Sex Tourism Case Study

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Introduction: Joining a vacation travel tour is popular around the world, but there is another tour also not a strange to us which is “sex tour”. There are more than 1,000,000 underage prostitutes in Thailand and Brazil, which are the top two country of underage prostitutes around the world (). Also, there are around 30 percent of teenage girls who had participated in sexual transaction in Kenya (). No one can denies that the sex tour is being serious in the world, especially in the low developed country like Thailand, Brazil and Kenya. And the age of the sexual workers are being younger and younger. So, this article is going to discuss what sex tourism is, what the impact of this unethical behaviours is and what decision relevant stakeholders …show more content…

Since providing sexual service may gain more money than being a normal worker in the destination likes Asia (Female Sex Trafficking in Asia, 2008). And the traditional culture of Asia, which the treatment of females as inferior to males, also encourage the parents sell their children to human traffickers. This phenomenon not only occur in Asia, but also in other place likes Europe (2014). The children will have a childhood trauma. And these value will carve on their life and maybe transfer to the next generation. This is becoming a culture of the destination that the residents believe and follow to sell their child to be a sex workers. So, sex tourism is encouraging the female sex trafficking and having a negative impact of the destination’s …show more content…

Since most of the sex tour destination is low developed country, the local residents lack of the sense of the sexually transmitted diseases. There are 100 new HIV cases every month in Indonesia (Campbell, 2015). The residents do not have enough education and knowledge to prevent the sexually transmitted diseases. The sex tourists do not have any responsibility after they boost the diseases increase. Yet, the increasing diseases will influence the local resident’s health, daily life and the mode of life. So, sex tourism is destroying the ecology of the

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