Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Management

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Introduction

Craiglockhart Campus Library holds the core collection of hospitality and tourism books, but related stock may also be located at Merchiston (building, computing and design) Books are arranged according to the Dewey Decimal Classification scheme. A shelf label is allocated to each book so that books on the same topic tend to be found together on the shelves. Some classification numbers worth checking are:

Accounting for hospitality - 657.837
Beverages - 641.2
Catering - 647.95
Catering industry - 338.476424
Computers for hospitality - 647.940285
Cooking - 641.5
Food - 641.3
Front office - 647.94068
Heritage management - 363.69
Hospitality management - 647
Hotel design (architecture) - 728.5
Hotel design (interior) - 747.885
Hotel management - 647.94068
Hotel marketing - 647.940688
Human resource management for hospitality - 647.2
Resort design - 725.8
Restaurant design (architecture) - 725.71
Restaurant design (interior) - 747.8571
Restaurant management - 647.95068
Table service - 642
Theme parks (design) - 725.76
Tourism - 338.4791
Visitor management - 338.4791
Wine - 641.22

These are just a selection of useful numbers. Use the catalogue to find more specific results.

You can use the "Classmark..begins with" option to type in a classification number, e.g. 647.95 and the catalogue will list all the books at that number. If you type in a number with a question mark at the end, e.g. 647.95?, you will see a list of related numbers for similar subjects.

Journals relating to Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure Management are also held at Craiglockhart Library. There are also lots available electronically.

Electronic Resources

The Library subscribes to various electronic resources which cover the Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure Management subject area. A full list of all Business and Law databases can be found on the Databases page, however here are those which are of most use to Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure Management students.

Both of these give access to full text market research reports on a variety of industries, countries and consumer goods. Very good for finding things like visitor numbers, tourist numbers, where tourists are coming from, where they are going. Great demographic information telling which section of the population is spending what on their holidays, how well the UK Wine market is doing etc etc

For academic journal articles, I would recommend the following databases:

The EBSCO Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection is a good source for articles on consumer behaviour.

Nexis UK is a good source for country and market information, as well as getting information about individuals. Nexis UK is also home to our electronic newspaper holdings. Virtually all UK newspapers are available from Nexis UK, as well as newspapers from around the Globe e.g. US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy

All of the major newspapers carry relevant company, country and industry information. Of particular value is the Financial Times which regularly produces country and industry surveys.

External Resources

Tourism

STAR UK Statistics on Tourism and Research

compiled by representatives from each national Tourist Board within the UK. A great starting off point to find UK Tourism statistics

Visit Britain

responsible for promoting the whole of Britain to overseas visitors. There are seperate websites for the constituent parts of the UK

Edinburgh & Lothians Tourist Information

Tourist & visitor information for the Edinburgh & Lothians.

ANTOR

The Association of National Tourist Office Representatives. information from the UK representatives of over 70 foreign Tourist Offices, with links to relevant sites.