Knowra Sex tourism Sex tourism Sex tourism is travel undertaken to obtain sexual services or sexual encounters, often involving commercial sex. It can intersect with exploitation, coercion, and human trafficking.
Human trafficking : The recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring, or receipt of people through coercion, deception, or abuse of vulnerability for exploitation. Some sex-tourism markets overlap with trafficking, though the concepts are not equivalent.
Sexual tourism : Travel motivated by sexual experiences, including commercial or noncommercial encounters. The phrase can include consensual encounters and is sometimes used more broadly than sex tourism.
Human rights : Basic rights and freedoms recognized as belonging to every person. Debates focus on how sex tourism affects bodily autonomy, safety, equality, and freedom from exploitation.
Sex tourism in Thailand : Travel to Thailand for sexual services or encounters, a subject shaped by tourism, migration, and local histories. Thailand's experience is a prominent, distinct case within the broader phenomenon.
Global Code of Ethics for Tourism : A framework adopted by the World Tourism Organization to guide responsible tourism development and conduct. Its principles address tourism responsibilities toward human rights and the protection of vulnerable groups.
Child sexual exploitation : The sexual abuse or exploitation of a person under 18 for another person's benefit or gain. Travel-related demand can enable child exploitation, including through commercial sexual abuse.
Sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism : The sexual exploitation of children by travelers, tourism workers, or people exploiting tourism settings. This narrower concept identifies child victims and travel-related settings explicitly.
Gender inequality : Unequal power, resources, and opportunities among people because of gender. Gendered economic and social inequalities can shape who sells, buys, and controls sexual services.
R&R in the Vietnam War : Leave periods during the Vietnam War when U.S. military personnel traveled to designated recreation destinations. Military leave travel contributed to demand for commercial sex in some Southeast Asian destinations.
ECPAT International : A global network working to end the sexual exploitation of children. The organization documents and campaigns against child sexual exploitation linked to travel and tourism.
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