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Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism (HRT) Resources

Subject Librarian: Sara Williams, sewilli4@uno.edu, 504.280.7273


Please Note: Resources with UNO are only available to the students, staff, and faculty of the University of New Orleans

1. Business/Hospitality News and Articles

  • Hotel Online
    http://www.hotel-online.com/
    Find the latest news from Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, PR Newswire and Business Wire updated every weekday and archived for 60 days.
  • Hospitality Net
    http://www.hospitalitynet.org
    An online trade publication providing industry news, financial news, market reports, and more.
  • Business Source Premier (EBSCO) UNO
    http://library.uno.edu/database/list/bsp.html
    Provides full text for a number of trade magazines including Nation's Restaurant News, Restaurants and Institutions, Restaurants Business, Hotels, Hotel and Motel Management, Lodging Hospitality, Travel Weekly, Travel Agent, and so fourth.
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic: Business UNO
    http://library.uno.edu/database/list/lab.html
    Business News - Search news/articles from trade publications, industry newspapers, etc. Choose "Business & Finance" to search business and finance news sources and major newspaper stories, "Industry News" for a variety of industry and trade sources on over 50 industries, or "Mergers & Acquisitions" for selected stories from major US and international newspapers, business journals and business wires on corporate mergers and acquisitions.
    Industy & Market - Search sources specific to 28 different industry categories, such as leisure news, food and beverage news, and travel, hospitality and leisure news sources.
  • Regional Business News UNO
    http://library.uno.edu/database/list/rbn.html
    Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States including New Orleans CityBusiness and The Greater Baton Rouge Business Reporter.

2. Academic Indexes and Databases

  • Academic Search Premier UNO
    http://library.uno.edu/database/list/asp.html
    Provides full text for more than 4,000 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,100 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
  • Business Source Premier (EBSCO) UNO
    http://library.uno.edu/database/list/bsp.html
    provides full text for nearly 3,300 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1000 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.
  • Hospitality and Tourism Index (EBSCO) UNO
    hospitality and Tourism Index
    Hospitality & Tourism Index is a bibliographic database covering scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This comprehensive database contains more than 480,000 records from 500 titles, with coverage going back to the mid 1960s.
  • MergentOnline UNO
    http://library.uno.edu/database/list/fiso.html
    Provides financial information on over 10,000 U.S. public companies and 17,000 non-U.S. public companies
  • TourCD / leisuretourism.com UNO
    http://www.leisuretourism.com
    Covers the social, economic, and environmental aspects of tourism and travel activities, products and services compiled from over 280 serials, reports, conference papers and books.
  • Social Science Citation Index (Web of Science) UNO
    http://library.uno.edu/database/list/socs.html
    A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully indexes more than 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals
  • Business Periodicals Index
    HF 1.B87 1980-1996 Reference Index Shelves
    A subject index to over 200 business periodicals covering many business fields. More general in scope than the Index of Economic Articles in Journals and Collective Volumes
  • Wall Street Journal Index
    AI 21 .W27 W276 1955-present Index Shelves
    An index to corporate and general news published in Barron's and the Wall Street Journal. Wall Street journal articles are also indexed in Business Source Premier

3. Food & Beverage Operations

Use subject headings like food service management, restaurant management, restaurants, beverages, alcoholic beverages, and bars when searching the library's online catalog. Periodicals also to be found in Business Source Premier

  • Restaurant Industry Operations Report. National Restaurant Association. Annual.
    TX909 .A1 R47 1997 Reference Shelves
    Provides operating and financial data on the restaurant industry. It is presented by type of restaurant, locations, sales volume, and menu theme. The report also presents operating results as amounts per restaurant seat and as ratios to total sales.

  • Business Development in Licensed Retailing: a Unit Manager's Guide
    TX950.7 .L375 2003 Reference Shelves
  • Hering's Dictionary of Classical and Modern Cookery
    TX 349.H543 1984 Reference Shelves
    Gives names and ingredients (not amounts) of international dishes
  • New York Public Library Catalog of Cookbooks
    TX 651.Z99N42 Reference Shelves
    2 vols., List by subject of the 8000 titles in their collection, 1587-1979
  • The Complete Beverage Dictionary
    TP503 .L56 1996 Reference Shelves
  • Zagat New Orleans Restaurant Survey. Zagat Survey, LLC.
    TX907 .3 .L82 N49 Louisiana Collection
    In contrast to other restaurant guides, Zagat Surveys rate distinct aspects of each restaurant separately (such as food, décor, service, and cost).

  • Nation's Restaurant News
    TX901 .N37 Periodicals Shelves, Multimedia Collection (Microfilm)
  • Restaurant Business
    TX901 .R423 Periodicals Shelves
  • Restaurant Hospitality
    TX901 .F622 Periodicals Shelves
  • National Restaurant Association
    http://www.restaurants.org/
    Provides latest news and industry research
  • Louisiana Restaurant Association
    http://www.lra.org/

4. Convention & Event Management

Use subject headings like special events-planning, meetings-planning, seminars-planning, or congresses and conventions-planning when searching the library's online catalog. Periodicals also to be found in Business Source Premier

5. Tourism

Use the subject headings like tourism and travel when searching the library's online catalog. Periodicals also to be found in Business Source Premier

  • Encyclopedia of Tourism
    G155.A1 E4295 2000 Reference Shelves
  • Dictionary of Hospitality, Travel and Tourism
    G 155.A1M443 1990 Reference Shelves
    In addition to defintions, it also includes addresses for trade associations as well as trade periodicals
  • Tourism and the Travel Industry: An Information Sourcebook
    G 155.Z99E54 Reference Shelves
    An annotated bibliography of citations to yearbooks, handbooks, directories, government publications, journals, trade publications, etc. that contain information on tourism.
  • Travel Weekly
    G155.A1 T78 Periodicals Shelves, Multimedia Collection (Microfilm)
  • Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys: Airlines, Lodging & Gaming
    HD2328 .S74 Reference Index Table A (most recent), Reference Shelves

  • Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    http://www.bts.gov/
    Provides links to statistical reports such as U.S. International Travel and Transportation Trends, Airline On-Time Statistics, and more
  • American Travel Survey
    http://www.bts.gov/programs/ats/
  • Office of Travel and Tourism Industries
    http://www.tinet.ita.doc.gov/
  • National Tour Association
    http://www.ntaonline.com/
  • Travel Industry Association of America
    http://www.tia.org/

6. Hotel & Lodging Management

Use subject headings like hotels, motels, hotel management, motel management, hospitality management, bed and breakfast accomodations, etc. Periodicals also to be found in Business Source Premier

  • American Lodging Excellence: the Key to Best Practices in the U.S. Lodging Industry
    TX911.3.M27 D83 1999 Reference Shelves
  • Hotel and Restaurant Industries
    TX905 .Z99 N59 1993 Reference Shelves
  • Hotel and Motel Management
    TX901 .H62 Periodicals Shelves
  • Lodging Hospitality
    TX901 .A5 Periodicals Shelves
  • Plunkett's Airline, Hotel, and Travel Industry Almanac
    Full Text available in Business Source Premier. Browse Publications to find major trends, travel statistics, contacts, and 300 important individuals in the industry
  • Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys: Lodging & Gaming
    HD2328 .S74 Reference Index Table A (most recent), Reference Shelves
  • National Lodging Forecast. Ernst & Young. Annual.
    http://www.hotel-online.com/News/PR2002_1st/Feb02_EYNationalReport.html
    Forecasts trends in the U.S. lodging industry for the coming year. Included in the report is an outlook on the U.S. economy and the U.S. hotel industry, segment reports (luxury, first class, upscale, mid-scale, economy, and resort), industry trends, and profiles of selected U.S. hotel markets.

  • American Hotel and Lodging Association
    http://www.ahma.com/
  • Hotel and Catering International Management Association
    http://hcima.org.uk/
  • International Hotel and Restaurant Association
    http://www.ih-ra.com/

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