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Dr Sam Spector

Contact

Department: Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship

Email: sam.spector@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3690861

Office: Meremere 229

Language: English

About
Research / Creative works

Researcher Summary

My research focuses on the intersections between tourism, sustainability, and resilience. I am particularly interested in the rapidly emerging space travel industry.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Marketing and Tourism: Consumer Behaviour
  • Resilience: Commercial: Tourism

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

  • Cohen E. and Spector S. (2020) Comparative visions of cosmic expansion: implications for sustainability. Journal of Sustainable Tourism http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2020.1777142. (Journal Articles)
  • Cohen E. and Spector S. (2020) Transhumanism and cosmic travel. Tourism Recreation Research 45(2): 176-184. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2019.1679984. (Journal Articles)
  • Prayag G., Spector S. and Finsterwalder J. (2020) Customer Experience in Tourism: An Overview. In Dixit S (Ed.), Handbook of Tourism Experience Management and Marketing: 67-76. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxford, UK: Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429203916. (Chapters)
  • Prayag G., Spector S., Orchiston C. and Chowdhury M. (2020) Psychological resilience, organizational resilience and life satisfaction in tourism firms: insights from the Canterbury earthquakes. Current Issues in Tourism 23(10): 1216-1233. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2019.1607832. (Journal Articles)
  • Spector S. (2020) Delineating acceptable risk in the space tourism industry. Tourism Recreation Research 45(4): 500-510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2020.1747798. (Journal Articles)
  • Spector S. (2020) Space travel and the limits to growth. Annals of Tourism Research 81 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2019.05.010. (Journal Articles)
  • Spector S. (2020) The cosmic-local nexus: intersections between outer space and rural communities. Tourism Recreation Research 45(1): 94-106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2019.1658959. (Journal Articles)
  • Spector S., Higham JES. and Gössling S. (2020) Extraterrestrial transitions: Desirable transport futures on earth and in outer space. Energy Research and Social Science 68 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101541. (Journal Articles)
  • Chowdhury M., Prayag G., Orchiston C. and Spector S. (2019) Post-Disaster Social Capital, Adaptive Resilience and Business Performance of Tourism Organizations in Christchurch, New Zealand. Journal of Travel Research 58(7): 1209-1226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047287518794319. (Journal Articles)
  • Cohen E. and Spector S. (2019) Space tourism-past to future : a perspective article. Tourism Review 75(1): 136-139. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/TR-03-2019-0083. (Journal Articles)
  • Hoang D., Karami M. and Spector S. (2019) Employees’ social capital, self-efficacy, and turnover intention: A study in the context of tourism and hospitality. Tourism Innovation: Technology, Sustainability and Creativity: 79-94. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429022814-6. (Chapters)
  • Spector S. and Higham JES. (2019) Space tourism in the Anthropocene. Annals of Tourism Research 79 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2019.102772. (Journal Articles)
  • Spector S., Cradock-Henry NA., Beaven S. and Orchiston C. (2019) Characterising rural resilience in Aotearoa-New Zealand: a systematic review. Regional Environmental Change 19(2): 543-557. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-018-1418-3. (Journal Articles)
  • Prayag G., Chowdhury M., Spector S. and Orchiston C. (2018) Organizational resilience and financial performance. Annals of Tourism Research 73: 193-196. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2018.06.006. (Journal Articles)
  • Stephenson J., Spector S., Hopkins D. and McCarthy A. (2018) Deep interventions for a sustainable transport future. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 61: 356-372. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2017.06.031. (Journal Articles)
  • Spector S. (2017) Environmental communications in New Zealand’s skiing industry: building social legitimacy without addressing non-local transport. Journal of Sport and Tourism 21(3): 159-177. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14775085.2017.1298461. (Journal Articles)
  • Spector S., Higham JES. and Doering A. (2017) Beyond the biosphere: tourism, outer space, and sustainability. Tourism Recreation Research 42(3): 273-283. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2017.1286062. (Journal Articles)
  • Spector S., Chard C., Mallen C. and Hyatt C. (2012) Socially constructed environmental issues and sport: A content analysis of Ski Resort Environmental Communications. Sport Management Review 15(4): 416-433. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.smr.2012.04.003. (Journal Articles)
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