LibGuides: Hospitality &amp; Tourism Complete: Search Strategies

Advanced Searching: 2 strategies

Through Zuyd Library, the search bar of this hospitality database is set up in such a way that you always begin with advanced search. In this process, you have two options:

Enter all concepts (keywords / search terms) from the question, one concept per search bar.
Use the building block method, where you link afterwards the building blocks together through the search history.

The Hospitality & Tourism Database is hosted by EBSCO, just like Zuyd Library's DiZ search engine.
There are advanced functionalities within EBSCO that function exactly the same way in the Hospitality database.
For instance: determining the type of search field, filtering search results, etc.
Please refer to the brief explanation of both search strategies at the bottom.

Searching strategy 1

For each concept in your research question, you determine one subject and link it to a keyword.
This ke word is the most obvious one you've identified by orienting yourself on the subject, usually originating from the field's jargon. In the search bar's pop-up, you'll receive suggestions (synonyms) that you can adopt and combine using Boolean OR.
You type the keywords of one concept into one search bar; the different search bars are automatically linked with Boolean AND.
Optionally, you can apply additional search techniques to your search terms, such as truncation, masking, and exact phrase searching (see search techniques).

Example 1

QUESTION:
What factors contribute to promoting job satisfaction and fulfillment to enhance employee loyalty in the hotel industry?
The 3 concepts are: promoting / job satisfaction or fulfillment / loyalty.

Example 1 with searching techniques

Used techniques:

► exact phrase = exact word combination: "job satisfaction"

► truncation = abbreviate with a punctuation mark to search for all variants from that base: loyal*

Tutorial: EBSCO Advanced Searching

Ebsco Tutorials. (2022). EBSCOhost Advanced Searching [video]. YouTube.

Searching strategy 2

You search in seperate steps, with each step arising from one concept or topic in your research question.
You type the keywords/synonyms under each other in each respective search bar.
The keywords/synonyms in the various bars are combined using Boolean OR.
Additionally, you can apply extra search techniques to your search terms (see search techniques).
Afterward, you combine the found results (these are sets) in the search history using Boolean AND.

Example 2

QUESTION: To what extent does the design and ambiance of the hotel bar contribute to the success of the hotel?
The 3 concepts are: design or ambiance / bar / hotel.

Used techniques:

1. In this search strategy 'truncation' is being used with *

► searching for the word hotel but also the plural hotels

2. For the key word bar, truncation was NOT chosen, but a search with bar OR bars

► searching with bar* would mean that you ALSO search for barriers, barn, barcelona and so much more: not convenient.

The result from this search strategy is 1701 hits. This result can still be filtered. To do this, look in the left menu.
For example:

from academic journals only
sources that are peer-reviewed
full-text sources