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MEL’s Database of the Week for 10/9

October 9th, 2009

Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL).  These weekly database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.

This Week’s Featured Database: World Tourism Organization E-Library, from the United Nations.

Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below our banner.

Description/focus: The World Tourism Organization E-Library reports cover the tourism industry around the world, and our subscription includes electronic versions (PDF or .xls) of all the data published in the standard reference, the Tourism Factbook.

Start with this hint: The link to the Tourism Factbook is about halfway down the column on the left on the landing page.  For other searches, though, choose Advanced Search on the right side in order to quickly select parameters such as language, the region, and year of publication.  After you hit Search, narrow further with selections that appear on the right side of the results.

Why you should know this database: Tourism is, of course, the focus of the World Tourism Organization E-Library, but topics such as risk and crisis management, economics, and sustainable development are covered.  The Tourism Factbook presents charts, but the full-text special country and special topic reports discuss aspects such as the geographical and cultural diversity of the country, population trends, historical and political backgrounds, and economic indicators.

How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: The Tourism Factbook will be of particular interest to students in HTM, but the special reports are a rich source of economic and social information.  For example, The Russian Outbound Market includes a report on internet usage in Europe.

Cost: Paid by the Libraries.

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