Vu Thao HSLU W

Dr. Thao Vu Thao Vu

Lecturer

Vu Thao HSLU W

Lucerne School of Business

Room R209
Rösslimatte 48
6002 Luzern


Institute of Tourism and Mobility (ITM)

CC Mobility (ITM Mob)

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Biography

Dr. Thao Vu is a lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Her research and teaching interests include travel behaviour, public transport, mobility on demand, leisure travel, tourism and labour migration, and methodologies. Her work has been published in various highly reputable peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Travel Research, Transport Policy, Transportation, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Geoforum. She has gained her international work experience in Vietnam, Denmark, Germany (KCW Berlin), and Switzerland.

Message to students

I regularly supervise students whose interests in writing bachelor or master thesis in Tourism and Mobility. Please feel free to contact me to explore potential options for supervision.

Education 

2020: University Didactics Certificate, HSLU

2008 – 2011: PhD in Human Geography, 2011, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2014 – 2016: MSc in Business Administration, Major in Tourism, HSLU, Switzerland

2005 – 2007: MSc in Geography and Geoinformatics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

1998 – 2002: BSc in Economics, National Economics University, Vietnam

Career

Since 3/2019: Lecturer at the Competence Center Mobility at the Institute for Tourism and Mobility, HSLU - Business

11/2022 – 5/2024: Consultant at Mytravel Vietnam Company Limited

6/2020 – 8/2020: Consultant at KCW GmbH Berlin, Germany

1/2016 – 2/2019: (Senior) Research Associate at the Competence Center Mobility at the Institute of Tourism and Mobility, HSLU - Business 

 

 

Subjects
  • How to turn your research into publication (Campus Luzern: University of Luzerne, HSLU & PH)
  • Developing Knowledge from Literature (BSc IBA, Module Coordinator)
  • Developing Knowledge from Interviews (BSc IBA, Module Coordinator)
  • Sustainable Development (BSc IBA)
Professional competencies
  • Travel Behaviour
  • Public Transport
  • Mobility on Demand
  • Leisure Travel
  • Tourism
  • Labour Migration and Gender Studies
  • GIS Analysis
  • R, SPSS, Qualitative Methods

Projects

Research projects

  • SWICE (Sustainable Wellbeing for the individual and the Collectivity in the Energy transition)
  • SWICE (Sustainable Wellbeing for the individual and the Collectivity in the Energy transition)
  • Innovation Booster "New Mobility"
  • Swiss Tourism for Sustainable Development Project (ST4SD) in Vietnam
  • Tourism Microentrepreneurship: Pathways to Empowerment and Social Inclusion
  • Tourism Value Chain Governance for Sustainability: A Cross-Country Comparative Study
  • SNF NFP 78: Risk Perception and Tourism Behaviour: How to Control Pandemic Infectious Diseases Through Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) ?
  • Pooling von On-demand Verkehren
  • PROJECT TITTLE: Mobility Ecosystem for Low-carbon and INnovative moDal shift in the Alps
  • Digital lives in coworking spaces: do mobile lifestyles reduce rural-urban disparities?
  • Auswirkungen hybride Vorlesungsformate
  • Potentiale neuer Mobilitätsdienstleistungen im öffentlichen Raum
  • Potentiale von Coworking Spaces im ländlichen Raum
  • Influence of Remote Work on Cross-Border Passenger Flows
  • Influence of Remote Work on Cross-Border Passenger Flows
  • Grand Train Tour of Switzerland
  • Hochschule Luzern – Technik & Architektur (Horw) – Campuserweiterung; Ermittlung von 2000-Watt-Areal-Kriterien für die Nutzung „Hochschule“
  • Folgen für die Verkehrsplanung bei Siedlungsverdichtung
  • Shared Economy und der Verkehr in der Schweiz
  • Internationaler Personenverkehr Bahn / Bus
  • Standorteffekte des Mobility Car Sharings auf den Energieverbrauch gemäss SIA MB 2039
  • VeSPA: Einflüsse von Mensch und Gesellschaft auf das Strassenunfallgeschehen / Massnahmen und Potenziale im Bereich Verkehrsteilnehmende

Publications and presentations

Publications and presentations - Article, review; peer reviewed

  • Vu, Thao Thi; Hüsser, Andreas & Ohnmacht, Timo (2024). Collective or Individual? Tourists’ travel mode choice during a pandemic. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Volume 26,
  • Vu, Thao Thi; Imhof, Sebastian & von Arx, Widar (2023). Demand responsive transport: New insights from peri-urban experiences. Travel Behaviour and Society, 141-150.
  • Hüsser, Andreas; Ohnmacht, Timo & Vu, Thao Thi (2023). Tourists’ preventive travel behaviour during COVID-19: the mediating role of attitudes towards applying non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) while travelling. Current Issues in Tourism, 27(1), 1-15.
  • Ohnmacht, Timo; Hüsser, Andreas & Vu, Thao Thi (2022). Pointers to Interventions for Promoting COVID-19 Protective Measures in Tourism: A Modelling Approach Using Domain-Specific Risk-Taking Scale, Theory of Planned Behaviour, and Health Belief Model. Frontiers in Psychology / Health Psychology, (940090), 1-14.
  • Vu, Thao Thi; Hüsser, Andreas Philippe & Ohnmacht, Timo (2022). A combined theory-based explanatory model for predicting tourists’ travel intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of individual’s assessment of the compliance with non-pharmaceutical interventions. Discover Psychology, (2), 36.
  • Wegelin, Philipp; von Arx, Widar & Vu, Thao Thi (2022). Weather myths: how attractive is good weather really for same-day visits to outdoor recreation destinations? Tourism Recreation Research, 1-13. doi: 10.1080/02508281.2022.2148076
  • Vu, Thao Thi; Imhof, Sebastian & von Arx, Widar (2021). Integration of ridesharing with public transport in rural Switzerland: Practice and outcomes. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2021(10), 1-12.
  • Juschten, Maria; Ohnmacht, Timo; Vu, Thi Thao; Gerike, Regine & Hössinger, Reinhard (2019). Carsharing in Switzerland: identifying new markets by predicting membership based on data on supply and demand. Transportation, 46(4), 1171-1194. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-017-9818-7
  • Vu, Thao Thi; von Arx, Widar & Frölicher, Jonas (2019). Swiss Cooperation in the Travel and Tourism Sector: Long-term Relationships and Superior Performance. Journal of Travel Research, 1-17.
  • Vu, Thao Thi & Ohnmacht, Timo (2019). The impact of the built environment on travel behavior: The Swiss experience based on two National Travel Surveys. Research in Transportation Business & Management, 2020(36), 100386.
  • von Arx, Widar; Vu, Thi Thao; Wegelin, Philipp; Maarfield, Simon & Frölicher, Jonas (2018). The development of international passenger rail services from 2007 to 2016: The case of Switzerland. Research in Transportation Economics, 2018(36), 326-336. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2018.07.020
  • Ohnmacht, Timo; Vu, Thi Thao; Schaffner, Dorothea & Weibel, Christian (2018). How to postpone purchases of a new mobile phone? Pointers for interventions based on socio-psychological factors and a phase model of behavioural change. Journal of Cleaner Production, 200, 809-818. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.07.292
  • Vu, Thao; Wegelin, Philipp & von Arx, Widar (2017). Are Statutory Passenger Watchdogs Effective in Representing Passenger Interests in Public Transport? Transport Policy, (58), 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2017.04.008
  • Vu, Thao (2013). Making a Living in Rural Vietnam from (im)mobile Livelihoods: A Case of Women’s Migration. Population, Space and Place, 19(1), 87-102. doi: 10.1002/psp.1706
  • Vu, Thao & Agergaard, Jytte (2012). “Doing Family”: Female Migrants and Family Transition in Rural Vietnam. Asian Population Studies, 8(1), 103-119. doi: 10.1080/17441730.2012.646845
  • Vu, Thao & Agergaard, Jytte (2012). ‘White cranes fly over black cranes’: The Longue Durée of Rural-Urban Migration in Vietnam. Geoforum, 43(6), 1088-1098.
  • Agergaard, Jytte & Vu, Thao (2011). Mobile, Flexible, and Adaptable: Female Migrants in Hanoi’s Informal Sector. Population, Space and Place, 17(3), 407-420. doi: 10.1002/psp.622

Publications and presentations - Chapter/legal commentary/lexicon article

  • Ohnmacht, Timo; Vu, Thao Thi & von Arx, Widar (2020). Job Mobility Biographies in Coworking Spaces: A Theoretical Contribution to New Social and Spatial Restructurings. In Joachim Scheiner; Henrike Rau (Hrsg.), Mobility over the life course (S. 100-116). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
  • Vu, Thao; Wozniak, Thomas & Liebrich, Andreas (2017). Customer Engagement in Facebook Brand Communities: Measurement and Best Practices from the Airline Industry. In Roland Schegg; Brigitte Stangl (Hrsg.), Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2017 (S. 683-696). Cham: Springer.
  • Vu, Thao (2015). Chapter 5 - When the Pillar of the Home Shaking: Female Labor Migration and Stay-at-home Fathers in Vietnam. In Inhorn M. C., Chavkin W., and Navarro J. A. (Eds.) (Hrsg.), Globalized Fatherhood (S. 129-151). Oxford: Berghahn books.

Publications and presentations - Report/working paper

  • Oberholzer, Lea; Gauch, Jérôme; Eggli, Florian; Schonger, Martin; Vu, Thao Thi; Hüsser, Andreas & Ohnmacht, Timo (2022). Infektionsprävention im Tourismus: Reisen während der Pandemie. Veranstaltungsbericht mit Massnahmenempfehlung (Bericht).
  • Vu, Thi Thao; Endrissat, Nada; Ohnmacht, Timo & Von Arx, W. (2019). “Local Office With Soul” - Business Model Innovation of Coworking Spaces in Switzerland (Bericht).
  • Bubenhofer, Jonas; Hengsberger, Jürgen; Hool, Anna; Stahel, Alex; Ohnmacht, Timo; Vu, Thi Thao; Kielinger, Thomas & Roth, Pascal (2018). Folgen der Innenentwicklung für den Verkehr und die Planungsprozesse (Schweizerische Vereinigung der Verkehrsingenieure und Verkehrsexperten No. SVI 2015/003).

Publications and presentations - Presentation (conference/report/lectures)

  • Hüsser, Andreas; Ohnmacht, Timo & Vu, Thao Thi (11.09.2024). How Health Beliefs about COVID-19 form Attitudes towards Preventive Behaviors. Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association 2024, FHNW Campus Muttenz.
  • Ohnmacht, Timo; Hüsser, Andreas & Vu, Thao Thi (21.08.2024). Collective or Individual? Tourists’ Travel Mode Choice During a Pandemic. The 5th International Conference on Tourism and Business (ICTB), Bangkok, Thailand.
  • Vu, Thao Thi & von Arx, Widar (06.06.2023). Getting Published in International Peer-Reviewed Journals. Sharing Experiences in International Journal Publication, Hue, Vietnam.
  • Vu, Thao Thi & von Arx, Widar (05.06.2023). Swiss Cooperation in the Travel and Tourism Sector: Long-term Relationships and Superior Performance. Tourism value chain governance for sustainability, Hue, Vietnam.
  • Vu, Thao Thi (08.12.2022). Getting Published in Academic Journals. Scientific Publishing, Doctoral colloquium, Olten.
  • Vu, Thao Thi; Ohnmacht, Timo; von Arx, Widar & Endrissat, Nada (27.08.2019). Business model innovation of coworking spaces in touristic mountain regions and urban areas of Switzerland. 3rd International Conference on Tourism and Business 2019, Salaya, Thailand.
  • Imhof, Sebastian; Frölicher, Jonas; von Arx, Widar & Vu, Thi Thao (25.08.2019). Shared Autonomous Vehicles in rural public transportation systems. Thredbo 16, Singapur.
  • Vu, Thao Thi; Imhof, Sebastian; von Arx, Widar; Frölicher, Jonas & Ohnmacht, Timo (25.08.2019). Potential Impacts of Ridesharing in Rural Switzerland. Thredbo 16 - International Conference Series on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport, Singapore.
  • Vu, Thao Thi & Ohnmacht, Timo (26.05.2019). The Impact of the Built Environment on Travel Behaviour: The Swiss Experience based on two National Travel Surveys. 15th World Conference on Transport Research, Mumbai, Indien.
  • Vu, Thi Thao; Endrissat, Nada; Ohnmacht, Timo & von Arx, Widar (04.12.2018). Digital Lives in Coworking Spaces: Do Mobile Lifestyles Reduce Rural-Urban Disparities? Digital Futures Network Day, Habitat Research Center, the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Vu, Thi Thao; von Arx, Widar & Frölicher, Jonas (27.08.2018). Swiss Way of Cooperation in the Leisure Travel and Tourism Industry: Long-lasting Relationships. The 68th AIEST Conference on Co-creating Tourism Experiences: Chances, Frontiers and Limitations, Treviso, Italy.
  • von Arx, Widar; Vu, Thi Thao & Wegelin, Philipp (31.08.2017). Weather Myths: How Bad is Bad Weather for Day Visits to Outdoor Recreation Destinations? The International Conference on Tourism and Business, Lucerne.
  • von Arx, Widar; Maarfield, Simon ; Vu, Thi Thao; Wegelin, Philipp & Frölicher, Jonas (14.08.2017). An analysis of international passenger train services development from and to Switzerland from 2007 to 2016. 15th International Conference on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport (Thredbo Conference), Stockholms, Sweden.
  • Vu, Thao; Wozniak, Thomas & Liebrich, Andreas (24.01.2017). Customer Engagement in Facebook Brand Communities: Measurement and Best Practices from the Airline Industry. ENTER 2017 Conference "eTourism: Sustaining Culture and Creativity", Rom.
  • Vu, Thao (13.04.2012). When the Pillar of the Home Shaking: Female Labor Migration and Stay-at-home Fathers in Vietnam, International Conference on Globalized Fatherhood, Yale University, USA.
  • Vu, Thao & Agergaard, Jytte (11.11.2010). ‘Doing Family’: Female Migrants and Family Transition in Rural Vietnam, International Conference on Asian Diversity in a Global Context, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Vu, Thao (16.06.2010). Shifting Gender Boundaries: Female Migration and Family Transition in Rural Vietnam, International Conference on Changing Family in a Changing World, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • Vu, Thao (28.05.2009). Female Migration and Social Transformation in Rural Vietnam, the 3rd Gendering Asia Network Conference on Gender, Mobility and Citizenship, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Achievements

Achievements - Commissions, memberships and external activities

  • Vu, Thao Thi. Reviewer. (01.11.2024). Transportation Planning and Technology.
  • Vu, Thao Thi. Reviewer. (2023). Department for Business and Research, Province of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy.
  • Vu, Thao Thi. Reviewer. (11.01.2022). Travel Behaviour and Society.
  • Vu, Thao Thi. Reviewer. (01.01.2021). International Journal of Sustainable Transportation.
  • Vu, Thao Thi. Reviewer. (15.11.2019). Research in Transportation Economics.
  • Vu, Thi Thao. Reviewtätigkeiten. (15.01.2019). Asia Pacific Viewpoint.
  • Vu, Thi Thao. Reviewtätigkeiten. (1.12.2017). Case Studies on Transport Policy.

Achievements - Awards and honours

  • Vu, Thao Thi; von Arx, Widar & Frölicher, Jonas (10.03.2020). Publikationspreis 2020 der Hochschule Luzern – Wirtschaft für Swiss Cooperation in the Travel and Tourism Sector: Long-term Relationships and Superior Performance. Journal of Travel Research, 1-17..