Hospitality Management

Subject guide

This NSI Libraries online subject guide provides links to information available on the web. Some resources require a DEC username and password. Don’t know your DEC username and password? Contact your Campus Student Administration or your teacher.

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Subject web links

 

Associations and organisations

Accommodation Association of Australia

Australian Gaming Council

Australian Hotels Association

Clubs NSW

Hospitality net

Savewater

A website that provides information about saving water in the hospitality industry.

 

Links     

AGFG - Australian good food & travel guide

Australian restaurants and food

Business culture guides

EcoLodgical

Internet tool specifically designed to assist the hospitality industry have an environmental perspective.

Ehotelier

Global hospitality industry website.

Hazard analysis & critical control point (HACCP)

Hospitality magazine

RDA design group

This website provides ideas for designing and planning facilities such as restaurants, hotels, commercial kitchens.

Tourism and hospitality

TAFE Studylinks

Worldwide hospitality resource sites

Comprehensive site with links to a number of hospitality areas, including travel & tourism, cookery and food & beverage.


Portals and directories

Australian hospitality directory

Hotels and resorts industry research in Australia

 

Government information & statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

Includes statistics and some analysis of information from the National Census and other sources. Allows for the creation of local area profiles.

Catalogue numbers:

1220.0 - ANZSCO - Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations 2009

8655.0 - Cafes, restaurants and catering services, Australia, 2006-07

Fair Work Australia - Hospitality Industry (General) Award 2010

Green skills (NSW business guide)
Green skills enable hospitality employees to protect or improve the environment.

Industrial relations (Retail trading in NSW)

NSW IR's primary responsibilities are to monitor wages, employment rights, obligations and employment conditions in NSW including retail trading.

NSW Office of Liquor Gaming & Racing

WorkCover authority of NSW

Publishes a range of publications relating to work safety.

Legislation and standards


Apprenticeship and traineeship Act 2001 (NSW)

Australasian Legal Information Institute (Austlii)

Austlii provides free access to Australian legal information including legislation and law journals.

AS/NZS 3905.3:1994 Guidelines for the hospitality industry

Full-text access only available in your NSI Library (For downloads USB drive required) - contact your librarian

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ)

Liquor Act 2007

Work health and safety Act 2011 (NSW)

 

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   eJournals, eBooks & other eResources

   

eJournals

Freely available ejournals

EBSCOhost

Click the link of one of the selected journals or databases. Log in using your DEC username and password.

Business Source Complete

Hospitality & Tourism Complete

 

Gale Cengage Learning

Click the link to the Gale database or one of the selected journals. Log in using your DEC username and password.

 

Proquest Central

Click the link to ProQuest or one of the selected journals. Log in using your DEC username and password.

        

eBooks

Gale databases

Log on to Gale databases or of one of the eBooks. Log in using your DEC username and password.

eBooks in EBSCOHOST

Click the link to eBooks on EBSCOhost or one of the examples and log in using your DEC username and password

eReference

Log in using your DEC username and password with @edu at the end of your username. Once you have logged into the database, do a keyword search or click on links to biographies, subject entries, images or links to reference works.

Oxford Reference Online

• A Dictionary of Business and Management

• A Dictionary of Human Resource Management

• A Dictionary of Marketing

 

Training toolbox (Australian National Training Authority)

Click on 'URL' at the end of the description to access these training packages which contain tutorials, quizzes and resources for your course. From home, log in using your DEC username and password. You can view or download these resources. CD-ROMs of the packages may be available at your TAFE NSW library.

 

Online videos

vLearn

Login to vLearn via Equella or the listed videos using your DEC username and password

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   Databases covering Hospitality Management subjects

Here is a selection of subject specific databases provided. For the full list of general databases and regarding instructions go to the eResources Portal.

Name Description Access
ABS

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) website. Includes statistics and some analysis of information from the National Census and other sources. Allows for the creation of local area profiles.

http://www.abs.gov.au/

Freely available

Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.The database is updated daily.

DEC username and password required.

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre - EBSCO's searchable database provides full text, and index access to many local and international magazines, newspapers and reference books. Most general subjects are covered.

DEC username and password required.

 

Business Source Complete

Business Source Complete (BSC) is a business research database, providing full text a large number of journals. Coverage is provided in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.

DEC username and password required.

Gale databases provide access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics. The sub-collection General OneFile includes over 6,300 full-text titles and 400 newspaper services (a total of more than 11,000 titles). Also included in the subscription are the Culinary Arts Collection and Tourism, Hospitality & Leisure Collection.

DEC username and password required.

Hospitality & Tourism Complete (HTC) covers research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This collection contains more than 700,000 records, with coverage dating as far back as 1965. Full text is available for more than 440 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books.

DEC username and password required.

MarketLine Advantage offers a comprehensive collection of business profiles such as:

  • 31,000+ company profiles incl. 2,700+ SWOT
  • 6,500+ industry profiles incl. Porters Five Forces scorecards e.g. Hotels and motels in Australia
  • 100+ country profiles
  • 80+ up-to-date case studies  

It also gives you access to country statistics, market data analytics, financial deals (monthly) and company financials & top ten industry players guide as well as news and opinions (live feed).

Students: use your DEC username and password with @edu at the end of the username (e.g. john.smith@edu).

Staff: use your DEC username and password with @det at the end of the username (eg john.smith@det).

ProQuest Central provides access to a set of databases containing more than 125 billion digital pages covering arts, literature, social science, general reference, business, science, technology, and medicine. ProQuest includes the world's largest digital newspaper archive including ANZ Newsstand and periodical databases comprising the output of more than 9,000 titles.

DEC username and password required.

TVNews via Equella

TVNews indexes and abstracts Australian news items, current affairs and documentaries from free-to-air networks since 2007. You can download video content straight to your desktop or flash drive. Most programs are available the next working day. Coverage includes: Australian story, Behind the news, 60 minutes, Four corners, Lateline, Global Village and all the major news broadcasts.

DEC username and password required.

vLearn via Equella

160+ vLearn videos are now available via Equella.
Subject areas covered are business, career development, hospitality & food services, anatomy, beauty services, child studies, customer service, English language, health & safety, history, HRM, nursing, nutrition, sport & recreation, tourism and more.

Only for NSI students & staff.

DEC username and password required.

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   Catalogue

The NSW TAFE Library catalogue lists all the resources held in NSW TAFE libraries. You can search by keyword, author, title and subject and also limit searches to specific types of materials and specific college libraries. The catalogue has links to, and the addresses and contact details of, all individual NSW TAFE Libraries.

Subject headings

Catalogue links to some hospitality management subjects and availability through NSI Libraries are listed below. Please note: the search results are limited to items available in NSI Libraries. Do a new search if you want to find items held by your local library or to get results for all TAFE NSW Libraries.

 

 

Business report writing

Industrial hygiene -- Australia

 

Food service--Safety measures

Industrial relations -- Australia

 

Hospitality industry -- Accounting

Inventory control

 

Hospitality industry -- Australia -- Management

New business enterprises -- Finance

 

Hospitality industry -- Marketing

Performance -- Management

 

Hospitality industry -- Personnel management

Risk management

 

Hotel management

 

 

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Last updated: 02.05.2013