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

8. RECOMMENDATIONSThe need for intervention with regard to children those are commercially and sexuallyexploited is enormous. To aid in designing such interventions, we have attempted to layout in as much as details possible, a sample intervention model and a list of demands tocombat tourism related commercial sexual exploitation of children. This was one of theprimary goals of the research project that would enable interventionists andorganisations working on child right issues to look at various suggestions that haveemerge from the study.8.1.Tourism Authorities1. To develop mechanism that would help create a framework under which the“commitment to benefit local communities” could be dealt with (in partnershipwith local NGOs, community and Dept. of Women and Child Development).2. To conduct social auditing.3. To report annually on the situation of women and children in tourism areas (inAnnual report).4. Developing networks and processes for sharing information on CST anddeveloping interventions in collaboration with tourism industry and thedepartment.5. Penalties against hotels and tourism service providers who continue to permithotels rooms to be used for purposes of CST.8.2.Tour Operators and/or Hoteliers1. To train the personnel in the country of origin and travel destinations (Inpartnership with dept. of tourism, Dept. of Women and Child Development;Ministry of Information and broadcasting and NGOs).2. Create a system for tour operators in sending countries to check m\names onpassenger lists against known list of paedophiles.3. Providing information to tourists on CST and request them to help dealing withthe problem by informing if they see any doubtful behaviour of touristsaccompanying children.4. Establishing contact with user hotels requiring them to prevent unregisteredchildren (in the register book while check in) being taken into tourist's room5. Developing an ethical policy regarding trafficking and commercial sexualexploitation of children.6. To introduce a clause in contracts with suppliers, stating a common repudiationof trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children (In partnershipwith Dept. of Tourism).7. To provide information to travellers by means of catalogues, brochures, in-flightfilms, ticket-slips, home pages, etc.8. To provide information to local "key persons" at the destinations (in partnershipwith NGOs).A Situational Analysis of Child Sex Tourism in India (Kerala and Goa) 60