About Leisure Tourism Database

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Your information destination

As with any quest for research information, it’s about sourcing the information that’s important to you. With Leisure Tourism Database you will have the perfect tool to identify and explore the information most relevant to your research.

Leisure Tourism Database gives rapid access to leisure, recreation, tourism and hospitality research. The site hosts information that maps and mirrors the latest research developments in key areas of the industry – giving the content a real research currency.

Searching the literature

Subscribers to Leisure Tourism Database will be in the unique position of being able to search the literature in their field through CABI’s abstracting and indexing database:

• Search the global information literature – with records gathered from all over the world.
• Up-front, rapid and easy access to over 84,000 research abstracts from the last 30 years of research
• All relevant papers taken from over 6000 serial publications and thousands of other documents scanned each year by CABI Publishing, including all the core leisure and tourism journals
• Use an intuitive and flexible search-and-retrieval interface – with the option to link directly to full text articles
• Database guidance documents for effective tips to searching the database (database guide, abstracts guide, and serials cited guide)
• Ease of exploring the full depths of the content through 6 broad subject areas – with the option of further subject breakdowns

The detail and the big picture

• With In Brief and In Depth articles, Leisure Tourism Database focuses in on the events that shape your research.
• An eclectic collation of article types including news, spotlights and analysis of specific subjects, and meeting reports
• All articles are written by authoritative sources and are tagged to broad subject areas for ease of retrieval
• Article archive facility gives users a way to get to grips with the research background
• Many articles are fully referenced, with direct linkage through to the abstracts database – giving a smooth passage to further research exploration
• All articles receive a brief background summary and can be selected by date or subject
• Key words supplied by editors help users to locate and link directly through to relevant abstracts on the database

In touch with your field

• A regularly updated calendar lists conferences and events from around the world
• Categorised links section puts you in touch with relevant web content in
your field
• Site search tool allows both entire and exclusive site searches
  

Covering your field

• Leisure Tourism Database has information on all aspects of leisure, tourism, recreation and hospitality – here are the key subject areas
• Leisure and tourism policies
• Tourism and leisure industries
• Travel and transport
• Facility management and planning
• Recreation, cultural, entertainment and sporting activities
• Sport sociology and economics
• Sociology and behaviour
• Education and training
• Community development
• Ecotourism, natural resources and the environment
• Hospitality industry

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