Sexual tourism will always be part of Thailand's economy

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Many facts show that Thailand is worldwide known for its sexual tourism and unfortunately this kind of tourism has an economical interest. According to the Taipei Times (2003) prostitution has been illegal in Thailand since 1928. However, it plays a major role both in the Thai society and the Thai economy: "The industry is estimated to account for an estimated 3 percent of Thailand's economy, or about US$4.3 billion a year", "Thailand holds debate on legalizing prostitution" (2003, p. 5). Sexual tourism is a phenomenon that occurs worldwide.

According to Diotallevi (1995) from the WTO (World Tourism Organization), sex tourism refers to trips made by tourists with the intention of exploiting local residents at the destination in terms of compensated sexual relationships. The United Nations condemns this type of tourism due to negative health, social and cultural repercussion on host and destination countries alike. Furthermore sex tourism is often linked not only with prostitution but also with child abuse and human trafficking. According to World Vision Child Sex Tourism Prevention Project (2007), international profit-making sex trade business concerns two million children, in most cases against their will. he majority of these children are under the age of sixteen.

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[...] At least government should make his best to stop children abuse and children prostitution. Another problem is raised in the process of stopping sexual tourism: fighting against prostitution has a cost, a very expensive one because the state has to hire policemen, train them, and build new jails and the whole infrastructure that goes with it. Moreover, the corruption factor has to be taken into consideration. The problem is that it's hard to combat such a vast problem as prostitution when the laws that are passed are not efficient due to the lack of integrity of the people who are supposed to apply them. [...]

[...] Sexual tourism will always be part of Thailand's economy Methodology Sexual tourism is a well known worldwide occurrence. There are lots of literature on related topics such as prostitution and children abuse. However, most of researches were done on online databases such as Lexis-Nexis as well as online newspaper articles and official websites. Findings The Common Language Project (2011) states that In Thailand 1 out of 10 locals live below the official poverty index of USD 1.32 per day or USD 40 per month. [...]

[...] Tourism is a major economical activity for Thailand: it represents approximately of the total economy. Phayakvichien (2005) states that Thailand wants to develop its tourism sector, and expect to augment the revenues made by the industry from US$ 9.6 millions in 2004 to US$ 19.720 millions in 2010. The Thai government's policy towards tourism is to generate more revenues for the local population and the government itself. As a result new revenues will contribute to the development of the Thai population and will help fight against the sex workers and the sex tourists. [...]

[...] Therefore this study will prove that no matter what the Thai government does or not, sexual tourism will always be part of Thailand's economy. We will first state the findings we found on sexual tourism in Thailand and explain them. In the second part we will analyze what we found on this topic and extract what defends our thesis. The analysis of the findings will show the effects of the sexual tourism on the image of the country itself which means from an external point of view. [...]

[...] Sexual tourism will always be part of Thailand's economy The whole structure is based on the tacit agreement of all parts. Therefore Thailand should accept the fact that most of the tourist are looking for sexual services. The Thai government could drastically decrease the exploitation of children by establishing new and stricter laws and controls. The government could legalize prostitution which would make this industry under control and they could regulate more easily abuses in this industry. By doing that, they would create a new image of Thailand. [...]