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Tourism and Hospitality guide

Databases

TU Dublin has a number of databases that are relevant and useful for hospitality and tourism. They can be accessed via the Search Resources page on the Library website.

If you are searching a database from home you will be asked for your staff or student number and your email password.

These are our principal databases for Hospitality & Tourism:

Hospitality and Tourism Complete

EBSCO database for the hospitality and tourism industries. Areas covered include food and
beverage management, hotel operations, leisure and business travel, market trends, company rankings and more.

 

Business Source Complete

An extensive resource with full-text access to 2950 scholarly 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.

 

LeisureTourism

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.

 

Mintel Irish Reports

Access to a range of 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.

 

Oxford Reference Online

Provides access to 100 dictionary and reference titles published by Oxford University Press. It 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.

 

Emerald Premier

Full text of 35000 articles from 100+ journals covering the major management disciplines including strategy, leadership, information management, marketing and HRM.

 

Search All is a facility that can search all library resources at once, but it does not search each individual title in a database. 

 

 

Journals

Print Journals

A number of printed journals are available. These are currently shelved in class-number order at Grangegorman Park House library. Some older copies of the journals are held in another building, and these can be sent for on request.

eJournals

The list below contains a short selection of eJournals around your subject area to get you started. To access the Library's full list of e-journal titles go to the E-Journals Portal.

Note: If you are accessing e-journals from off-campus, you will be required to authenticate using your Student Number and Library PIN or TU Dublin email password.