Library Resources for Hospitality & Tourism

Resources for Students

 



Online Reference Books

The International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management is published by Elsevier and is available in the Gale Virtual Reference Library. If you are accessing this resource from off campus you will need your My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password as a login.

The An A-Z of Food and Drink is available online.

See also the database Infotrac Hospitality, Tourism, & Leisure Collection and Business Insights: Essentials, which contains reference books, below.

 



Other E-Books

To access these books from off campus you will need your My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password. Type a word or phrase describing the subject in the search space below:

 



Periodical Databases

Periodical databases let you find articles on a specific subject in magazines, newspapers, and trade journals.

To access databases such as the Gale databases listed below, go to Library's Online Databases - http://library.chemeketa.edu/information/database.php. If using databases from off campus, you will need your My Chemeketa user name and password.

A guide to using the Gale databases may be found at http://library.chemeketa.edu/instruction/galeperiodicals.php.

General

Academic OneFile [Gale]
For scholarly journals on a variety of topics.
General OneFile [Gale]
The best source for popular periodicals, news magazines, and tourist information..

Business

Business Insights: Essentials [Gale]
Index to thousands of journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, and accounting, often in full text. Also contains detailed company and industry profiles; to access them, search on a company name and then click the "Company Profiles" link. First choiceAlso has information from many Gale business-reference books.
InfoTrac Culinary Arts Collection
Covers major cooking, nutrition, restaurant, and food industry magazines and journals from 1980 to present.
First choiceInfotrac Hospitality, Tourism, & Leisure Collection [Gale]
This collection of more than 800 journals and 29 subject specific Delmar reference books provide well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism fields.
LexisNexis Academic
Click on the News link in the navigation menu, then click on the link to  Business & Industry. 

Supplementary Databases

Additional databases are found on Chemeketa's databases page under Supplementary Online Databases - http://library.chemeketa.edu/information/supplement.php.

 



Image Databases

Britannica ImageQuest is a very large database with high quality images of all kinds of subject matter. Images have been cleared for educational use. If using databases from off campus, you will need your My Chemeketa user name and password.

 



Professional Associations, Trade Publications, Etc.

Sources for Names of Professional Organizations and Titles of Periodicals

 



Finding Library Materials

Within the college district    Outside the college district

Within the college district 

If you live in Marion, Polk, or Yamhill Counties (Oregon), you can use the Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library System. In addition to the books in the Chemeketa College Library, the catalog also contains the collections of the 17 public libraries located in the regional library district. You can return our books to any public library in the CCRLS system.

To check out books from a CCRLS library you need a Chemeketa student I.D. card or a CCRLS public library card. Please contact the service desk in Building 1 (Yamhill campus) or the MAPS desk in the Bookstore (Building 1, Salem campus) or a student I.D. card. After that, you will be able to use your I.D. card as a library card.

If the book you want is at another library in the system, it can be sent to one convenient for you.

picture of catalog search page

To search in all libraries in the system at the same time, make sure that you choose "All CCRLS libraries" from the menu of library names.

Instructions for using the catalog and for requesting material are to be found on the Chemeketa Community College Library catalog page.

Electronic books are available to Chemeketa students.

If the material you want is not in your local library, you can click the "Summit" button in the library catalog, or search Summit directly. Chemeketa students taking at least one credit hour and Chemeketa employees may request items in Summit and have them sent to Chemeketa (either Salem or Yamhill), or they may set up a Visiting Patron account. For help with Summit requests, please contact the reference desk at 503-399-5231 or reference@chemeketa.edu..

If you do not find what you need in Summit, ask your local librarian to request an interlibrary loan. That way the book you need can be sent from Chemeketa or another library for you to check out and use locally.

Skip to information on subject terms in library catalogs

Outside the college district 

If you live outside the college district, but in Oregon, Washington or Idaho, you can search in the Summit Catalog. Chemeketa employees and students taking at least one credit hour may request items in Summit and have them sent to a Summit library where thay have set up a Visiting Patron account. For help with Summit requests, please contact the reference desk at 503-399-5231 or reference@chemeketa.edu.

If you do not live near a Summit library, you can search your local library catalog, or you can search in that of Chemeketa, Summit, or another library to find material you need. You will find all these options on the catalog page. If the material you want is not in your local library, ask your local librarian to request an interlibrary loan. That way the book you need can be sent from Chemeketa or another library for you to check out and use locally. A four-page guide to library research services for distant students contains more information on interlibrary loan.

Electronic books are available through to Chemeketa students through the library catalog, or by going to our database pages. To access these books from off campus you will need your My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password.

Some Subject terms used in library catalogs

Here are some subject terms used by libraries to describe topics in hospitality and tourism:

          Hospitality industry
               Bars (drinking establishments)
               Convention facilities
               Food Service
                    Bartending
                    Cafeterias
                    Caterers & catering
                    Restaurants
                    Room service
                    Wine service
               Hotels
                    All-suite hotels
                    Bed and breakfast accomodations
                    Hotel chains
                    Hotel lobbies
                    Motels
                    Nonsmoking accomodations
          Tourist trade
               Cruise lines
               Ecotourism
               Package tours
               Sightseeing business
               Sports and tourist trade
               Tourist information centers
               Travel agents
               Visitors, foreign
               Visitors' centers
          Travel
               Air travel
                    Aeronautics, commercial
                    Airlines
                    Airports
               Automobile travel
               Bicycle touring
               Bus travel
               Business travel
               International travel regulations
               Ocean travel
               Pets and travel               
               Travel restrictions
               Youth travel programs

Of course there are many more. You can combine travel key words using the key word search in the catalog. Tourism literature about places usually uses the subdivisions description and travel or guidebooks. Use and to combine words:
                Caribbean and guidebooks
                Nepal and description

Other Sources of Information

For information regarding hospitality and tourism, there is a huge amount of information available on the Internet. Here are some a few sources to try.

Internet Resources

American Hotel and Lodging Association
http://www.ahla.com/
Hot topics, buyer's guide, news, government information, and a career center.
American Society of Travel Agents
http://www.asta.org/p
Cruisemates
http://www.cruisemates.com/
A cruise review database.
Destination Marketing Association International
http://www.destinationmarketing.org/
An organization devoted to improving destination-based marketing
Fodor's
http://www.fodors.com/
The famous guidebook publisher. Tourist information on major destinations through a clickable map.
HospitalityNet
http://www.hospitalitynet.org
A portal for hospitality-industry information. The "Association Update" page provides desriptions and news for many hospitality-related organizations. Also provides industry news, job listings, industry web search, and more.
Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International
http://www.hsmai.org/
National Restaurant Association
http://www.restaurant.org/
Industry news, issues, career information, and more.
Recreation.gov
http://recreation.gov/
Recreation.gov is a U.S. government site that is a "one-stop shop" for access to recreation-related information about government lands.
Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory
http://www.towd.com/
Links to tourism offices for countries and to state tourism sites for the fifty U.S. states.
University of Wisconsin Library Hospitality and Tourism links
http://libguides.uwstout.edu/content.php?pid=17058&sid=115275
A useful collection of resources related to this area.
U.S. Customs traveler information
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/travel/
Travel and customs regulations for U.S. travelers, travel alerts, and more.
U.S. Office of Travel and Tourism Industries
http://www.tinet.ita.doc.gov/
Has market research information,including statistics on U.S. inbound and outbound travel, overseas and Canadian visitors to U.S. cities, etc.
U.S. State Department traveler information
http://travel.state.gov/
Information for foreign citizens traveling to the U.S.A., and U.S. citizens traveling abroad, including visa, passport, and warnings for dangerous destinations.
World Tourism Organization
http://unwto.org/en
The tourism organization of the United Nations.
Worldmapper
http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/
A University of Sheffield site that gives information in map form. See Transport and Tourism in the A-Z listfor interesting travel and tourism-related information.

Citing sources

There are two main styles used for writing papers and citing sources; they are the styles of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Psychological Association (APA). The current editions of these manuals are:

      American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the 
            American Psychological Association (6th ed).  Washington, D.C.: 
            Author.
      MLA Handbook For Writers Of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: 
             Modern Language Association of America, 2009.

You will find these in many libraries. Online guides are available at Online Resources for Writing.

A special guide for citing the electronic resources to which the library subscribes, including Gale databases and netLibrary, is the library's Citing Sources from Online Databases.

To comment or request help, please e-mail Reference or call 503.399.5231.

Address of this page: http://library.chemeketa.edu/information/virtual/tourism.php

Updated 21 March 2013