Sex in Tourism: Exploring the Light and the Dark

by Neil Carr (Editor), Liza Berdychevsky (Editor)

Overview

This book encompasses the diversity and complexity of sex in tourism, incorporating the light, dark and shades of grey in between. It brings together work and ideas from a diverse array of researchers from around the world and examines the affects and effects of diverse sexual encounters in tourism, romance tourism, sex tourism and sexual exploitation in tourism – including the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism, and sexual harassment. Sex in tourism has arguably been an understudied area of research relative to the central roles that sex plays within tourism experiences. This volume explores the complexity and nuanced nature of sex in tourism in more detail. It will be of interest to students and researchers of tourism impacts, tourist behaviour, hospitality management, destination management and development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845418588
Publisher:	Channel View Publications
Publication date:	11/04/2021
Series:	Aspects of Tourism , #93
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.15(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Neil Carr is a professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research interests centre on understanding behaviour within tourism and leisure experiences, with a particular emphasis on children and families, sex, and animals.

Liza Berdychevsky is an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her research interests revolve at the nexus of heath, wellbeing and sexuality in various tourism and leisure contexts, with a particular focus on ageing, gender and sexual health education.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Contributors

Chapter 1. Liza Berdychevsky and Neil Carr: Introducing the Light and Dark Sides of Sex in Tourism and the Fifty Shades of Grey in Between: Using the Social-Ecological Model

Chapter 2. S. Emre Dilek and Neil Carr: Ethical Debates on Sex Tourism, and Sex and Tourism

Part 1: Light Side of Sex in Tourism: Affects and Effects of the Diverse Sexual Encounters in Tourism

Chapter 3. Liza Berdychevsky: Gender Differences and Similarities in Perceptions of and Experiences with Sex and Sexual Risk Taking in Tourism

Chapter 4. Neil Carr and Leonardo Nava Jimenez: Sex and Summer Camps

Chapter 5. Phoebe Everingham, Amie Matthews and Tamara Young: Embodying Liminality: Exploring the ‘Affects’ of Sexual Encounters in Backpacker and Volunteer Tourism

Chapter 6. Octávio Sacramento: Tourism, the Internet and Euro-Brazilian Intimacies

Chapter 7. Elsa Soro, Sheila Sánchez Bergara and Jose A. Mansilla López: Online Dating on the Move: At the Intersection of Sexuality, Tourism and Space Representation

Part 2: Fifty Shades of Grey of Sex in Tourism: Romance Tourism, Sex Tourism or Exploitation Tourism?

Chapter 8. S. Emre Dilek: Sex Tourism Beyond the Human

Chapter 9. Amanda Jenkins, Roya Rahimi and Peter Robinson: Sex Tourism in the Caribbean: A Case Study of Negril Beach Boys

Chapter 10. George Ariya and Ruth Nyamasyo: Sex Tourism and Girls' Education: Reflective Voices of ‘Girls’ at Mtwapa, Kenya

Chapter 11. Naomi Moswete: Examining Awareness, Knowledge and Perceptions of Tourism and its Links to HIV/AIDS in Maun, Botswana

Part 3: Dark Side of Sex and Tourism: Child Sex Tourism and Sexual Harassment

Chapter 12. Irina Oliveira and Vitor Ambrósio: Sexual Harassment in the Hotel Housekeeping Department

Chapter 13. Frans de Man and Arnoud Lagendijk: The Distorted Reach to Local Stakeholders in the Global Fight against Child Sex Tourism: The Case of Thailand, the Dominican Republic and the Gambia

Chapter 14. Athina Papageorgiou: Child Sex Tourism and the Role of Local Communities

Chapter 15. Neil Carr and Liza Berdychevsky: Delving into the Uncharted Terrains of Sex in Tourism:
Conclusions and Ways Forward

Index

Editorial Reviews

Neil Carr and Liza Berdychevsky deserve all accolades for editing a book that focuses on the nexus between sex and tourism, openly illuminating its light and dark sides. The readers of this thought-provoking book will be exposed to the intricate and profound ties between sex and tourism affecting individuals, communities, societies, and the tourism industry.

Yaniv Poria

This edited book presents a balanced view of sex in tourism, including its various merits and faults. The book serves as an ideal reference for researchers, students, practitioners, and general readers interested in the topic.

International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure - Jun Wen

This book provides a contemporary collection of the latest ideas about sex in tourism. It’s refreshing to see the contributions from African scholars, who give some unique insights on this topic that both add to and complement our knowledge of sex in relation to tourism. The book will be a useful resource for graduate classes and by researchers in a range of different disciplines.

Heather J. Gibson

As with all the best edited books, the big picture is here – Carr and Berdychevsky succeed in reducing what is irreducible to a comprehensible conceptual pattern – but so is the telling empirical detail and the required moral sensitivity, which brings us up close to the otherworldliness of sex in tourism.

Tony Blackshaw