Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Abstracts

Overview

Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Abstracts is a printed abstracts database of internationally published research, derived from CAB Abstracts that brings together information for those interested in the study and strategic development of leisure, recreation, sport, tourism, cultural and hospitality activities, facilities, products and services.

An enhanced online version is available through the internet resource LeisureTourism which includes a fully searchable 38-year backfile of over 111,000 abstracts, with approximately 9,000 new records added each year.

Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Abstracts is available quarterly in print. Pricing structures are available for subscribers who wish to have both this print abstract journal and the internet resource, LeisureTourism.

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Coverage
 

Tourism

• All types of tourism are covered including:
  • • Adventure tourism
    • Dark tourism
    • Eco-tourism
    • Sport tourism
    • Sex tourism
    • Tourism packages
    • Cultural tourism
    • Business tourism
    • Farm tourism 

• Tourism policy and management
  including marketing, advertising and market analysis 
• Statistics
• Education, training and employment
• Participation issues
• Impacts of tourism on the environment and sustainability resources (sustainability issues, national parks, wilderness areas etc.)
• Sociology of tourism
• Consumer behaviour, decision making and motivation
• Tour operators and travel agents
• Destinations and resorts
• Tourist attractions
• Accommodation
• Restaurants and bars
• Hotel and hospitality industries
• Transport
• Travel medicine (disease transmission and control)
• Impact of information and communication technology (e-commerce)
   

Leisure and recreation 

• Health clubs and leisure centres
• Libraries
• Open spaces
• Playgrounds
• Public swimming pools
• Urban parks and gardens
• Urban regeneration through leisure projects

Sport

• All sports (including athletics, ball games, motor sports, winter sports etc.)
• Spectatorship
• Arena design and management
• Participation management (including hooliganism)
• Organizations and clubs
• Statistics
• Sponsorship
• Marketing
• Economics of sport
• Education, training and employment ( including physical education)
• Nature conservation, environmental impacts and sustainability issues
• Outdoor activities (walking, camping, climbing)
• Use of drugs in sports (if applied to the policy of sport organizations or sport management)
• Studies investigating the health benefits of sport / exercise (on the elderly, children, handicapped persons) and therapeutic recreation
• Injury epidemiology, health and safety management
• Sport psychology (e.g. emotional management, motivation, ethics, eating disorders)
• Impact of sport mega-events (e.g. The Olympic Games)
   

Arts and Entertainment

• Policy economics and management (access programmes, participation aspects, funding and sponsorship)
• Sociology and psychology of participation and the impact on cultural life
• Employment 
• Marketing
• Cultural industry
• Art galleries, exhibitions
• Concerts, music and dance
• Theatre, cinemas and drama
• Museums, displays and historic buildings
• Popular culture (culinary heritage, shopping) 
• Urban regeneration through arts and culture projects
• Home and neighbourhood activities ( hobbies, games, radio and television, reading and learning)

Updates to this list are produced monthly. Designation of Open Access publications are currently available in the downloadable version.

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