Counter Pedophilia Investigate Unit

Pratul Sharma

New Delhi, January 2010

Hotels and airlines will no longer allow the use of the Internet on their premises by anyone searching for child pornography or sites that peddle child sex tourism.

If any of their employees is found helping tourists abuse children, these industries will ensure the workers are sacked and arrested. Besides, all employees will be trained to keep an eye on paedophiles.

These are some of the guidelines framed for the tourism industry to curb child sex tourism. The guidelines have been drawn up by Pacific Asia Travel Association’s (PATA) India chapter and the ministry of tourism. Sources said state tourism departments will start implementing them in the next two months.

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It appears pedophiles are those who preferentially seek out children for sexual relationships; however many child sex tourists are “situational abusers” — individuals who do not consistently seek out children as sexual partners, but who do occasionally engage in sexual acts with children when the opportunity–i.e. vacationing in another country–presents itself. According to the NTV report, pedophiles and sex pests flushed out of Asia by the tsunamis have now embedded themselves in the coasts of Kenya where child sex tourism is fueled by poverty and also the internet.