Selected Sources for Hospitality and Tourism Marketing

Business Periodical Databases
Other Periodical Databases
Marketing Databases
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University of Worcester Library Resources
Hospitality Web Sources
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 Business Periodical Databases

Business Insights: Essentials
Company & industry news linked to electronic reference books. Contains histories, market shares, rankings, industry surveys, and investment reports.  Note, use company, industry overviews and article search options. Search for articles and reports with terms like Hospitality, Tourism, Restaurants, Travel, Hotels, Dining, and etc.

Business Source Premier
Full text of over 3,400 business periodicals. This is our largest business database. It provides our best access to scholarly journals. It also has special reports, including "SWOT" analysis. Note the "company profiles" tab, which will allow you to access over 5,000 Datamonitor Company Profiles.  Do keyword searches for articles. Also contains thousands of industry overview reports from Datamonitor. Reports are both country specific and global.  Search for articles and reports with terms like Hospitality, Tourism, Restaurants, Travel, Hotels, Dining, and etc.

Lexis Nexis

A massive database of full text articles. Strong in the areas of news, law, and business. Also contains many trade publications.Search the Business tab to find Hoover In-Dept Reports on a company.

NewsStand
Contains the full text of newspaper articles from over 350 titles. Provides our only source of electronic access to the Wall Street Journal.  Search for keywords.

Other Periodical Databases

Google Scholar
Indexes scholarly literature. Strong in the areas of medicine, engineering, the sciences, and business. Provides relevancy rankings based on the citation patterns of the articles. Sources are linked to UMD Library electronic holdings via "Find It."   Search for keywords.

MasterFile Premier
Contains popular and general interest magazines covering a broad range of disciplines. Many business topics can be researched here as well. Over 2600 titles are indexed, with over 1950 titles available in full text.

Marketing Databases

Global Marketing Information Database (GMID)
An integrated on-line information system providing key business intelligence on countries, companies, markets, and consumers. The GMID contains over a million demographic, economic, and marketing statistics for 205 countries worldwide. The database also contains 6-year historic market size data for more than 330 consumer products in 52 countries, plus 5-year forecasts. To access thousands of international company profiles in the GMID, click on "Browse Reports," and then click on "Company Profiles."

Use Text Search mode.  Note that you can filter results by country, category, etc.

Search for reports with terms like Hospitality, Tourism, Restaurants, Travel, Hotels, Dining, and etc.

This is a VERY Key Source

Mintel Reports
Database containing over 600 consumer product and service marketing reports. Most are US and UK based. They are full of amazing detail and analysis.
Use keyword searches. You may find some particular products mentioned along with consumer demographics and psychographics.

Search for reports with terms like Hospitality, Tourism, Restaurants, Travel, Hotels, Dining, and etc.

This is a VERY Key Source