LibGuides: Hospitality &amp; Tourism Complete: Search Strategies

Advanced Boolean Searching: AND / OR / NOT

Through the Zuyd Library, the search bar of the Hospitality database is configured to always begin with an advanced search.

When conducting an advanced search, you identify one or more search terms or synonyms for each concept in your (research) question.

Using this building-block method, you can incorporate all these concepts into your search strategy.
The Hospitality & Tourism Database is hosted by EBSCO, just like Zuyd Library’s DiZ search engine. Consequently, certain advanced functionalities operate in exactly the same way.

💡 Please see the examples below:

What factors contribute to promoting job satisfaction to enhance employee loyalty in the hotel industry?
To what extent does the design and ambiance of the hotel bar contribute to the success of the hotel?

Concepts	promoting	job satisfaction or work satisfaction	loyalty
Concepts	design or ambience	hotel bar	success

Searching strategy

For each concept in your research question, you determine one subject and link it to a keywords or synonyms. In the search bar's pop-up, you'll receive suggestions (synonyms) that you can adopt and combine using Boolean OR.
Type all terms/synonyms for a single concept into one search bar using OR. Do this for each concept in a new search bar. The different search bars are automatically linked together using the Boolean AND operator.
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 / loyalty.

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 / hotel bar / success

Used techniques:

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

► truncation = abbreviate with a punctuation mark to search for all variants from that base: success*, it searches also successful.

Tutorial: EBSCO Advanced Searching

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

Search results

This result can still be filtered. To do this, look in the top menu.
For example:

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