Kresge Research Guides: Kresge Resources for MAP: Hospitality and Recreation

Hospitality, Food and Foodservice, and Recreation Resources

Mintel
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- Global Travel and Tourism reports and a wide range of related reports, including Medical Tourism, Loyalty Programs in hospitality, hotels and lodging and Luxury Travel
IBISWorld Industry Reports
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- IBIS features reports on Hotels and Motels, Tourism, Casinos and Casino Hotels, Restaurants and Resorts
Euromonitor Passport
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- Global travel and tourism reports, country-specific companies and brands
Video tutorials:
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STR SHARE Center
Academic data set for the hotel industry from Smith Travel Research. Includes performance, company statistics, forecasts, hotel census, and property and room counts. Contact a librarian for information on accessing this data.
Terms of Use: Data made available through the STR SHARE Center may only be used in the class room, for a student project, or research, by the faculty, staff and currently-enrolled students of your school. The data may not be made available to or shown to any person outside, such as any local hotel property, any hotel company, any local convention and visitors bureau (or similar agency), any benchmarking firm (whether or not such firm competes directly or indirectly with STR) or any consulting firm. The data cannot be used for any profit-generating enterprise, either directly or indirectly, such as, but not limited to, any benchmarking services (whether or not such services are in direct or indirect competition with STR) or any sort of trade of services.
eMarketer
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use eMarketer to explore how consumers research and book travel as well as digital marketing trends for hotels and other travel related topics.
Video tutorials:
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Additional Resources

U.S. Travel Association

The US professional association offers news, statistics, travel price indices, research on US and international travel

United States Office of Travel and Tourism Industries

Tourism policy, statistics on inbound and outbound US travel, research including programs in international air travel, monthly statistics sets

World Travel and Tourism Council

Country-specific research and statistics, benchmarking and economic impact, operations and management research from the WTTC

American Hotel and Lodging Association

Industry statistics, state profiles, information on educational programs and resource links

World Economic Forum Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report

Annual report provides country-specific data and information based on the organization's Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI)