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This Week’s Featured Database: Hospitality & Tourism Complete, from EBSCOhost

November 10th, 2014

Welcome to Database of the Week.  This feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics is intended to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know, with only basic information to get you started.  Hopefully, you will be tempted to explore this or other databases.

This Week’s Featured Database:  Hospitality & Tourism Complete, from EBSCOhost.

Find it: www.lib.purdue.edu/parrish, Under the column headed Collections, click on List of Business Databases.

Description/focus: Hospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news, extending back to 1965 in some areas.

Start with this hint: Hospitality & Tourism Complete has the basic and advanced search features that are standard in other databases.  Enter a word or short phrase that describes your subject and then narrow your displayed results. The limiting tools on the left are helpful. You can change the publication date, or select different source types. You can also do an Advanced Search for additional options. If the full text of an article is not available, try the icon Find It @ Purdue Libraries which could lead to the full text in another database.

Click here to see the basics of searching Hospitality & Tourism Complete or try our Guide on the Side with this link.

Why you should know this database:  Hospitality & Tourism Complete is directed towards those in the hospitality field, but the included research of subjects such as entrepreneurship or international businesses may apply to other areas. For example, the Datamonitor Country Reports include analysis of the political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental structure of the subject country.

How this will help students:  Searching Hospitality & Tourism Complete is simple and gives students full text results they can access immediately.

Cost: No cost to Purdue University Libraries. Hospitality & Tourism Complete is an Inspire database provided by the state of Indiana.

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