Hospitality & Tourism Management

Academic Onefile [electronic resource].
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Business Source Premier [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. Provides full-text for approximately 2,300 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and marketing. Includes Dun & Bradstreet company information.

EIU Country Data [electronic resource].
Annual, quarterly and monthly economic indicators and forecasts from the Economist Intelligence Unit. Covers 117 countries, with 270 series starting from 1980 and forecasting to 2006.

The Global Hotel Group & Brand Analyses [electronic resource].
British hotel groups and hotel groups throughout Europe. See glossary for classification details. Economic profiles available for each country.

Global Market Information Database, Euromonitor [electronic resource].
Contains statistical and full text analysis findings under eight headings: Country Data, Consumer Lifestyles, Retail Market Sizes, Forecasts, Brands and Companies, Information Sources, Major Market Profiles and Euromonitor Market Reports.

Key Note [electronic resource].
Full text of Key Note market research reports covering over 240 titles in 26 UK market sectors. Market reports focus on a specific market segment, e.g. snack foods ; market reviews look across an entire market sector, e.g.UK food market.

Mintel [electronic resource].
Full text of several hundred UK market research reports from Mintel marketing intelligence. Covers Market, Finance, Retail and Leisure Intelligence market report journals, plus a selection of Library Special reports, market news and some other product databases.

Acompline / Urbaline [electronic resource].
Acompline and Urbaline are two complementary databases created and updated daily by the GLA Research Library. They contain details of around 400,000 documents covering all aspects of urban and social policy from the early 1980s to the present.

Business Insights / Datamonitor 360 [electronic resource].
Business Insights / Datamonitor 360 market reports cover seven main industry sectors; E-commerce/technology, financial services, healthcare, consumer goods, human resources, energy and telecommunications.

CIPD: Case Studies Club [electronic resource].
Case studies in Human Resources, covering core personnel and development, core management, employee development, employee relations, employee resourcing, employee reward and specialist electives.

Economist.com [electronic resource].
Full text of the UK edition of The Economist from 1997 onwards.

Emerald [electronic resource].
Access to management research journals from MCB University Press. The service provides access to over 20,000 management articles, with a full text archive going back to 1994.

Fame - Financial Analysis Made Easy [electronic resource].
Financial analysis of the UK's leading companies. Results of the top 1.7 million UK and Irish companies for the last ten years showing balance sheets, profit and loss accounts and other useful information. Updated weekly.

Financial Times [electronic resource].
Full text of the Financial Times (London edition) from June 1996 onwards. Updated daily. Coverage is text only, and does not include the Companies & Markets section - for historic share prices please see the Thomson One Banker e-resource.

IngentaConnect [electronic resource].
IngentaConnect offers access to article summaries of over 2500 publications, along with the full text of over 4500 publications from 150 publishers (including: Academic Press, Arnold, Blackwell Science, Blackwell Publishers,Elsevier, Gordon and Breach, Harwood Academic, Portland Press, Professional Engineering Publishing and White Horse Press).

MarketLine Business Information Centre [electronic resource].
Provides concise industry, company and country information, with profiles linked to latest newswires. Brief market reports contain information on main products and services, key employees, subsidiaries,a SWOT analysis and list of top competitors. Over 50 countries are covered.

RefWorks [electronic resource].
RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

ScienceDirect (Science Direct) [electronic resource].
Database containing over 1000 full text journals from Elsevier Science and the leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. Covers life, physical, technical and social sciences.

AA Hotels and Restaurants in Britain and Ireland.
Location: Ref 647.9447.
Details of how hotels and restaurants are classified; directory of hotels and restaurants; hotel groups, etc.

Good Hotel Guide.
Location: Ref 647.94.
Entries based on reports from readers, which are then checked, inspected, etc. No attempt to be comprehensive. Covers Britain, Ireland and the Continent, etc.

Les Routiers Guide to Britain.
Location: Ref 647.9541.
Details of Routiers recommendations - "for quality and value"; guide entries by area; index of towns, etc.

AA Hotels and Restaurants in Europe.
Location: Ref 647.944.
Route planning; country guides, hotels and restaurants; country maps, etc.

Michelin: Great Britain and Ireland.
Location: Ref 647.9441.
Directory of hotels and restaurants; town plans, etc.

DG&G Travel Directory.
Location: Ref 910.202.
ABTA member offices; agents and travel organisers: hotel groups, etc.

Handbook of Tourism and Leisure.
Location: Ref.338.4791.
Three sections - the careers; the courses; the employers.

UK Hotel Groups Directory.
Groups, addresses, parent companies, number of hotels and rooms, personnel, market levels, etc.

International Hotel Groups Directory.
Location: Ref 647.94.
Groups, addresses, number of hotels and location, market level, size, etc.

Leisure Services UK
Location: Ref 338.4799.
An introduction to leisure, entertainment and tourism services in the UK.

HCIMA Hospitality Yearbook.
Location: Ref 647.94068.
Industry review; who's who industry review; products and services review; directory section.

Travel Media Directory.
Location: Ref 338.47910294.
Guide to worldwide travel industry and conference media.

The Global Hotel Group & Brand Analyses
Location: Electronic database
Hotel group data and analysis of the sector and brands. No. of hotels and rooms, classification details, market segments, etc.

Annual Abstract of Statistics
Location: Stats. 314.1

Social Trends
Location: Stats. 314.1
Credit expenditure on holidays; attractions; attendance figures, etc.

Visit Britain
Examples- Visits to tourist attractions; Sightseeing in the UK, etc. Check the library catalogue for these printed statistical services.

Visit Britain
Statistics and publications of VisitBritain (annual reports, etc). From this site you can also access statistics on tourism in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
www.visitbritain.org

GB Central Statistical Office
Travel Trends
Location: Stats. 380.5

The Global Hotel Group & Brand Analyses
Location: Electronic database
Hotel group data and analysis of the sector and brands. No. of hotels and rooms, classification details, market segments, etc.

Mintel Country Reports
Location: Stats. 338.4791
Tourism reports country by country. Profile and characteristics of tourists, arrivals, expenditure, purpose of visit, etc. Tourism policy, tourism infrastructure, future developments.

Mintel - Travel and Tourism Analyst
Location: Stats. 338.4791
Statistical, analytical information on subjects related to tourism – for example, airlines, cruising, etc.

TRI Hospitality Consulting - United Kingdom Hotel Industry
Location: Stats. 338.4764
An annual publication. Occupancy rates, room rates, employees, guest analysis, etc.

Travel and Tourism Intelligence - Country Reports
Location: Stats. 338.4791
Tourism reports country by country.

Travel and Tourism Intelligence - Travel and Tourism Analyst
Location: Stats. 338.4791
Statistical, analytical information on subjects related to tourism - for example, airlines, cruising, etc.

TRI Hospitality Consulting - United Kingdom Hotel Industry
Location: Stats. 338.4764
An annual publication. Occupancy rates, room rates, employees, guest analysis, etc.

Kleinwort Benson Securities - Quoted Hotel Companies.
Location: Stats. 338.4764
The World Markets etc.

Prospect Shop. Business Ratio Reports. Hotel Industry
Location: Key Text 338.43 HOT
Analysis of the top companies of the industry in the UK. Performance league tables.

UK Hotel Groups Directory 2002
Statistical, analytical information on UK Hotel Groups (Electronic Database).

OECD - Tourism Policy and International Tourism.

Pannell Kerr Forster - Hotel Britain (Stats. 338.4764)
and many other publications.

Key Note
Location: Electronic Databases
Full text UK market research reports.

Mintel
Location: Electronic Databases
UK full text market sector reports. Some European news

World Tourism Organisation
Yearbook of Tourism Statistics; Tourism Trends World-wide . and many other publications

Printed Abstracts and Indexes.
Both Abstracts and Indexes refer one to the whereabouts of a particular piece of subject information. The ' Indexing' service merely lists the "finding details" or full reference to article. The 'Abstracting' service gives the full reference (author, title of article. title of periodical, date, volume, etc.) and an abstract or summary of the article.

HCIMA Bibliography of Hotel and Catering Management
Location: Abstracts and Indexes

European Access
Location: Abstracts and Indexes Collection EUR
Current awareness guide to the policies and activities of the European Union

Electronic Databases One can also find subject information from periodicals, conferences, etc. by using various Electronic Databases. The library subscribes to a number of electronic databases which give world-wide subject coverage and include

Hospitality and Tourism Index
Business Source Premier (Business, management, economics, marketing etc.
FAME (UK Company Financial Information)
Sociological Abstracts (Sociology)

The Electronic databases are available for independent, unlimited access. Most of the electronic databases provide full reference and an abstract or summary of the article. Some Electronic databases are full-text

Newspapers
Business Source Premier
European Business ASAP

Helpsheets for using these services are available. For a full list of suitable electronic databases/journals see E-Resources
Please note that many of these electronic databases/journals are available off campus.

See Library website for availability, helpsheet, etc.

Having found suitable subject references, one now has to decide whether to proceed with the particular subject reference. If the item is not in stock, then one can use the inter-library loan service. The details on loan forms are transmitted by a computer system to the British Library Document Supply Centre. Inter-library loans are not counted as part of one's normal loan allocation. A letter of notification is sent out when the loan is supplied.

ABTA
(Association of British Travel Agents)
Destinations, specialisations in the field of travel, etc.

HCIMA
(Hotel and Catering International Management Association)
International information in the hospitality industry.

Visit Britain
Information for consumers on tourism in the UK. Also the official corporate site of VisitBritain. Access to the annual report of VisitBritain from this site.

Visit Britain
Statistics on tourism for the UK

HCIMA Library
(Hotel and Catering International Management Association)
Trinity Court, 34 West Street,
Sutton,
Surrey.
SM1 1SH
Telephone 0870 010 6689
Open Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm
Special rate for student membership (£32)

City Business Library.
1 Brewer's Hall Garden,
London
EC2V 5BX.
Telephone 020 7332 1812
Handout available.

VisitBritain
Thames Tower,
Black's Road,
Hammersmith,
London
W6 9EL.
Telephone 020 8563 3000
The library is no longer open to students. Library offers a paid for information service. See VisitBritain web sites for statistical information, etc.