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    Unfortunately, Cambodia is also known for sexual tourism and in particular child sex tourism. The international community recognizes Cambodia’s trafficking epidemic, which child sex tourism falls under, and the United States ranks Cambodia as Tier Two on its Trafficking Persons Watch List. It is important to note that there is no internationally agreed upon definition of child sex tourism which in return perpetuates the problem. One may broadly define child sex tourism as the “sexual exploitation of children

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    and psychologically but the most gruesome method is for sexual exploitation and pornography. Child pornography is historically extremely difficult to define. The first brush occurrence of child pornography with American law was the memorable case of Jacobeelis v. Ohio 378 US 184 in 1964 (Gillespie, 2010, p. 19). In this case, the well-known phrase of “I know it when I see it” is used to describe how child pornographic material differs from adult pornography by Supreme Court Justice Stewart. This phrase

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    Essay Sex Tourism

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    Sex Tourism Introduction Sex Tourism is increasingly spread from one country to the next, especially in developing countries, because the Tourism is one of the big parts revenue for many countries in the word today. This kind of industry has become well-known to the travelers based not by advertising and promotional campaigns, but word-of-mouth that boots-up the demand for tourism destinations. The Sex Tourism becomes the major issue that the world leaders have to step-in in order to prevent

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    Exploitation in Travel and Tourism. Marilyn was recognized as one of the world’s most influential women leaders; under her leadership, Carlson Company employed over 150,000 people worldwide and achieved over $37 billion in annual sales in 2006 (Lawrence & Weber, 2014). She had a visionary outlook and was always looking for potential issues that could impact relationships with stakeholders. In some parts of the world, the tourism industry was exploiting children and teen girls for sex trafficking. It had

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    day. Did the memory of child prostitution run through your mind? No? How about having your rights and innocence completely stripped away from you? About ten million children are involved in prostitution worldwide (B.Willis, 2002), with India consisting of one million child prostitutes; forty percent the country’s total prostitution population (CNN, 2009). In most cases, children are kidnapped and forced into prostitution or take part in what is known as “survival sex” to provide basic needs

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    Child sex tourism; a form of human trafficking; has taken many definitions some which include flesh peddling, child slavery, child labor, children for sale and child prostitution. International and local laws prohibit any form of child exploitation. Child sex tourism is a human rights violation that is affecting millions of children globally. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child defines a child as any person under the age of 18. Child sex tourism is defined by the UN as “tourism

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    Asia and the Pacific has defined child sexual abuse as: “ Contacts or interactions between a child and an older or more knowledge child or adult ( a stranger, sibling or person in a position of authority, such as a parent or a caretaker) when the child is being used as an object of gratification for an older child's or adult's sexual needs. These contacts or interactions are carried out against the child using force, trickery, bribes, threats or pressure.” 1 Child sexual exploitation includes a

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    Child prostitution is prostitution that involves exploiting children for a sexual act. The word usually refers to prostitution of a minor, or someone who is under the legal age of consent. In most places child prostitution is illegal, but not all. Sex trafficking is usually the first step to child prostitution. Sex trafficking is when a child is kidnapped or tricked into becoming involved in the black market sex trade or “survival sex.” “Survival sex” is when a child forced to engage in sexual acts

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    Child prostitution has been defined by the UN as "the act of engaging or offering the services of a child to perform sexual acts for money or other consideration with that person or any other person". The issue of child prostitution in Sri Lanka is that children are being forced to revert to selling their bodies for money to survive. Tourists specially come to Sri Lanka for the purpose of finding a young prostitute, male or female. The main issue involving this unfortunate situation is that practically

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    Carlson's Reputation Risk

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    business to the world, Carlson Companies had developed a very promising hotel property in Costa Rica. And at that time, Costa Rica was a notorious area for child trafficking and prostitution. So, when Marilyn Carlson Nelson became the CEO of Carlson companies, she was facing the challenge to protect children from sexual exploitation in the tourism industry. Then, in 2004, Marilyn lead Carlson companies signed the Code

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