LibGuides: Tourism, Travel and Hospitality: Getting Started

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Library Quick Search is a discovery tool that searches across multiple databases. Use filters on the left-hand side to narrow down your results.

Passport (Euromonitor)
Click on Industries > Travel.
MarketLine
Search for tourism, travel, hotels, hospitality.
Business Source Complete: Business Search Interface
On the right menu select Market Research Reports and browse by topic or publisher Richard K. Miller.
Mintel Academic
Travel and tourism in countries and regions around the world, hotels, cruises, airlines, car rentals, and more.
IBISWorld
Contains over 700 detailed industry market reports for the U.S., based on the NAICS classification. Reports include industry performance, lifecycle, products and markets, supply chain, operating conditions, regulation and policy, key competitors, barriers to entry, outlook, and more. A growing collection of Specialized Industry Reports addresses more narrowly defined product/service segments or emerging industries.

Leisure Market Research Handbook
Covers use of leisure time, city-by-city leisure acitivities, state-by-state recreation & sports participation, art, automotive, bicycling, birding, casinos, dining, collecting, concerts, country clubs, crafts, culinary arts, festivals, films and DVD sales and rental, gardening, gold, health clubs, camping, hunting, travel, lotteries, museums, music, parks and more for a total of 66 categories.
Travel & Tourism Market Research Handbook
Covers 86 categories of travel, inlcuding state-by-state and city-by-city tourism spending; airlines, airports, auto rental,cruises, golf resorts, beaches, business travel, ecotourism, hotels, theme parks, and more.
Restaurant, Food & Beverage Market Research Handbook
Includes a market summary, trends, customer profiles, market segments (fine dining, chains, pizza, coffeehouses, etc), trends in dining, food and beverages, award-winning restaurants and chefs.

Hospitality Net
A hospitality-specific online knowledge-base. Much of its information, including news and market reports, is supplied by members of the industry.

Cornell Industry Guides
The Nestle Library at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration provides valuable research guides for various sectors of hospitality industry
BRASS Business Guide - Hospitality
Resources curated by business librarians.

While the UTSA Libraries may not offer access to some of these resources, you can always check UTSA Databases to see if they are available.