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Sex Tourism In St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands: An Exploratory Study, Elizabeth Estes
Sex Tourism In St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands: An Exploratory Study, Elizabeth Estes
Department of Conflict Resolution Studies Theses and Dissertations
St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, is similar to other tourism dependent Caribbean nations where the tourism industry is dependent upon the `4 S's'- sun, sand, sea, and sex. This researcher posited that the phenomenon of sex tourism exists in St. Thomas as it does in other tourist destinations in the Caribbean like Jamaica, Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Barbados (Bailey and Ricketts, 2003; de Albuquerque, 1998; Munshi, 2006; Ryan and Kinder, 1996). The lacuna of any U.S. Virgin Islands sex tourism literature prompted this researcher to conduct an exploratory case study in St. Thomas to learn whether or …