ABSTRACT
The purchase of sexual services adds insult to injury with a new dimension to institutional responsibility and corporate norms of individual behaviour. Business environments that treat such sexual services as a normal way of doing business effectively discriminate against women in their own organisations, who are excluded from the bonds made and deals done in such settings. Moreover, responsible investors may be horrified to learn that what has been charged as ‘food’ at a hotel by a corporate executive was actually sex. A group of organisations including the UN World Tourism Organisation, Accor Hotels, and NGOs advocating the end of child prostitution, set up the Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Commercial Exploitation in Travel and Tourism in 1997, committing to take steps to help prevent the facilitation of child sexual exploitation.
