Leisure Tourism ***

CAB Direct (CABI's own platform)

The Leisure Tourism internet resource contains:

• Over 196,000 research summaries covering the last 40 years, sourced from over 6,000 serial publications, plus books, reports and conference proceedings
• Weekly updates with over 10,000 new records added in the last year
• Literature from over 84 countries
• Over 10,000 full text records
• Over 2,650 eBooks and chapters
• Over 4,400 news and research updates

* Figures correct as at February 2019

Coverage includes:

Arts and entertainment

• art galleries, exhibitions
• concerts, music and dance
• cultural industry
• employment
• home and neighbourhood activities ( hobbies, games, radio and television, reading and learning)
• marketing
• museums, displays and historic buildings
• policy economics and management (access programmes, participation aspects, funding and sponsorship)
• popular culture (culinary heritage, shopping) 
• sociology and psychology of participation and the impact on cultural life
• theatre, cinemas and drama
• urban regeneration through arts and culture projects

Leisure and recreation

• health clubs and leisure centres
• libraries
• open spaces
• playgrounds
• public swimming pools
• urban parks and gardens
• urban regeneration through leisure projects

Tourism

All types of tourism are covered including:

• adventure tourism
• business tourism
• cultural tourism
• dark tourism
• eco-tourism
• farm tourism
• sport tourism
• sex tourism
• tourism packages

Tourism policy and management including:

• accommodation
• consumer behaviour, decision making and motivation
• destinations and resorts
• education, training and employment
• hotel and hospitality industries
• impact of information and communication technology (e-commerce)
• impacts of tourism on the environment and sustainability resources (sustainability issues, national parks, wilderness areas etc.)
• marketing, advertising and market analysis
• participation issues
• restaurants and bars
• sociology of tourism
• statistics
• tour operators and travel agents
• tourist attractions
• transport
• travel medicine (disease transmission and control)

Sport

All sports (including athletics, ball games, motor sports, winter sports etc.)

• arena design and management
• economics of sport
• education, training and employment ( including physical education)
• impact of sport mega-events (e.g. The Olympic Games)- marketing
• injury epidemiology, health and safety management
• nature conservation, environmental impacts and sustainability issues
• organizations and clubs
• outdoor activities (walking, camping, climbing)
• participation management (including hooliganism)
• spectatorship
• sponsorship
• sport psychology (e.g. emotional management, motivation, ethics, eating disorders)
• statistics
• studies investigating the health benefits of sport / exercise (on the elderly, children, handicapped persons) and therapeutic recreation
• use of drugs in sports (if applied to the policy of sport organizations or sport management)

who uses the Leisure Tourism database?

Researchers working in academic and corporate organizations / Students / Teachers and trainers / Consultants and advisors / Industry professionals / Decision makers in Associations and Government Departments

what do they have to say about it?

"This data contributes the largest amount of records extracted from a wide range of academic/scholarly journals in one place relating to hospitality, leisure, tourism and recreation"
Lutishoor Salisbury, University of Arkansas

"I am now using 'Leisure Tourism' for my own teaching and research on an almost daily basis. I continue to be impressed both with the quality of the contents and with the sheer volume of materials now included"
Dr. Brian Gorrod, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

"Global tourism headlines address the key issues in the industry. More in-depth features on subjects such as ecotourism are fruitful research tools for travel and leisure students"
Review by the BBC Learning for Adults website

"Having not used your database for a while I did a search this morning and have been pleasantly surprised - a good number of relevant results came up - so I will be making this my first port of call again for leisure and tourism queries"
Manjeev Dhillon, Birmingham College of Food and Tourism, UK

"...valuable to academic libraries with hospitality or receration programmes...Recommended"
J.C Tucker, University of Nevada, USA in CHOICE October 2008, Vol. 46, No.2

Subscribe to the Leisure Tourism database and benefit from:

up-to-the-minute access to research developments in leisure, recreation, sport, hospitality, tourism and culture
incisive overviews of critical topics news reports on scientific, business and political issues affecting you

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