Sex Tourism

Professor Chris Ryan is Professor of Tourism at the Waikato Management School, University of Waikato, New Zealand and Professor Colin Michael Hall is Professor and Head of the Centre for Tourism, University of Otago, New Zealand.

• 1: Holidays, sex and identity: a history of social development; 2: Tourism and prostitution: a symbiotic relationship; 3: Paradigms of sex tourism; 4: Bodies, identity, self-fulfillment and self-denial; 5: Bodies on the margin: gay and lesbian tourism; 6: Trafficking sex; 7: Regulating bodies and desire: the state, sex and travel; 8: After word

'Sex Tourism is an excellent, interesting and exhaustive work which tackles a wide range of difficult issues in an innovative way.' - Jenny Phillimore, LSA Newsletter'A valuable contribution to the literature because it brings together a disparate body of research into one volume under a single theoretical context It is a positive step toward the development of a more critical perspective on the construction of sex tourism.' - Vincent J. Del Casino Jr, California State University for Cultural Geographies'Sex Tourism is to be hugely welcomed as an addition to the tourism sociology literature ... an excellent study, which is scholarly, yet accessible, and will undoubtedly become essential reading for researchers.' - International Journal of Tourism Research