CHAPTER 7

Protective Environments for Children in

Destinations
Objectives:

 Know the various national laws protecting children

 Understand the importance of making the environment safe for children

 Learn how tourism may affect the children and that policies must protecting them must be in place

 Know the various agencies involved in ensuring the protection of children from harmful tourism
activities

 Learn as to how the various tourism and hospitality providers can ensure a safe environment for
children
 Protective Environments for Children in Tourism
Destination
1. Sexual exploitation of children means the use for sexual gratification    by adults for remuneration
in cash or kind to the child or a third party. Technology, urbanization, globalization, and international
trade and travel have greatly facilitated the sexual exploitation of children for commercial purposes. 

2. While tourism is not the cause of child sexual exploitation, child sex tourists make sure of the
facilities offered by tour companies, hotels, resorts restaurants, airlines and other transportation
companies.

3. Over half (57.1%) of the participants indicated that they had witnessed situations involving the
exploitation or abuse of children while travelling in the region.
4. Child Protection Code - (Code of Conduct for Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation
in Travel and Tourism), tourism and travel enterprises implement measures in their day to day
business and utilize their wide network of international business partners and travelers.

5. Many suppliers of tourism services (tour operators, guest houses, airline companies travel agents,
bars, restaurants, etc) have recognized the key role they can play to protect children and have
adopted the tourism child protection.
Organizations that commit themselves to The Code implement
the following six criteria:
1. To establish a policy and procedures against sexual exploitation of children.
2. To train employees in children's right the preventions of sexual exploitation and how to report suspected
cases.
3. To include a clause in contracts throughout the value chain stating a common repudiation and zero tolerance
policy of sexual exploitation of children.
4. To provide information to travellers on children's right, the prevention of sexual exploitation  of children and
how to report suspected cases.
5. To support, collaborate and engage stakeholders in the prevention of sexual exploitation of children.
6. To report annually on their implementation of Code-related activities.
Law and Policies, Local And International
+ Children who arrived in UK are protected under the children act
1989.This is not case. Under the current scheme, trafficked
children do not receive the level of care and supervision that is
appropriate care under the children act 1989, this is not case.
Under the current scheme, trafficked children do not receive the
level of care and supervision that is appropriate position.
Role of various agencies in policy relative to
protective environments for children in destination.
+ Government and private agencies are task with upholding the
law, disseminating information providing exercise,training,advice
and child advocacy, have detailed experience in the area of child
safety and can assist the hotel and travel industry to become
child safe.
Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR)
1.The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Department of
Tourism (DOT) have teamed up to ensure the government’s biodiversity conservation
efforts would not be compromised by ongoing tourism development projects in various
parts of the country.

2. In line with the Aquino administration’s converge strategy for sustainable development, a
memorandum of agreement (MOA) was entered into by the DENR and the DOT to make
sure that known ecotourism spot are preserved and threatened species living in those areas
are well protected.
Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR)
3. The agreement was signed by Environment Secretary Ramon J.P. Paje and Tourism
secretary Ramon Jimenez Jr. According to Paje, preserving a biodiversity that attracts
both local and foreign tourists can lead to sustainable tourism. “The best way to
promote tourism is to protect the country’s natural resources,” Paje said “we have to
protect the environment to make tourism more sustainable.”

4. Paje cited as example the world renowned Boracay Island where remains imperative
to maintain and even improve the quality of its beaches to guarantee the contained
presence of tourism in the area. He also underscored the importance od preserving
natural monuments and endangered animals that serve also as tourist attraction.
Literacy Tourism
Literary Tourism is a type of cultural tourism that deals with
places and events from fictional text as well as the lives of their
authors. This could include following the route taken by a
fictional character, visiting particular place associated with a novel
or a novelist, such as their home, or visiting a poet’s grave. Most
literary tourism is focused on famous works, more modern works
that are written to specifically promote tourism are called tourism
fiction.