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Hospitality, Sport, & Tourism Management

This research guide was created to take the guess work out of what you should be using to complete assignments in this field. Course guides have also been added. These will provide research sources available specific to individual course work.

Current Business Situation

IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Founded in 1971, IBISWorld provides trusted industry research on thousands of industries worldwide. Our in-house analysts leverage economic, demographic and market data, then add analytical and forward-looking insight, to help organizations of all types make better business decisions.
Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Includes SWOT analyses.

Pineapple Search
The PineappleSearch platform exclusively builds its contents by aggregating more than 600+ relevant and curated industry sources, using publicly available RSS and XML feeds. This includes content from research journals, blogs and online trade magazines.

Target Audience/Demographic Research

Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista is a global data and business intelligence platform with an extensive collection of statistics, reports, and insights on over 80,000 topics from 22,500 sources in 170 industries.

Census Business Builder
Find popular facts (population, income, etc.) and frequently requested data about a particular community.

Citation Generator

NoodleTools This link opens in a new window
Integrated tools for note-taking, outlining, citation, document archiving/annotation, and collaborative research and writing.

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