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Last update: Nov 23rd, 2009 URL: http://libguides.gwu.edu/tourism  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Books

  • World Tourism Organization E-Library  
    This provides the full text of WTO documents
  • World Bank e-Library  
    "...an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 4,000 World Bank documents. The collections consists of over 1,600 World Bank publications and over 2,400 Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published. "See also www.worldbank.org for additional access to free WorldBank publications."

Encyclopedias

 

Databases

  • Leisuretourism  
    1976-
    Indexes hospitality, leisure, recreation, sport, tourism, and cultural industries literature, including books, chapters within books, and periodical articles. To get to the advanced search screen, click on seach, then on abstracts database, and finally on advanced search.

Statistics

  • World Tourism Organization Factbook  
    This provides tables of statistics. Click on Tourism Factbook on the left.
  • World Travel and Tourism Council  
    Under Economic Research, one can retrieve statistics on the travel and tourism industry in regions of the world and countries. Under Media Centre, one can retrieve press releases.
  • US Travel Association  
    The library has a premier membership to the association and thus has access to a potpourri of U.S.statistics. Go to the members only section. The user id and password are available to current students, faculty, and staff of George Washingto University upon request from the library.
  • Travel Industry Association of America  
    This home page provides statistics under "Research" and information on relevant public policy issues. There are links to other sites.
  • Compendium of Tourism Statistics  
    Annual 1983-
    Location: REF G 155. A1 T5896 (Earlier editions in the stacks)
    Published by the World Tourism Organization, this "provide[s] in condensed form the basic statistical series on national and international tourism supply and demand in the various countries and regions of the world."
  • Yearbook of Tourism Statistics  
    Annual 1988-
    Location: G 149. I73
  • Travel Industry World Yearbook  
    Annual 1983-1986, 1989-
    Location: G 155. A1 B54
 
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