Library Subject Guides

Hospitality

General Business File International - (online) - indexing to over 2600 journals and full text to overbusiness and management journals, popular business magazines, local area journals, trade journals, and newspapers.  Accesses a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and directory listings with full-text and images available.  Current, plus past 4 years, updated daily and integrated backfiles to 1980. 

Wilson Omnifile Full Text Mega Edition - contains full text articles from 1,650 publications in Wilson databases.

* You may access online databases from off-campus computers by entering your general computer account username and password (used for PSTCC e-mail).  NOTE: Enter your username as s_jmdoe. It is not necessary to add "@pstcc.edu" for this application.

Encyclopedia of Tourism. Jafar Jafari, ed.London: Routledge, 2000.
REF G 155.A1 E4295 2000 A quick reference source to the wide range of basic definitions, concepts, themes, issues, and institutions in the field of tourism.

Webster’s New World Dictionary of Culinary Art, 2nd ed. Steven Labensky, Gaye G. Ingram, Sarah R. Labensky. Upper Saddle
River: Prentice Hall, 2001.  
REF TX 349.L33 2001 A compendium of more than 25,000 entries on topics such as ingredients, preparation methods, restaurant management, wine and wine-making, cooking equipment, and food history.

Bowe’s & Church’s Food Values of Portions Commonly Used, 18th ed. Jean A.T. Pennington. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 2005
REF TX 551.B64 2005 A quick reference of authoritative data on the nutritional values of foods in an easy-to-read format.

Dictionary of Hotels, Tourism, and Catering Management. P.H. Collin. Middlesex: Peter Collin, 1994.
REF TX 905.C64 1994 A dictionary of over 5,000 basic terms used in the hospitality industry.

Elegant Small Hotels. Pamela Lanier. Petaluma: Lanier, 2000.
REF TX 907.2.L364 2000 A guide sorted by state and city of hotels with fewer than 200 guest rooms and a high staff-to-guest ratio.

The Complete Guide to Bed and Breakfast Inns and Guesthouses. Pamela Lanier. Petaluma: Lanier, 2001.
REF TX 907.2.C66 2001 A guide to U.S., Canada, and worldwide inns, bed and breakfasts, and guesthouses that lists availability of meals, prices, ratings, and reservation access.