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Business and Management
New Zealand
2026

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Business and Management

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62
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16286
World Ranking
469
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in New Zealand Leader Award

Overview

Girish Prayag is affiliated with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting, with a substantial body of work contributing to both areas.

Their published work covers a broad range of topics including Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research, Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification, Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management, Sport and Mega-Event Impacts, Digital Marketing and Social Media, Disaster Management and Resilience, and Customer Service Quality and Loyalty.

Frequent co-authors in their research include C. Michael Hall, Mesbahuddin Chowdhury, Lucie K. Ozanne, Peter Fieger, and Clifford Lewis.

They have published regularly in several academic venues, with significant contributions appearing in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Tourism Management Perspectives, Journal of Travel Research, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, and Tourism Recreation Research.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Prayag highlight various facets of tourism and organizational resilience, including:

  • "Beyond panic buying: consumption displacement and COVID-19" (2020), Journal of service management
  • "The role of social capital on proactive and reactive resilience of organizations post-disaster" (2020), International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • "Time for Reset? Covid-19 and Tourism Resilience" (2020), Tourism Review International
  • "SMEs navigating COVID-19: The influence of social capital and dynamic capabilities on organizational resilience" (2022), Industrial Marketing Management
  • "Psychological capital, coping mechanisms and organizational resilience: Insights from the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake, New Zealand" (2020), Tourism Management Perspectives

In addition to articles, Prayag has contributed to academic books published by Multilingual Matters eBooks and Edward Elgar Publishing. Titles include "Tourism and Earthquakes" (2021) and "The customer and tourist experience? Conceptual convergence or divergence" (2022).

Best Publications

  • Antecedents of Tourists’ Loyalty to Mauritius: The Role and Influence of Destination Image, Place Attachment, Personal Involvement, and Satisfaction

    Girish Prayag;Chris Ryan

  • Consumer behaviour in tourism: Concepts, influences and opportunities

    Scott A. Cohen;Girish Prayag;Miguel Moital

  • Understanding the relationships between tourists' emotional experiences, perceived overall image, satisfaction, and intention to recommend

    Girish Prayag;Sameer Hosany;Birgit Muskat;Birgit Muskat;Giacomo Del Chiappa;Giacomo Del Chiappa

  • The role of tourists' emotional experiences and satisfaction in understanding behavioral intentions

    Girish Prayag;Sameer Hosany;Khaled Odeh

  • Tourists' evaluations of destination image, satisfaction, and future behavioral intentions - the case of Mauritius.

    Girish Prayag

  • London residents' support for the 2012 Olympic Games: The mediating effect of overall attitude

    Girish Prayag;Girish Prayag;Sameer Hosany;Robin Nunkoo;Robin Nunkoo;Robin Nunkoo;Taila Alders

  • The relationship between the 'push' and 'pull' factors of a tourist destination: the role of nationality - an analytical qualitative research approach

    Girish Prayag;Chris Ryan

  • Patterns of tourists' emotional responses, satisfaction, and intention to recommend

    Sameer Hosany;Girish Prayag

  • Mediating Effects of Place Attachment and Satisfaction on the Relationship between Tourists’ Emotions and Intention to Recommend:

    Sameer Hosany;Girish Prayag;Robert Van Der Veen;Songshan (Sam) Huang

  • Measuring Tourists’ Emotional Experiences Further Validation of the Destination Emotion Scale

    Sameer Hosany;Girish Prayag;Siripan Deesilatham;Siripan Deesilatham;Senija Cauševic

  • Beyond panic buying: consumption displacement and COVID-19

    Michael C. Hall;Girish Prayag;Peter Fieger;David Dyason

  • Tourism and Resilience: Individual, Organisational and Destination Perspectives

    C. Michael Hall;Girish Prayag;Alberto Amore

  • When Middle East meets West: Understanding the motives and perceptions of young tourists from United Arab Emirates

    Girish Prayag;Sameer Hosany

  • Organizational resilience in the tourism sector

    Caroline Orchiston;Girish Prayag;Charlotte Brown

  • Image, Satisfaction and Loyalty—The Case of Cape Town

    Girish Prayag

  • SMEs navigating COVID-19: The influence of social capital and dynamic capabilities on organizational resilience

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  • Psychological resilience, organizational resilience and life satisfaction in tourism firms: insights from the Canterbury earthquakes

    Girish Prayag;Samuel Spector;Caroline Orchiston;Mesbahuddin Chowdhury

  • Symbiotic relationship or not? Understanding resilience and crisis management in tourism

    Girish Prayag

  • A systematic review of peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation sharing research from 2010 to 2016: progress and prospects from the multi-level perspective.

    Girish Prayag;Lucie K Ozanne

  • The capacity of New Zealand to accommodate the halal tourism market : or not

    Serrin Razzaq;C. Michael Hall;C. Michael Hall;C. Michael Hall;Girish Prayag

  • The role of social capital on proactive and reactive resilience of organizations post-disaster

    Xin Jia;Mesbahuddin Chowdhury;Girish Prayag;Maruf Hossan Chowdhury

  • Postdisaster Social Capital, Adaptive Resilience and Business Performance of Tourism Organizations in Christchurch, New Zealand

    Mesbahuddin Chowdhury;Girish Prayag;Caroline Orchiston;Samuel Spector

Frequent Co-Authors

C. Michael Hall
C. Michael Hall Massey University
Giacomo Del Chiappa
Giacomo Del Chiappa University of Sassari
Lucie K. Ozanne
Lucie K. Ozanne University of Canterbury
Robin Nunkoo
Robin Nunkoo University of Johannesburg
Chris Ryan
Chris Ryan University of Waikato
Johan Bruwer
Johan Bruwer University of Adelaide
Songshan (Sam) Huang
Songshan (Sam) Huang Edith Cowan University
Pierpaolo D'Urso
Pierpaolo D'Urso Sapienza University of Rome
Scott A. Cohen
Scott A. Cohen University of Surrey
John P. Rice
John P. Rice Washington University in St. Louis

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