject category (lower drop-down search box) and select subjects like Business & Economics and the listed subcategories.
♦A list of articles on a subject
Consult the Databases section.
A sampling of journal titles that may be of interest:
Annals of Tourism Research
Bon Appetit
Business Travel News
Consultant
Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly
Country Reports
Gourmet
Food Management
FoodService Director
Foodservice Research International
Hotel & Motel Management.
Hotels: the International Magazine of the Hotel & Hotel Restaurant Industries
Hospitality Design: HD
Hospitality Research Journal
International Journal of Hospitality Management
International Tourism Reports
Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research
Journal of Travel Research
Journal of Vacation Marketing
Leisure Travel News
Lodging Hospitality: LH
Nation's Restaurant News
Restaurant Business
Restaurant Hospitality
Restaurant/Hotel Design International
TTI Country Reports
Tourism and Hospitality Research
Tourism Economics
Travel & Leisure
Travel Holiday
Travel WeeklyThe following are some databases useful to students studying the tourism and hospitality industries. For a complete list of our electronic resources, see our Annotated List of Databases. For more detailed examples of search strategies, consult our Database Tutorial.
Business
Provides news, analysis and information on businesses and regional market areas published in hard-to-find local and regional publications.
Abstracts and some full text from national and international business and management journals, as well as company and executive profiles.
Provides articles and information from periodical publications with a trade and industry focus (including market trends) in many market sectors such as construction, hospitality, tourism, transportation, travel and more.
The full text, online version of the print sources. You can search state and federal laws and regulations, National Labor Relations Board decisions, analysis and commentary.
Business and Company Resource Center
A database of company profiles, brand information, market intelligence, rankings, financials, investment reports, histories and industry news going back twenty years. Includes information from Brands and their Companies, and Business Rankings Annual.
Reports and data on business management and economic issues produced by the Conference Board. Topics include e-business, consumer research, travel, and branding, and cover international business.
Directory of Corporate Affiliations
A business directory, this database of company information includes parent/subsidiary relations, is searchable by company size, amount of business done, and SIC & NAICS (Standard Industrial Classification & North American Industrial Classification) codes.
Emerald Fulltext is a collection of articles from journals in management, including Hospitality & Tourism Management.
National and international coverage. Find industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more.
Business information, including company profiles, company histories, market intelligence, news stories, names of executives, and financial information.
Information on business, accounting, industry, company financial data, country data, economic data, and trade show information.
Includes SEC data, also available online at the SEC EDGAR site, as well as in LexisNexis - Business. Mergent (formerly Moody's) analyzes corporations and institutions, providing history, properties, management and financial data (updated via news reports).
These timely and useful National Bureau of Economic Research publications can be downloaded. We also have the print publications in the Circulation Stacks. HB1.A2 N3
The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) publishes reviews of member countries' economic situations as well as those of selected non-member countries, focusing on the economic history and conditions of each country examined.
Directory listings of U.S. companies. Includes parent and subsidiary relations between companies and lists small companies not included in the larger databases.
STAT-USA.
Includes SOTN (State of the Nation), NTDB (National Trade Data Bank) and GLOBUS. Contains domestic and international trade and market information, including country-specific information, industry-specific information and industry-country information, as well as economic indicators. The World Factbook, U.S. Global Trade Outlook, A Basic Guide to Exporting, Background Notes, Business America, and Country Commercial Guides are some of the publications that are available in full text.
Access: Depository. Available in Library only, on Terminals 1 or 2.
USA Trade Online.
A database of domestic import and export information.
Access: Depository. Available in Library only, on Terminals 1 or 2.
Legal
Items are image-based, fully-searchable and provide comprehensive coverage from the inception of each publication. HeinOnline has four major library collections: Law Journal Library, Federal Register Library, Treaties and Agreements Library, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library.
An index of more than 1,400 titles including law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. LegalTrac also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.
Includes text from law reviews and primary sources of the law.
Multidisciplinary (including business topics)
A database of international and North American photographs and graphics such as maps, logos and illustrations from the Associated Press.
Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress)
Peer-reviewed journals, working papers and other scholarly information offered for free downloading (with free registration). Includes journals in economics, business and marketing.
Maps, global economic and demographic data by country and region. Useful for business, marketing, tourism research.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Includes journals in Business and Economics.
FirstSearch.
Provides access to many databases such as Dissertations from North America and Europe, EconLit, and more. Disclosure is also available directly via the database. Available in the library only. Ask at the Information Desk for password, if needed.
Gale Virtual Reference Library E-Books
Access to several multi-volume reference resources, including the following Gale encyclopedias: Small Business; U.S. Economic History.
Health & Wellness Resource Center
Provides instant access to medical reference materials, many of which provide information on health issues in travel and tourism.
Homeland Security Digital Library
The HSDL provides access to U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national security documents, as well as theses and reports from academic institutions and local and state organizations.
InfoTrac OneFile and Academic OneFile
Two multidisciplinary databases that provide access to citations, abstracts and lots of full text articles from journals and newspapers. IOF includes popular publications, while AOF focuses more on academic titles.
IRIS (Illinois Researcher Information Service)
A database of funding, grant and scholarship opportunities in all fields. Includes useful links to other sites, and provides online guides to grant writing. You can sign up for an e-mail alert service.
The default, general section includes the full text of newspapers and magazines from around the world.
The Reference section provides biographical information on business and political leaders, international country information (including Walden Country Reports), surveys and polls, and state profiles.
The statistical tables include over 30,000 tables from U.S. and international, government, trade and professional organizations, covering most topics.
Includes full text for the following newspapers:
- Boston Globe (1980-current)
- Christian Science Monitor (1988-current)
- Hartford Courant (1992-current)
- Los Angeles Times (1985-current)
- New York Times (1980-current)
- Wall Street Journal (1984-current)
- Washington Post (1987-current)
The ProQuest Historical Newspaper Collection covers these same newspapers for earlier dates, but cannot be searched at the same time as the regular newspaper collection.
ProQuest Education Journals; Wilson Education Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts periodical literature in the field of education. Contains over 550 titles with nearly 300 in full text.
The following three psychology databases below contain information on management, organizational behavior, marketing and more. They are all available through EBSCOhost:
Index with full text of APA (American Psychological Association) journals back to the 1980s.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Mostly full text of non-APA (American Psychological Association) periodical literature from the 1970s on. Includes book reviews, conference proceedings and reports.
Index to psychological literature with some abstracts from 1887 to the present. A citation in this database will link to the full text, when available, in any EBSCOhost database, such as PsycARTICLES or the Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection.
Business directory that provides the most current information on millions of businesses nationwide, including small businesses not listed elsewhere. The database allows you to search by company name, size, sales, SIC or NAICS code, and geographic area.
An index to books, journals, reviews, conference proceedings and videos published by Elsevier.
STAT-USA, includes SOTN (State of the Nation), NTDB (National Trade Data Bank ) and GLOBUS. Contains domestic and international trade and market information, including country-specific information, industry-specific information, and industry-country information, as well as economic indicators. Depository. Available in library only, on Terminals 1 or 2. Available to the general public.
USA Trade Online.
A database of domestic import and export information. Data can be downloaded. Depository. Available in Library only, on Terminals 1 or 2. Available to the general public.
An index to the publications of John Wiley & Sons.
♦Airlines and Flying
Air Transport Association (ATA) of America
Airports Council International
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Federal Aviation Administration
International Air Transport Association
♦Amusement
International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions
IALEI, International Association for the Leisure & Entertainment Industry
♦Club Management
♦Cruise Lines
♦Culinary Information
International Association of Culinary Professionals
►Foodservice
►Wines
♦Employment
In addition to the professional organizations listed in each category, you might try the following sites:
Career Guide to Industries: Leisure and Hospitality
Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management Career Opportunities
♦Facilities Management
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers
Building Owners and Managers Association
♦Lodging
American Hotel & Lodging Association
International Hotel & Restaurant Association
►Bed and Breakfast
Educator's Bed & Breakfast Travel Network
National Bed & Breakfast Association (NB&BA)
►Lodging Locators
Accommodation Search Engine (ase.network)
♦Meetings, Conventions, etc.
American Society of Association Executives (ASAE)
International Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus
International Association of Professional Congress Organizers (IAPCO)
♦Travel Abroad
U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention: Travelers' Health
U.S. Dept. of State:
♦Travel and Tourism
Gimp on the Go: Disabilities Travel Publication
International Trade Administration: Office of Travel and Tourism
Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory
♦Travel Booking
►Aggregators
♦Travel Planning
Any questions? Come to the Information Desk, call us at (203) 932-7189, or e-mail us.
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