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Leisure Travel & Tourism Industry

A guidebook to key resources for the industry

Companies & Competitors

Use the resources below to gather a better understanding about the companies the industry. 

Start by looking for information about the larger or publicly-held companies first, since it is a lot more challenging to find private company information. 

You can use information from company reports, stock reports, 10-K filings, etc. to better understand how companies are operating within the industry.  

  • Search for known public companies in the industry sectors, such as hotel companies, airlines, travel booking companies, etc.
  • Look at the SWOT analyses and the 10-K filings for those companies to gather information about how the company is engaging with the industry conditions
  • Search for a company within the industry to find company financials, a list of competitors, etc. 
  • Look at the Company Reports Tab to find Equity and Brokerage Reports.  Analysts will often report about the industry as they are discussing the company.

Quarterly earnings conference calls are recorded as print transcripts, and can be found in Nexis Uni (formerly Lexis-Nexis Academic). The reports can be an effective way of understanding some of the company's strategies or how they are dealing with industry pressures and competition.

Find Earnings Call Transcripts in NexisUni

Use NexisUni  (link above) as described and shown below to find earnings conference call transcripts.

  1. Click "A publication"  in  "What are you interested in?".
  2. Enter your public company name in the search box
  3. Type" Disclosure" in the Find Publication box and select "FD (Fair Disclosure) Newswire."
  4. Click "Search"

Details on how to find earnings conference calls as written above


Like a post-game press conference with a coach talking about the successes and failures of his team, public companies also discuss their successes, earnings, initiatives, and failures with analysts. These quarterly earnings conference calls are recorded as print transcripts, and can be found in Nexis Uni (formerly Lexis-Nexis Academic). The reports can be an effective way of understanding some of the company's strategies. This video shows you how to find the reports.
  • Use the Advanced Search to build a custom list of companies by NAICS or SIC industry code in a custom location
  • Build a list of those companies and export custom criteria to a spreadsheet for additional analysis
  • Search for specific private companies within the industry to find company information
  • Available information varies by company, but you can sometimes find company financial information, growth rate, employee size, etc.