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Global Monitoring Report on the Status of Action Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children - Thailand

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ECPAT International, 2006.

Thailand has marketed itself as a popular tourism destination in Asia, and as such, related entertainment businesses have flourished, including sex shops and shows where not only adults, but also boys and girls provide sex services. Several cities in Thailand suffer from the impacts of sexual exploitation of children in tourism, notably Bangkok, Pattaya, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and Phuket. Children are readily available in sex establishments and are also approached directly in the street by tourists seeking sexual contact.1 While sex establishments and hotels are the main venues for this exploitation, a number of cases suggest that, increasingly, tourists and foreign residents rent long-term accommodation to abuse children and produce child pornography materials more freely, as doing so in hotels and brothels would entail greater exposure and risks. Such materials are then widely sold or distributed through Internet facilities.

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Global Monitoring Report on the Status of Action Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children - Thailand