Assignment

RTM 404 –Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Tourism

PRINT RESOURCES:

General Reference

Reference Collection by call number/location

Encyclopedia of tourism - G155.A1 E4295 Ref

Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America - GV53.E53 Ref

Dictionary of travel, tourism, and hospitality - G155.A1 M397 1996 Ref

CultureGrams – GT150.C85 Ref

Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life - GN333.W67 Ref

Countries and Their Cultures – GN307.C68 Ref

Kiss, bow, or shake hands - HF5389 .M67 1994 Ref

Do's and taboos around the world - HF5387 .D66 1993 Ref

General Collection

The Catalog (PAC) will allow you to search what books we have on your subject in the main collection (generally the 3rd, 4th and 5th ). Hint: you may want to try a SUBJECT search using some of the subject headings below or try a KEYWORD search on your topic.

Tourism Tourism Environmental Aspects

Ecotourism Internet Marketing

Sustainable Development Hospitality industry -- Management

Tourism -- Management Leisure industry – Management

Within the Catalog you will also have the option of PERIODICAL TITLE search which will tell you where we have a specific journal.

ONLINE RESOURCES - http://library.sdsu.edu

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)

Access to articles across a wide range of academic disciplines with many available in full-text.

Anthropology Plus

Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide coverage of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.

CountryWatch. This database is a goldmine of global information.  Economic, political, social and environmental information can be found here as well as maps, recent wire service stories, and downloadable data sets. A great place to start.

Europa World Plus The online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Europa Regional Surveys of the World series. Renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories.

Passport – GMID (Global Marketing Information Database) Euromonitor International's reports provide business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries – Check Travel Industry and limit by country.

Proquest Research Library

Access to articles across a wide range of academic disciplines. Features the full-text of articles from over 1400 periodicals and indexing for over 2200.

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS – (Scholarly Journals) http://library.sdsu.edu/guides/dbaz.php

From the main Library page click on Databases A-Z choice for the following collections. I would suggest searching under the following journal publishers when searching for ONLY Scholarly Journals.

Emerald Journals

ScienceDirect (Elsevier)

Wiley InterScience

WWW RESOURCES

Hospitality Links at Cornell http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/links/

Google Guide Advanced Searching – google guide cheat sheet http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html

*NOTE: While there is an enormous amount of valuable information on the WWW, there is also a huge quantity of worthless and incorrect information. You need to be able to distinguish between the two.

Citing Your References

Your Online Research Management, Writing and Collaboration Tools

http://library.sdsu.edu/guides/sub2.php?id=258&pg=231

You should feel comfortable contacting Pat Sullivan at [email protected] or Brittany Cronin at [email protected] or calling the Reference Desk at 619-594-6728 if you have any problems with your projects.