A Situational Analysis of Child Sex Tourism- 30 December 2003 ...

RemunerationHotels have contacts with adult sex workers, pimps andother middlemen – rickshaw pullers, van pullers, pettytraders. These people make contact with street childrenand bring them to tourist lodges and hotels as per thedemand placed by customers.Tourists make contact with families. They become veryfriendly with them by providing money for their dailyneeds. This gives tourist the legitimacy to take theirchildren out for few hours and sometimes for a period oftime as well.“I did not know this could happen to my child. He used tostay with us. One –day he asked permission to take mychild out for a walk. When she came back, she wasbleeding and that white man never came back to myvillage.” (Arati, mother of the child victim)Most of the children interviewed have mentioned thatthey had sex with varied range of tourists. Tourists whopay just Rs. 50/- from tourists who pay Rs. 200/-. Butforeign tourists provide them with toys, dresses andsometimes money to renovate their houses or to buildhouse as well.According to a child “tourists (Foreign) are veryinteresting people – if you make them happy they will givewhatever you want, but if they are not, they can beat youup as well.”A Situational Analysis of Child Sex Tourism in India (Kerala and Goa) 28