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

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