Business source premier

Good place to search for articles from professional journals not found on Google Scholar as well as academic articles. Click on the peer-reviewed button if you only want academic articles.

Emerald fulltext

Emerald journals are all from the same publisher. Best results found if you do an advanced search. There you can also choose to search just for case studies or literature reviews.

Click on Journal of the Week for free weekly access to two of Emerald's journals.

Recommended for Museum and Heritage studies students

ProQuest

Science direct

Wiley Online Library

Hantsphere

Museology bibliography (MBUSE)

Bibliography of British and Irish History

EarthTrends

Bibliographic database of the conservation information network (BCIN)

Annals of tourism research

Cornell hospitality quarterly

Cornell hotel and restuarant administration quarterly

The Cornell hotel and restaurant administration quarterly

Cornell hospitality quarterly earlier issues of this journal which changed publisher

Current issues in tourism

International journal of contemporary hospitality management

International journal of heritage studies

International journal of hospitality management

Journal of hospitality & tourism research [Journal of hospitality and tourism research]

International journal of tourism research

Journal of ecotourism

Journal of service research

Journal of sustainable tourism

Leisure sciences

Journal of travel research

Leisure studies

Locum destination review

This is not strictly a journal being from a firm of consultants but has interesting short articles and thought-pieces from in-house and guest contributors. Issues tend to be themed – recent issues covered Olympics and purpose-built resorts

Managing leisure

Tourism economics

Tourism management

Tourism review

Dictionary of leisure, travel and tourism

Dictionary of Food: International Food and Cooking Terms from A to Z

Penguin Encyclopedia of Places

Cooks Thesaurus

(free) of ingredients and kitchen tools

World Tourism Organization

Not as much free information here as you might hope but under online services you will find Lextour, a database of links to country legal and regulatory institutions, and Touristerm, part-glossary, part-translation aid for terms in tourism

Food and Drink Federation : FDF

website offers information such Food and Drinks’s contribution to the economy. Look under Industry and Food Sectors and Foodservice to find a very useful Out of Home section with market data and an excellent set of links to Foodservice and Leisure and Tourism organizations

Hospitality Net

Essentially a USA site for the hospitality industry, you can find some European market reports here and sign up for a free daily newsletter

People 1st/

is the sector skills council for hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism. You can find lots of free case studies, industry profiles and “state of the nation” reports on the industry if you register.

Foodlaw-Reading

a continuously updated site with links to UK and EU legislation and news on food and food safety

Intute : hospitality and catering

links to and reviews of sites specially chosen for their relevance to students. Look at Intute also for their sections on Tourism

SPRIG

an organization which promotes information resources in Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure. Look here under GUIDES to find a series of documents with descriptions and links to useful websites

Dictionary of hotels, tourism & catering management

by P. H. Collin

SUBJECT REF 647.9403/COL

Encyclopedia of leisure and outdoor recreation

edited by John M. Jenkins and John J. Pigram.

790.03/ENC

International encyclopedia of hospitality management

chief editor Abraham Pizam.

SUBJECT REF 647.9403/PIZ

VisitEngland

has statistics and market research on domestic tourism. Look under "Insights and Statistics".

Global market information database [GMID -]

(Euromonitor Passport). You will find market reports on leisure time use for a variety of countries here.

Mintel

Lengthy reports with data on catering topics such as ethnic restaurants and roadside catering plus travel and leisure

Overseas travel and tourism

Quarterly business monitor detailing quarterly results from the International Passenger Survey. Contains data on visits to and from the UK by overseas residents and visits abroad by UK residents.

VisitBritain

has a huge amount of data and market intelligence on domestic and inbound tourism. Look under "Insights and Statistics".

Networked digital library of theses and dissertations

British Library EThOS

A database of digitised UK doctoral theses offering free online access to theses of participating Higher Education institutions

Index to theses

This will help you identify UK and Irish theses

Nexis UK

Huge amount of news content, Select Financial Times as a Source under the Source Tab to search the FT

Refdesk

links to US and international newspaper sites

Department for Culture, Media and Sport [DCMS]

the main government department for these sectors.

Leisure day visits survey, Museums and galleries monthly visits and Alcohol, entertainment and late night refreshment licensing statistics are just some of the reports you will find here alongside government policy

SPRIG(pdf)

If you are interested in social networking you will find this SPRIG guide to blogs, Twitter feeds, wikis etc very useful