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Professor Kan Tsui

Name Kan Tsui
Pronoun He/Him/His
Position Professor (Aviation)
Section School of Business
Office 334
Location Springfield Campus
Phone +61 7 3470 4559
Extension 4559
Email
Qualifications BBusSt Massey , BAvn Massey , PGDipPA Massey , PGDipAvn Massey , PGDipBusAdmMgmt Massey , MMgt Massey , PhD Massey

Biography

I am Professor (Aviation) at School of Business within University of Southern Queensland, Brisbane, and am the Discipline Lead (Department Head) for Aviation. I obtained PhD in Aviation Management at Massey University in 2013, and worked with University of South Australia between 2013 and 2014. I worked in the aviation sectors for more than five years.

I have published 62 papers in aviation, tourism, and economics journals and 5 book chapters relating to aviation policy and the airport and tourism sectors. My papers have been published in Tourism Management, Journal of Travel Research, Annals of Tourism Research, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Urban Studies, and Regional Studies (Q1 journals, A* grade journal - ABDC list, Shanghai 219, or FT50). One of A* papers (Tourism Management) is my solo-authored research. To recognise my research achievement, I was awarded “Massey University College of Business - Early Career Research Award” in 2015 and “Massey University College Research Awards (Supervisor)” in 2022. In addition, I received the “Outstanding Paper Award” at the 7th International Conference on Transportation and Space-Time Economics at Beijing Jiaotong University in 2019. I have been the principal investigator for four (4) research projects and have provided advisory services to government and airport. I currently serve on the editor of Case Studies on Transport Policy, the guest editors of Current Issues in Tourism and Research in Transportation Business & Management, the editorial board on Journal of International Logistics and Trade (JILT), and act the reviewer for international journals. Also, I am interviewed by local and overseas newspapers about the aviation issues.

My research involves development and application of state-of-the-art techniques and methodology to investigate and analyse the contemporary issues related to the air transport industry and the dynamics of air transport policy, as well as tourism. I have been very proactive in supervision and successfully supervised 3 PhD students and 12 Master students as main supervisor and looking to grow the cohort of PhD and Masters students to research air transport, tourism and other-related issues.

Most recent publications:

- Ngo, T., Wu, H., Tsui, W. H. K., Squires, G., & Wang, X. (2025). House Prices during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Impact of “Panic” Returnees Migrants to New Zealand. International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, Forthcoming

- Wang, H., Tsui, W. H. K., Wu, H. J., Fu, X., & Wang, X. C. (2025). External environments and the growth of low-cost carriers in the Asia-Pacific region: a systematic review and future research agendas. Research in Transport Economics, 101515.

- He, H., Wu, H., Tsui, W. H. K., Wang, Bo., & Fu. X. (2024). Spatiotemporal evolution of air cargo networks and its impact on economic development – An analysis of China’ domestic market before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Transport Geography, 177, 103872.

- Wu, H. J., Lin, Y. H., Ngo, T., & Tsui, W. H. K. (2023). Aviation subsidy policy and regional wellbeing: Important indicators from relevant stakeholders’ perspectives. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 16, 101181.

Su, J, B., Wu, H. J., Tsui, W. H. K., Fu, X., & Zheng, L. (2023). Aviation resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of the European aviation market. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 177, 103835.

- Lin, Y. H., Wu, H. J., He, H., & Tsui, W. H. K. (2023). Changes in perceptions of airport services’ attributes: An assessment of the impacts of COVID-19. Transport Policy, 141, 116-128.

- Wu, C., Tang, W., & Tsui, W. H. K. (2023). Analysing factors affecting charter flight service demand. Journal of Air Transport Management, 110, 102424.

- Ngo, T., & Tsui, W. H. K. (2023). Price reaction in New Zealand’s duopolistic airline market. International Journal of the Economics of Business, 30(2), 159-184.

Research Career


  • Econometric And Statistical Methods ( 380202 )
  • Cross-Sectional Analysis ( 380201 )
  • Econometrics not elsewhere classified ( 380299 )
  • Panel Data Analysis ( 380204 )
  • Econometrics ( 380200 )

I'm keen to explore the dynamics of the air transport industry and the tourism sector within the Asia-Pacific region. My areas of focus include the regulatory environments of air transport, current and future tourism trends and their interaction with the air transport industry, the management and operations of airlines and airports, and the future development of aviation in various regions.


- Member of the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS)
- Member of Belt and Road Global Research Network•
- Member of The Council for Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE)
- Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society (New Zealand Division)
- Member of Belt and Road Global Research Network


• Executive Member of the Aviation Policy and Research Centre (the Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Teaching


AVN1105 Introduction to Aviation Business (Undergraduate)

AVN2101 Airport Operations Management (Undergraduate)

AVN3110 Aviation Security Management (Undergraduate)

AVN5101 OptimiZing Air Transport Economics (Postgraduate)

Supervising PhD and Master students


13 Years


Aviation Discipline Lead (Department Head)

Supervision


  • Econometric And Statistical Methods ( 380202 )
  • Cross-Sectional Analysis ( 380201 )
  • Econometrics not elsewhere classified ( 380299 )
  • Panel Data Analysis ( 380204 )
  • Econometrics ( 380200 )