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EBSCO eBooks Collection

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Full-text access to hundreds of e-books published by various publishers and made available via EBSCO. The platform enables full text searching within a particular e-book or across titles, a selection of tools to assist users to navigate, annotate, bookmark and save searches for future use.

Concurrent users: 1

Encyclopedia of Tourism

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This encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and updated source of reference in tourism research and practice. It covers both traditional and emerging concepts and terms and is fully international in its scope. More than 700 contributions of 766 internationally renowned experts from 113 countries provide a definitive access to the knowledge in the field of tourism, hospitality, recreation and related fields. All actors in this field will find reliable and up to date definitions and explanations of the key terms of tourism in this reference work. Tourism is the largest industry worldwide and is the main source of income for many countries. With both, this practical impact of tourism and a rapidly developing academic field, with a growing number of university courses and degrees in tourism, and a flourishing research, this encyclopedia is the epicenter of this emerging and developing discipline.  

Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing

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The Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing is, quite simply, the definitive reference work in the field. Carefully curated by leading tourism scholar Dimitrios Buhalis, this is the largest tourism management and marketing ontology that has ever been put together and offers a holistic examination of this interdisciplinary field. New entries will be added every month and PDF downloads will be available once the Encyclopedia is complete.

New entries will continue to be added to the encyclopedia each month. Once all the entries are online, the option to download them as PDF files will become available.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

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Full-text access to a collection of 20 e-books published by various publishers and made available via Gale Virtual Reference Library. With ReadSpeaker technology, the platform allows text to be read aloud to users and downloaded in MP3 format. The platform also provides tool for user to have on-demand content translation into 19 languages.

Concurrent users: Unlimited

iG eBooks Library

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Full-text access to a collection over 3900 e-books published by the world’s leading academic and professional publishers in the area of tourism, hospitality and catering, humanities, health science, language, business and management, etc.

Concurrent users: Unlimited.

Open Access Library

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OALib is currently hosting links and metadata to more than 4,232,777 open access articles covering a wide range of academic disciplines. All full text articles from your search results are free to download.

ProQuest Ebooks

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Full-text access to thousands of e-books published from various publishers.

SpringerOpen (Open Access)

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SpringerOpen is Springer's portfolio of fully open access journals and books, covering all areas of science. The entire content published with SpringerOpen is freely accessible online immediately upon publication. SpringerOpen views open access to research as essential in order to ensure the rapid and efficient communication of research findings.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

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Full-text access to a collection of 40 e-books published by renowned imprints such as Routledge. Unlike many of our eBook platforms, most titles on this site can be downloaded to the user's device as a PDF copy of the full book.
Concurrent users: Unlimited

UNESDOC Digital Library

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The UNESCO Digital Library is the repository of UNESCO’s institutional memory and a source of high-quality information on UNESCO activities (in education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and communication and information), with more than 350,000 documents dating back to 1945. It includes the collections of the UNESCO Library and several documentation centres in UNESCO’s Field Offices and Institutes, as well as the UNESCO Archives. The essential purpose of the UNESCO Digital Library is to share knowledge and to transmit it to future generations.

Our collections include:

- UNESCO publications

- UNESCO-sponsored publications

- Speeches of the Director-General from 1970 to present

- Documents of UNESCO’s Governing Bodies

- Publications of interest to UNESCO

UNWTO eLibrary

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The UNWTO Elibrary is an information source offering an unparalleled coverage of research and information in the area of tourism . The subject areas reflect all important themes moving the tourism sector and include, among other, ecotourism, sustainable development, finance and investment, risk and crisis management, market research, tourism statistics and poverty alleviation. The UNWTO Elibrary contains books, journals and statistical reports by country and by indicator.

UNWTO Elibrary includes more than 1245 publications on tourism - the biggest collection of publication in the field of travel and tourism - and 900 tables with:

  • The most up-to-date UNWTO statistics on inbound and outbound tourism and other indicators.

  • For more than 200 countries and territories.

In January 2016, IFTM Library has become the first World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Depository Library in Macao.

Launched by UNWTO in 2003, the Depository Library programme aims to foster the access to the research analysis and eports which are published by UNWTO with public audience. Till now, there are approximately 60 libraries in 30 countries and regions having joined the programme and been included as the depository libraries, and IFTM Library has been the 1st depository library in Hong Kong and Macao. From 2016 onwards, IFTM Library will receive UNWTO’s all English official publications and make them accessible to the public, in order to provide more abundant and complete tourism related information and to support research in tourism related areas for Macao and neignbouring regions.