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Recreation, Park & Tourism Management Research Guide
Written by Diane Zabel

See Also Hospitality Management Research Guide

Search for recent books by combining the suggested search terms with a date range of the last two years. Also, narrow results by combining with terms such as management, women, children, aged.

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Sample subjects in the CAT:

  • Ecotourism
Recreation
Golf Recreation Areas
Golf Course (or Courses) Recreation Leadership
Handicapped Recreation Recreation and State
Leisure (or Leisurability) Recreation Surveys
Leisure Industry
  • Recreational Therapy
National Parks and Reserves Skis and Skiing
  • Natural Area Management
Sports Organization and Administration
Outdoor Recreation Tourism
Parks Wilderness Areas
Playgrounds    

Databases

Articles

Lexis/Nexis Academic

News: full-text regional, national and international newspapers, magazines and trade journals
Business Resources: full-text business news, company and industry information, SEC filings, and accounting literature
Legal Resources: full-text federal and state case opinions, law reviews, legal news, European Union legislation, tax law, and patents

CAB Abstracts

Plant sciences, animal sciences, entomology, soils and fertilizers
Forestry, agricultural economics, nutrition, and agricultural engineering
Rural recreation & tourism

Education Abstracts full text

Covers more than 600 core periodicals relating to education
Indexes articles from 1983 forward and full-text is available for many articles published from 1994 to the present

LegalTrac

Find articles relating to the legal aspects of recreation management
Some articles are full-text

PubMed

A service of the National Library of Medicine, it indexes more than 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950s
Use this datababase to locate articles relating to therapeutic recreation

ProQuest

Search for newspaper, magazine and journal articles. Many full-text
Includes the following business databases: ABI/Inform Global, ABI/Inform Trade & Industry and ABI/Inform Dateline

PsycINFO

Psychology and related aspects of: Organizational management, Marketing and Sociology

Social Sciences Abstracts

Citations to articles about leisure and recreation that have been published in a broad array of social sciences journals are available

Sociological Abstracts

Contains materials relating to the sociology of leisure

Sports Business Resource Network (SBRnet)

  • Sporting goods
Sports marketing
Market research reports
Industry statistics
Consumer expenditures

Web/Print Resources

Guides & Handbooks

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Company Information

Industry Information

Specialized Sources of Data

Selected Websites

Selected Journals & Newsletters

Other Useful Links

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