Literature Guide to the Hospitality Industry

A Literature Guide to the Hospitality Industry is an annotated bibliography of materials with the common theme of hospitality. For the purposes of the Literature Guide, the term hospitality includes the food service, travel, lodging, and tourism industries.

The bibliography is divided into sections by type of material: periodicals, indexes, reference books, statistical sources and databases. Researchers can use the book's chapters as bibliographies within themselves as well as using the indexes for reference to a specific title, author, or subject. The citations of the Literature Guide provide current information for each title, including author, title, place of publication, publisher, and date of publication. A short annotation is provided to give the researcher a quick review of the contents of the work. This volume is suitable for all public libraries, universities, and technical schools offering programs in hotel and restaurant administration or tourism.

PHILIP SAWIN is Assistant Professor and Collection Development Officer at the Library Learning Center of the University of Wisconsin-Stout. He is the coauthor of Bibliographies on Tourism and Related Subjects: An Annotated Source Book.

DENISE MADLAND is Reference/Instruction Librarian at the Library Learning Center of the University of Wisconsin-Stout. She has published several articles on library instruction and prepared a computer-assisted instruction program for library education.

MARY K. RICHARDS is the Head of Cataloging at the Library Learning Center of the University of Wisconsin-Stout. She has published several articles on catalogs and their use.

JANA REEG STEIDINGER is Assistant Professor and the Reference Librarian at the Library Learning Center of the University of Wisconsin-Stout. She has published articles on catalog information and reference collection evaluation.