Sex and Tourism

Journeys of Romance, Love, and Lust

Kaye Sung Chon, Thomas Bauer, Bob Mckercher, Thomas Bauer, Bob McKercher

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780789012029
• eBook ISBN: 9781136391118
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Industry
• Index: Business

Explore the complex relationship between tourism and intimacy in this new book with a worldwide perspective!

With a unique combination of academic and personal accounts, Sex and Tourism: Journeys of Romance, Love, and Lust takes you behind the scenes with motel owners, adventure travel guides, backpackers, and others working on all sides of the international tourism industry. The editors have created a model that views the situation from three different perspectives: tourist, tourism provider, and nature of the encounter. Unlike other related volumes, this book is not just about the sex trade, but also about the role of tourism in love, marriage, and relationships.

The global focus of Sex and Tourism will introduce you to:

• off-season romance on the island of Crete
• sex tourism in Cambodia
• a South Korean museum dedicated to women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military
• the sexual aspects of adventure travel in Canada
• cross-cultural marriage in Thailand
• gentleman's clubs in New Orleans
• Australian river guides and their potential liaisons with clients

People who travel to escape their day-to-day lives often become involved in situations they would never find themselves in at home. Good or bad, many of these situations are examined in Sex and Tourism. You'll learn about the illegal trafficking of girls in Nepal, worldwide programs for combating child sex rings, and the lethal combination of AIDS and tourism, but you'll also find accounts of love and romance far from home. You will see how the tourism industry can act as a facilitator of human intimacy and what happens when different cultural realities collide.

Anyone involved in recreation, leisure, anthropology, social science, or tourism will be interested in this book. Sex and Tourism is an enlightening guide to the complex world found at the crossroads of sightseeing and sex.

Index

Page numbers followed by the letter “f” indicate figures; those followed by the letter “t” indicate tables.

Aborigines, 39

Absolutely Fabulous, 48

Accommodations

service characteristics, 88-89

and sex tourism, 86-93

Activism, 149-150

Activity

adventure tourism, 105-106

place meaning, 20

Adult movie channels, 15

Adventure tourism. See also Whitewater rafting

definition of, 110

group composition, 96, 98-103

as romantic holiday, 95-97

trip phases, 103-108

Advertising, 88, 90

Africa, 13-14, 28

Agia Galini (Crete)

description of, 44-45, 54

host community, 46-47, 52

travelers to, 47-51

AIDS

in Cambodia, 182, 191

Ho Chi Minh City survey, 175, 176t

and prostitution, 157

and tourism, 168-169

transmission of, 169

in Vietnam, 167, 176, 177

Alcohol, 174-175, 175t

Angkorean Empire, 183

Angkorean monuments, 183, 184

Animator, river guide, 115

Archeological sites, 43, 44

Aristotle, 23

Arrival, 104-105

Asia

brothel conditions, 162

heterosexual relations, 157

intermarriage in, 60

sexual trafficking, 158

Asian Development Bank, 186

Asian Women’s Fund (AWF), 144

Assembly, 103

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), 191

Athens, 20

Attachment, 20

Australia

child sex tourism law, 201-202

ECPAT, 205

romance tourism, 8, 35-36, 38-40, 41

Authenticity

of latex nipples, 130

and tourism, 20

Bahanwati, P. N., 145

Baker, Josephine, 123

Bangkok

child sex tourism, 200

prostitution in, 60-61

sex tourism, 169

Bataille, Georges, 26, 27

“Beach boys,” 109, 185

Bearding, 119, 135n.1

Beiji...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Sex and Tourism
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the Editors
• Contributors
• Preface
• SECTION I: THE SETTING
• SECTION II: ROMANCE ON THE ROAD
• SECTION III: THE TOURISM INDUSTRY AS FACILITATOR
• SECTION IV: THE DARK SIDE
• Index
• Also By