Oskaras Vorobjovas-pinta
Lecturer (Management)
Department of Business and Economics
University of Tasmania
Australia
Biography
Dr Oskaras Vorobjovas-Pinta is a casual lecturer and a research associate at the University of Tasmania. His research interests are tourist behaviour, tourism management and gay tourism. Beyond the LGBT tourism space, Oskaras has broader interest and experience in innovative tourism research, as reflected by his work as a research assistant and associate on projects on tourism resilience, recreation vehicle users, hard-truth tourism and on technology-enabled advanced tracking of visitors to Tasmania. These projects have each been built on extensive stakeholder and industry engagement. Most recently Oskaras been appointed to a project delivering some of these innovations to a European tourism market.
Research Interest
His research interests are tourist behaviour, tourism management and gay tourism. Beyond the LGBT tourism space, Oskaras has broader interest and experience in innovative tourism research, as reflected by his work as a research assistant and associate on projects on tourism resilience, recreation vehicle users, hard-truth tourism and on technology-enabled advanced tracking of visitors to Tasmania.
Publications
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Vorobjovas-Pinta O. Dating apps and gay travellers: The organisation and divisions of physical and digital spaces. InANZALS 13th Biennial conference.
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Vorobjovas-Pinta O, Robards B. The shared oasis: An insider ethnographic account of a gay resort. Tourist Studies. 2017:1468797616687561.
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Vorobjovas-Pinta O, Hardy A. Rethinking gay tourism: a review of literature. CAUTHE 2014: Tourism and Hospitality in the Contemporary World: Trends, Changes and Complexity. 2014:635.
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Vorobjovasâ€Pinta O, Hardy A. The evolution of gay travel research. International Journal of Tourism Research. 2016 Jul 1;18(4):409-16.
