Awareness of child sex tourism among young Finnish travellers
Calderon Nurmi, Sara Liliana (2014)
HAAGA-HELIA ammattikorkeakoulu
2014
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2014082813644
http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2014082813644
Tiivistelmä
This bachelor’s thesis is written about one of the dark sides of tourism: child sex tourism. It is commisioned by a Finnish NGO, Reilun Matkailun Yhdistys and the aim was to conduct a research in order to find out about the awareness and attitudes of young Finnish travelers about child sex tourism.
The theoretical framework consists of theory about child sex tourism and abot the much wider problem from which child sex tourism is origined: commercial sexual exploitation of children. Furthermore, theory about the target group, young travellers, is included..
The research was conducted between April- June 2014 by using an online questionnaire. The questionnaire was developed by using a mixed-method research desing. The quantitative part was used to measure the awareness, and the qualitative part was used for getting a more in-deph information abou the attitudes of the respondents.
The results were analysed using SPSS, Webropol and Excel. The author managed to find an answer to the reaserch question, as results proved that youg Finnish travellers are generally well aware of what the term ‘child sex tourism’ means and can describe it correctly with their own words. They recognize the phenomenon as being wrong, and would participate in preventing it by reporting cases of CST if they would know about a safe and easy way to do it.
The theoretical framework consists of theory about child sex tourism and abot the much wider problem from which child sex tourism is origined: commercial sexual exploitation of children. Furthermore, theory about the target group, young travellers, is included..
The research was conducted between April- June 2014 by using an online questionnaire. The questionnaire was developed by using a mixed-method research desing. The quantitative part was used to measure the awareness, and the qualitative part was used for getting a more in-deph information abou the attitudes of the respondents.
The results were analysed using SPSS, Webropol and Excel. The author managed to find an answer to the reaserch question, as results proved that youg Finnish travellers are generally well aware of what the term ‘child sex tourism’ means and can describe it correctly with their own words. They recognize the phenomenon as being wrong, and would participate in preventing it by reporting cases of CST if they would know about a safe and easy way to do it.