ABSTRACT
Discussing the role of tourism and its impact on child prostitution in Thailand, Jeremy Seabrook, in No Hiding Place, writes:
The expansion of travel and vacations, journeys and holidays have made tourism the largest single industry on earth. It is inevitable that among the vast number of people traveling to the Third World, some will go with purposes less honourable than the pleasure of traveling. In the mid-1990s, when about six million people visited Thailand annually, almost two-thirds of these were single males. Among them, it is only to be expected that some were attracted by the relative ease with which underage young people might be procured for sexual purposes. 1
