The following search is meant to get you started, but certainly won't be comprehensive. Adjust the search terms to focus on your specific needs.

(aborig* or native* or "First Nations" or Indigenous) AND (market* or tour* or ecotour* or eco-tour* or "heritage tour*" or "cultur* tour*") AND (canad* or BC or "British Columbia" or Ontario) 

To find MarketLine industry profiles of Canada's tourism industry in general: (TI "industry profile") AND (TX marketline) AND tourism AND Canada
(For MarketLine's profiles of the tourism industry in other countries, omit "Canada" from the search strategy)

The following searches are meant to get you started. Adjust the search terms to focus on your specific needs. Note that given the focused nature of this database, you may not need to add terms to reflect the Indigenous aspect of your topic.

(market* or tour* or ecotour* eco-tour* or "heritage tour*" or "cultur* tour") AND (Canad* or BC or "British Columbia" or Ontario)

"Indigenous tourism"

Those searches should lead you to articles such as...

Maher, P. T., MacPherson, S., Doucette, M. B., Tulk, J. E., & Menge, T. (2018). Sustainability, ethics, and authenticity in Indigenous tourism: The case of Eskasoni Cultural Journeys on Goat Island. Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, 11(1), 90-106. doi:https://doi.org/10.54056/QIEV4587
[Use the red Get@SFU button to link through to the fulltext of this article.]

Wiedman, D. (2010). Global Marketing of Indigenous Culture: Discovering Native America with Lee Tiger and the Florida Miccosukee. American Indian Culture & Research Journal, 34(3), 1–26. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.17953/aicr.34.3.k7815085g7472p70

The following broad search is meant to get you started in CBCA Business. Add additional terms, or limit your results by year or publication type to focus on your specific needs.

SUBJECT(aborig* OR indigen* OR native* OR "First Nations") AND (touri* OR ecotour* OR eco-tour* OR ("heritage tour" OR "heritage tourism" OR "heritage tours") OR "cultur* tour")

Remember that even a non-academic article may be full of clues you could explore in other resources. For instance, this article mentioned this podcast.

This very broad Canadian Newsstream search is a good start, but you'll definitely want to delete or add terms and adjust the limits in the left column (date, format, location, etc.) to refine and reduce your results. 

SUMMARY(aborig* OR indigen* OR native* OR "First Nations") AND (touri* OR ecotour* OR eco-tour* OR ("heritage tour" OR "heritage tourism" OR "heritage tours") OR (cultur* NEAR/1 tour*))

News articles are often great starting places. They might describe examples of tourism initiatives you can explore elsewhere or issues & perspectives you hadn't yet considered. They may also mention experts, research studies, etc. — all of which are clues about deeper information you might want to look for on the Internet or in other databases. See, for instance, this more focused news search that seeks articles with a research angle from the last few years.

The GeoBase sample search below looks more complicated than it is. If you read it closely, you'll see that it uses roughly the same groups of concepts used in our other searches: tourism terms + Canadian geographic terms + Indigenous terms. Delete or add words as needed to refine your results.  

((((touri* OR eco-tour* OR ecotour* OR (heritage AND touri*) OR (cultur* AND touri*))) AND ((Canad* OR Alberta OR Ontario OR BC OR "British Columbia"))) AND ((aborig* OR indigen* OR native* OR "First Nations")))

The catalogue is powerful and complex tool, but if you remember a few basic tips, you can quickly create searches that are as broad or as targeted as you need: 

• Combine different concepts using AND (in capital letters)
• Combine same concepts using OR (in capital letters)
• Use quotation marks to search for a phrase
• Use brackets for synonyms
• Use asterisk (*) for different endings of words
• See the SFU Library Catalogue Search Guide for additional tips to make your research even more efficient!

Here are a few rough exploratory searches to get you started: 

• Search for books in which the terms ((indigen* OR aborig*) AND tour*) appear in the book, chapter, or series titles.
• Search for books that have the specific phrases "aboriginal tourism" OR "indigenous tourism" in their titles, subjects, or tables of contents.
• Broader version of the last search, this time adding in additional concepts: "aboriginal tourism" OR "indigenous tourism" OR "Cultural tourism" OR "heritage tourism"

Finally, some more complex keyword searches that bring in geographic, industry, and colonialism aspects: 

• (tour* OR ecotour* OR eco-tour* OR "heritage tourism") AND (aborig* OR "First Nations* OR indigen*) AND (BC OR "British Columbia" OR Canad*)
• (wine* OR ski* OR wilderness OR forest* OR fish*) AND (tour* OR ecotour* OR "heritage tour*") AND (aboriginal OR indigenous OR "First Nations") 
• (settler OR colonial* OR decolonial* OR "post-colonial*" OR imperialism) AND (tour* OR ecotour*) AND (aborig* OR "First Nations" OR indigen*)

• Handbook of marketing research methodologies for hospitality and tourism (2007)
• Handbook of tourism impacts : social and environmental perspectives (2022)
• Routledge handbook of community-based tourism management : concepts, issues & implications (2021)
• Routledge handbook of cultural tourism (2013)
• Routledge handbook of ecotourism (2022)
• Routledge handbook of sustainable heritage (2023)
• Routledge handbook of tourism marketing (2014)

BC Wilderness Tourism Association

Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council

Destination BC: industry site + public site

Destination Canada: industry site + public site

go2HR 
The human resources and health & safety association for BC’s tourism and hospitality industry. Their research reports may help you understand the overall labour situation in the local tourism industry. For instance...

• BC Tourism and Hospitality Labour Market Information (LMI) Research Project (2022)
• BC Tourism and Hospitality Labour Market Information Workforce Profiles (2021)

Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC)
"The purpose of the ITAC is to improve the socio-economic situation of Indigenous people within the 10 provinces and 3 territories of Canada. ITAC does that through the provision of [...] services to Indigenous tourism operators and communities, or those looking to start a cultural tourism business."

Indigenous Tourism BC
A "non-profit, Stakeholder-based organization that is committed to growing and promoting a sustainable, culturally rich Indigenous tourism industry" that is "regarded as a world leader in the development and promotion of authentic Indigenous cultural tourism products and experiences and is actively supporting the province in becoming a leading global destination for Indigenous tourism."

• See also, Destination Indigenous, the more public/tourist-facing side of ITAC.

Tourism Industry Association of Canada

World Tourism Organization
Many of the UNWTO's resources are available only for subscribers, but they do offer some free reports in their E-library that you might find useful. For example: 

• Compendium of Good Practices in Indigenous Tourism – Regional Focus on the Americas (Mar 2023)
• Recommendations on Sustainable Development of Indigenous Tourism (Dec 2019)
• UNWTO Inclusive Recovery Guide – Sociocultural Impacts of Covid-19, Issue 4: Indigenous Communities (May 2021)

Conference Board of Canada
We don't have a subscription to the Conference Board of Canada here at SFU, and many of their reports are quite expensive. However, a small number of their reports can be downloaded for free (after registration). A few examples: 

• Impact of ITAC’s Tourism Growth Strategy on Canada’s Indigenous Tourism Sector (2023)
• Canada’s Indigenous Tourism Sector: Assessing the Tax Impacts of ITAC’s Tourism Growth Strategy (2023)
• Canada’s Indigenous Tourism Sector: Insights and Economic Impacts (2019)

Outdoor Recreation Council of BC

• Working in a Good Way: A best practices guide for engaging and working with Indigenous Peoples on trails and outdoor recreation projects in British Columbia

Small Business BC

• Strategies to Start and Grow a Tourism Business 

Also see our Policy Commons database for reports from research institutes, think tanks, etc. 

• Start with a search in Policy Commons for either of the phrases: "indigenous tourism" OR "aboriginal tourism"

Canadian Intellectual Property Office: Makatew Workshops: Building a business around a brand!

Indigenous Services Canada: search for tourism to find articles, case studies and more

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

• Indigenous Tourism Fund : Signature Indigenous Tourism Experiences Stream & Micro and Small Business Stream
• The Canadian tourism sector 
• New Federal Tourism Growth Strategy
• SME Profile: Tourism Industries in Canada, 2020 

Parks Canada: Indigenous tourism experiences 

Statistics Canada  

• Statistics and analysis by subjects: Indigenous peoples & Travel and Tourism
• Analysis on businesses majority-owned by various sub-population groups and visible minorities, first quarter of 2022

BC Gov News: search for announcements concerning "Indigenous Tourism"

BC Stats - tourism data and publications

Ministry of Tourism, Culture, and the Arts 

• Tourism Research
• Conversations on the Future of Tourism in B.C.

In these sample searches, we've used the "intitle" search tag to focus on resources in which our terms appear in the title. We've also used the vertical line ("pipe") as an "OR" substitute to make it simpler to search for either indigenous OR aboriginal. Learn more about that and other useful tricks in the SFU Library's search tips page.

• intitle:aboriginal|indigenous   intitle:British Columbia   intitle:tourism
   
• intitle:aboriginal|indigenous   intitle:Canada   intitle:tourism

Make the most efficient use of your time in Google Scholar by turning on a feature to connect your search results through to SFU Library resources: Go to Google Scholar's Settings, select Library Links, then search for and select Simon Fraser University. You should then see Get@SFU links next to many of the articles in your search results.

Also, when browsing your result list, look for "cited by" links beneath article references to find who has cited those articles since they were first published. For instance, this 2018 article has been cited by more than 30 newer articles and chapters