by Shibu K. Nair and C.Jayakumar
December 2008

This hand book is being published to help NGOs and Local Governments to assist communities to manage discards in the ETP sites. The hand book will also help develop a sustainable plan in these sites to deal with waste so that it will not distract visitors or deny them the special experiences of the unique sites in rural India.

Solution Exchange- an initiative of the United Nations Agencies in India

Nearly 2 percent of the local adult population of the Kumarakom village on the eastern bank of the Vembanad Lake is employed in the tourism sector. The industry has illegally encroached upon many parts of the lake. Large-scale land filling is taking place in the lake, especially in Kumarakom and nearby areas of Kottayam district. Already several hundred houseboats sport boats are operating on the water surface. The sewage from resorts and houseboats are directly discharged into the lake and exhaust from motorboats is a major source of chemical pollutants. Reduced public access to the lake is another dimension of the expanding tourism. The traditional rights associated with use of the lake shore for various livelihood or domestic purposes have been affected.

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A Report on Trafficking of Woman and Children in India, 2002-2003 (Volume I)
NHRC - UNIFEM - ISS Project
Coordinator:Sankar Sen
Principal Investigator/Researcher:P.M. Nair IPS

Sex tourism has become a problem in Kerala, which has witnessed a tourist boom since the early '80s. Along with the growth of tourism, there has been an increasing victimisation of young children. Kerala Women's Commission received numerous letters of complaints from women tourists, about sex tourism in Kovalam. Hoteliers in areas like Qullion, Alleppy, Ernakulam promote sex tourism, because such services bring them extra income. Victims are often projected by the agents as college girls in search of fun and excitement, wanting to earn an extra buck. In places like Alleppy, foreign tourists come and stay in houseboats. This houseboat sex tourism is a new and thriving concept. It is safe, as there are no raids on the houseboats. In Kerala, although places like Kovalam and Fort Cochin have become sex tourism hot spots, police records indicate that enforcement agencies have turned a blind eye to the problem.

This  report is available on Planning commission Website

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.