Intute Tourism Resources

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Intute Tourism Resources

• Internet for Business and Tourism Seminar

Theresa Summerfield University of Birmingham
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Travel and Tourism

• Finding resources
• Subject scope
• Related sections
• Additional services
• Participation

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How do we work?

• Strong community links
• Source sites
• Evaluation process
• Tailored descriptions
• Review resources

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How is this useful?

• Quality assurance
• Subject relevance
• Reference tool
• Current awareness

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Tourism content provision

• University of Birmingham (UoB)
• Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative
  Studies (BCFTCS)
• Sheffield Hallam University (SHU)

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Tourism scope
Curriculum areas
Topical subjects

• Accommodation
• Destination planning
• Impacts of tourism
• Tourism operations
• Passenger transportation
• Tourism technology
• Tourism marketing
• Tourism policy, planning and development
• Sustainable tourism
• Tourism management

• Dark tourism
• Adventure tourism
• Sports tourism
• Health tourism

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Popular sections

• Tourism statistics
• Leisure attractions
• Travel guides
• Eco tourism

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Related sections

• Geography (Intute Science, engineering and
  Technology
• Leisure, heritage (Intute Arts and Humanities)
• Coastal tourism, wildlife and nature tourism
  (Intute Health and Life Sciences)

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Examples of resources

• Commercial sites leisure attractions, travel
  guides, tourist companies
• Statistical sites
• Full text articles reports
• Government departments
• Educational institutions
• Bibliographical databases

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Current awareness

• RSS news feeds
• Jobs
• Conferences and events
• Blog

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Browsing
Latest resources updated daily
Click on a heading to view sub-headings
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Record display
Filter
Sort
View full record
Recommended
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Searching
Harvester
Thesaurus
Specify a field, subject or resource type
Sort results
Tailor results display
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Get involved

• Suggest a site
• Register for MyIntute
• Embed Intute in your own website
• Feedback

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Also recommended

• Intute Science, Engineering and Technology World
  Guide
• http//www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/worldguide/
• Intute Virtual Training Suite (VTS)
• http//www.vts.intute.ac.uk/tutorial/travel

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Contact

Theresa Summerfield t.a.summerfield_at_bham.ac.uk
0121 414 3409