Gateway Sites

1. This site:http://info.ic.gc.ca/Tourism/business is a gateway to government information on industry competitiveness research, marketing research, and contact names and addresses of people in the government involved in the area of strategy and marketing for tourism businesses in Canada. can be accessed which lists ski resorts, and the company that owns each one. The researcher can then take this information to the company search engines).
   
   
2. This site: http://www.lib.sfu.ca/kiosk/efairey/market.htm is a gateway to a multitude of marketing resources at the SFU library. Some resources are listed by call number, others are available by link at the web site. This site is very useful for marketing research.
   
   
3. This site: http://www.eresumes.com/links_corp.html is a gateway site to three company search engines that will display a summary of financial information for a company upon request. The summary displays key executives, a listing of under-companies, as well as a direct connection to the company web site. This is useful for strategic analysis because it leads to large sources of information on companies. Instead of typing in a search for a particular company, the researcher could also search for listings of companies by industry, geographic area, or alphabetical order. (Note: a preliminary search of other databases should be done to find the company that owns a particular tourism business. For example, in researching ski resorts, the database of: http://skicentral.com/toc.html

Other Links

1. This site: http://comsp.com.latrobe.edu.au/bps.html is a great source of information relating to strategy issues and management. Lists of recent research articles as well as summaries are given. This website is provided by La Trobe University's Business Policy & Strategy Department.
   
   
2. This page: http://info.ic.gc.ca/Tourism/business/research/ contains information on current and proposed Canadian federal government tourism research, including the assessment of the tourism industry and tourism marketing, with key contacts for various areas.
   
   
3. The University of Texas at Austin provides this site: http://www.bus.utexas.edu/~marketing/resource.htm of marketing related resources. Links to marketing journals (mainly tables of contents) are also provided
   
   
4. This page: http://www.brint.com/interest.html, posted by the Business Research in Information and Technology group (home page: www.brint.com), allows for searches and information retrieval in the business information and technology fields. Although it may be limited in the resources it offers for strategy and marketing, this site offers some interesting, related up-to-date information. There are also many connections to journals and magazines, as well as complete papers that may be retrieved upon request.
   
   
5. This source: http://www.hoover.com/cgi-bin/bizreg.cgi, put out by the Hoover Company is useful for strategic analysis because it provides information on companies. The researcher could search for listings of companies by industry, geographic area, or alphabetical order.
   
   
6. This database site: http://www.lib.sfu.ca/kiosk/cgi-bin/trust1.pl?abii contains some of the most up-to-date information of any database system for business information. This database is accessible from any computer that has the NCSA telnet program (generally all computers on the SFU campus). A search may be done using "strategy" and "competition" with the industry of choice, and many recent articles with their abstracts are displayed. (Note: many are available online, and an order may be sent and picked up within 30 minutes at the SFU library desk).