Hospitality & Tourism Management

Five centuries of primary source material documenting the story of food and drink. Module One includes printed and manuscript cookbooks, advertising ephemera, government documents, marketing reports, films and illustrated content reflecting reflect a wide range of food cultures and traditions. Coverage 1540-1980.

Accounts of The Grand Tour from about 1550 to 1850 highlight the influence of continental travel on British art, architecture, urban planning, literature and philosophy. Documents include manuscript, visual, and printed works such as letters, diaries, journals, account books, printed guidebooks, published travel writing, paintings and sketches, architectural drawings, and maps. Topics covered include transportation; money; communications; food and drink; health and sex; European political and religious life; British diplomacy; life at court; social customs on the Continent; and Europe’s urban spaces such as Paris, Rome, Florence, and Geneva. Information on the cities includes written accounts and visual representations of street life, architecture and urban planning.

A multinational journey through well-known, little-known and far-flung destinations unlocked for the average traveler between 1850 and the 1980s. Guidebooks and brochures, periodicals, travel agency correspondence, photographs and personal travel journals provide unique insight into the expansion, accessibility and affordability of tourism for the masses and the evolution of some of the most successful travel agencies in the world.

Manuscripts of some of the most important works of European travel writing from the later medieval period, with the chief focus on journeys to central Asia and the Far East, including accounts of travel to Mongolia, Persia, India, China, and South-East Asia. Includes works by Marco Polo, "Sir John Mandeville," John of Plano Carpini, and Odoric of Pordenone.

Includes hundreds of accounts by women of their travels across the globe from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Topics covered include architecture, art, the British Empire, climate, customs, exploration, family life, housing, industry, language, monuments, mountains, natural history, politics and diplomacy, race, religion, science, shopping, and war.

Official records, books, publicity, artwork and artifacts -- tickets, guidebooks, visitor first-hand accounts, and more -- documenting the World's Fairs that attracted millions of tourists from the 19th to the 21st centuries.