Explore different resources available for your subject area
In this section, you will find essential resources available for the subject area of Tourism and Hospitality as well as Events. You can locate print books and have access to electronic books, journal articles, and databases. In order to access electronic books, journals, and databases you will need to use your institutional login. There is also a range of open access resources freely available online.
Tourism, Hospitality and Events Key Subscription Resources
We subscribe to various resources for your wider reading and research. Most important ones for your subject areas are listed here, but many more are also available in Library Search.
BOB is an academically-focused database of television and radio programmes which allows you to watch programmes from over 75 free-to-air channels; you can also access its archive containing over 3 million broadcasts.
Cite them right: the essential referencing guide
Cite Them Right is an online platform designed to advise students on how to do Harvard referencing correctly. Based on the best-selling book by Richard Pears and Graham Shields, this programme is trusted by institutions globally, and accessed by thousands of students daily.
Euromonitor Passport (Euromonitor International Market Research Monitor)
Global market analysis software platform, which analyses key industries in countries around the world. This online market research tool also monitors industry trends and provides strategic analysis and a market size and market share database for key industries and sectors in over 220 countries.
IBISWorld provides industry intelligence that analyses the environment of over 400 UK industries using the five-digit level of the UK Standard Industrial Classification (UKSIC). Each industry report provides detailed performance data and analysis on the market, supply chain, operating strengths and weaknesses, external drivers, major player market strategies, industry profit and cost structure benchmarks.
Institute of Hospitality (direct access, not in Library Search)
The Institute of Hospitality is the professional body for managers and aspiring managers working and studying in the hospitality, leisure and tourism industry. Please contact us for the institutional username and password which will allow you to log in and register.
Lexis+ UK includes annotated legislation, cases, forms, precedents and commentary. It includes Halsburys Laws, ICLR Law Reports, UK Acts, Statutory Instruments, the Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents, definitions of legal terms, over 80 leading journals.
International company profiles are provided by Marketline.
WGSN is the global authority on change, using expert trend forecasting combined with data science to help you get ahead of the right trends (personal account setup required using your @sunderland.ac.uk email address).
Tourism, Hospitality and Events Open Acces Resources
Open Access means, anyone from anywhere in the world can read something without paying, even if they are not a university member. Consequently, even after you graduate, you can use these resources.
Association of Events Organisers
AEO is the trade body representing companies which conceive, create, develop or manage trade and consumer events. AEO has two sister associations, AEV and ESSA, whose members come from the event venue and supplier communities. AEO works in partnership with its sister associations on a number of initiatives including research, cross association working groups and lobbying.
Business Visits and Events Partnership
BVEP is an umbrella organisation representing leading trade and professional organisations, government agencies and other significant influencers in the business visits and events sector. BVEP’s vision is to support sustainable growth for the United Kingdom’s Events Industry.
Conference of the Parties (COP)
Annual summit attended by the countries that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Information on the European Commission policies and actions on challenges facing tourism in the European Union. Sections include: support to tourism businesses, promoting Europe as a destination, international cooperation, the Tourism Business Portal, and the EDEN (European Destinations of Excellence) project.
Glastonbury Festival is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world and a template for all the festivals that have come after it.
The London Fashion Week digital platform is freely accessible to everyone, showcasing digital content from the designers, enabling collaboration and bringing together fashion, culture and technology.
Milan Fashion Week is organised by The National Chamber for Italian Fashion, which coordinates and promotes the development of Italian fashion.
The official website for New York Fashion Week, including exclusive designer content and seasonal schedules.
This is the official website of the Olympic Games. Find all past and future Olympics, Youth Olympics, sports, athletes, medals, results, IOC news, photos and videos. see https://www.olympic.org/london-2012 for the London Olympics in 2012.
The Committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development analyses and monitors policies and structural changes affecting the development of domestic and international tourism, providing policy-makers with concrete analysis of key challenges and policy responses that will shape tourism in the future.
Office for National Statistics
The Office for National Statistics is the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics and is responsible for collecting and publishing statistics related to the economy, population and society at national, regional and local levels.
National Statistics Online or Office for National Statistics
The Office for National Statistics is the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics and is responsible for collecting and publishing statistics related to the economy, population and society at national, regional and local levels.
This is the official website of the Olympic Games. Find all past and future Olympics, Youth Olympics, sports, athletes, medals, results, IOC news, photos and videos. see https://www.olympic.org/london-2012 for the London Olympics in 2012.
The official Paris Fashion Week platform, includes schedules, videos of collections and exclusive articles.
The Tourism Alliance seeks to establish and maintain a favourable operating environment for all businesses involved in the delivery of tourism, particularly in England. Their main purpose is to lobby government both in England and Brussels on the key strategic issues facing the industry.
The Tourism Society is the professional membership body for people working in all sectors of the visitor economy. It is where individuals from across all sectors of the Visitor Economy come together (online and offline) for discussion, debate, to share views and knowledge, and to network.
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is the United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism. It is a global forum for tourism policy issues and a practical source of tourism know-how.
UK Hospitality is the leading hospitality trade association UK and represents the interests of the UK's hospitality sector covering everything from bars, hotels, coffee shops, contract catering, nightclubs, visitor attraction, escape rooms, bowling alleys, independent and large multi-national sites.
The World Tourism Organization E-library is an online service containing books, journals and statistical reports by country and by indicator on the subject areas of ecotourism, sustainable development, finance and investment, risk and crisis management, market research, tourism statistics and poverty alleviation.
A non-departmental public body funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, VisitBritain publishes many reports that provide statistics and data on many aspects of tourism in Britain such as inbound tourism, sector research, consumer behavior, business research, and more.
Please note, as the resources above are not provided or subscribed to by the University, we are not able to guarantee continuity of access. Please contact us if a resource is not accessible anymore and we will remove the link.
Tourism, Hospitality and Events Study and Exam Skills
Developing a range of academic skills is an essential part of ensuring success in your studies and future employment. Explore our Study Skills section and book an online appointment if you require support.
If you are taking exams, follow the steps below for success.
Before the exam:
- Well before the exam, make sure you clearly mark the date, time and venue of the exam in your diary or calendar
- Make sure you know in plenty of time before the exam what is expected of you and prepare accordingly
- Try and get a good night’s sleep the night before the exam
- On the day, make sure you arrive at the right place and in plenty of time
- Think positively; this is an opportunity to demonstrate what you have been learning
- Have a clear strategy for tackling the exam paper
During the exam:
- Be sure to write your name and/or exam number on all of your answer sheets
- Check the back of the exam paper for important information or instructions
- Scan the paper for questions that you feel you can confidently answer and mark them
- Read the questions all the way through before starting
- Tackle your best question first as this will help you get started
- Make a brief plan for any essay type question before you begin
- Make a note of any new thoughts that occur whilst writing
- Make sure you answer all the questions you need to
- Allow yourself plenty of time to answer each question - try and stick to the times you have allocated to yourself to answer each question during the exam
- Manage your time well so that you can answer as many questions as possible
- Give equal time to questions that carry equal marks, and more time to any that carry extra marks
- Try to give reasonable answers to the given number of questions
- It is better to at least make an attempt at answering all the questions than spending all your time on one question and completely miss out on answering other questions
- If you run out of time you have allocated for one of your answers, then leave a space so that you can return to it later
- Do not write everything you know about a topic but answer the specifics of each question
Remember, examiners are interested in how you:
- Make sense of the question
- Relate it to the course
- Develop a line of reasoning
- Evaluate opposing viewpoints
- Offer evidence that supports your argument