Sex and tourism : journeys of romance, love, and lust

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Various issues on sex tourism are being discussed in this book. The topics include among others off-season romance in Crete, sex tourism in Cambodia, a South Korean museum dedicated to women forced into sexual slavery, the sexual aspects of travel in Canada, cross-cultural marriage in Thailand, gentlemen's clubs in New Orleans, Australian river guides and their potential affairs with clients, child sex tourism, trafficking of Nepali girls for Indian brothels. The wide spectrum of articels show the complexity of this issue. The editors of this book are both teaching tourism at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. But not all articels are written by academics some of them are personal accounts. I. The setting: Chapter 1: Bob McKercher, Thomas G. Bauer: Conceptual framework of the nexus between tourism, romance, and sex (S. 3); Chapter 2: Tom Selänniemi: On holiday in the liminoid playground: place, time, and self in tourism (S. 19); II. Romance on the road: Chapter 3: Lina M. Wong: Island Girl (S. 35); Chapter 3: Hilary du Cros, Dominique du Cros: Romance, retsina, and the reality in Crete (S. 43); Chapter 5: Erik Cohen: Transnational marriage in Thailand: the dynamics of extreme heterogamy (S. 57); III. The tourism industry as facilitator: Chapter 6: Leo Jago: Sex tourism: an accomodation provider's perspective (S. 85); Chapter 7: Mark Bazerman: The adventure in adventure travel (S. 95); Chapter 8: Martin Fluker, Margaret Deery: Condoms in the first aid kit: river guides, clients and sex (S. 109); Chapter 9: Jon G. Donlon, Jerome F. Agrusa: Attraction of the naughty-gentlemen's clubs as a tourism resource: the French quarter example (S. 119); IV. The dark side: Chapter 10: Sallie Yea: Former comfort women as touristic objects in South Korea (S. 139); Chapter 11: Nina Rao: The dark side of tourism and sexuality: trafficking of Nepali girls for Indian brothels (S. 155); Chapter 12: Jerome F. Agrusa: AIDS and tourism: a deadly combination (S. 167); Chapter 13: Paul Leung: Sex tourism: the case of Cambodia (S. 181); Chapter 14: Christine Beddoe:Ending child sex tourism: a vision for the future (S. 197)