Equations, Banagalore

The need for intervention with regard to children those are commercially and sexually exploited is enormous. To aid in designing such interventions, we have attempted to lay out in as much as details possible, a sample intervention model and a list of demands to combat tourism related commercial sexual exploitation of children. This was one of the primary goals of the research project that would enable interventionists and organisations working on child right issues to look at various suggestions that have emerge from the study.

Third World Resurgence, Issue 207/208

Dr. T T Sreekumar

Mass tourism in its present form began to take root in many developing countries in Asia when the liberalisation drive from the early 1980s helped a nascent hotel industry in the region to masquerade as the tourism industry. Following this development, massive tourism schemes and projects were planned and implemented in Asia disregarding the concerns raised by civil society organisations and ignoring national and international norms, leading to severe environmental damage and displacement of local communities.

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Due to privatisation of a vital Common Resource at Kovalam Beach in the South of Kerala, tourism has led to severe water scarcity in the area. Especially in the peak season, the demand from the hotels and restaurants leads to groundwater depletion, affecting local communities whose purchasing power is far below that of the tourism industry and the tourists. The high consumption of a common good by the tourism industry is an illegal form of water privatisation.

The Kerala Tourism Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan recently announced that the creation of Special Tourism Zones (STZ) would be considered if private parties having large tracts of land approach the State Government. He also declared that government would change the rules relating to acquisition of land for tourism projects in the State.The government’s plan to announce STZs in Kerala has to be challenged because it will augment the pressure over the natural and other resources such as land, water, forests and will lead to environmental destruction, revenue losses and lack of real economic development of the state, breakdown of governance systems especially of the Panchayats with the creation of enclaves and lack of equal and non-exploitative employment opportunities for local communities in STZs.

Babu P. George & Vinitha Varghese EJBO- Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2007) page 40-48

Tourism development in Alleppey (Kerala) began to gear up in the early 1990s leading to a major resource allocation crisis.Tourists consumed a disproportionately large chunk of the consumptive resources depriving the local population of the traditional control over the same. Sex-tourism though houseboats, especially involving women and minors, is a major disruptive development worth mentioning. Houseboat tourism generates other human rights violations as well: the sewages pumped out of these to the backwaters make it extremely unhealthy for human consumption. The government did not do anything to control the water pollution or bring in alternative sources of potable water.