The Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Children - An Ugly Face of Tourism
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The Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Children

- An Ugly Face of Tourism

Research Papers and Case Studies
A particularly ugly and alarming face of tourism is the growing nexus between tourism, trafficking and child sexual exploitation. Poor tourism planning leads to displacement of communities and loss of traditional livelihoods. This pushes children into tourism-linked work like selling trinkets and services and working in small eateries. The gap between tourists and local communities and the celebration of consumerism that tourism is mostly about, defines these gaps more sharply. The increased demand for sex services by both domestic and foreign tourists and the cultural permissiveness that tourism brings in are other factors that contribute to the sexual exploitation of children. Child trafficking is one of the worst forms of human rights violations. This briefing sheet highlights this crime, states reasons for its occurrence and the attempts at combating it.
Geographies
India

EQUATIONS is a research, policy, and advocacy organisation working on tourism and development issues in India. Our work has focused on the economic, environmental, social, cultural, political and administrative impacts of tourism particularly on people living in and around tourism destinations. We collaborate closely with organisations and peoples movements, to influence people-centered forms of tourism & policies that ensure significant local benefits and take into account the negative impacts of an unbridled growth of tourism.

 

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