Sex education for local tourism/hospitality employees: addressing a local health need
Bauer, I.L.
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease 7(6): 371-374
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 1477-8939 PMID: 19945015 DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2009.10.003Document Number: 208983
Health concerns arising from sexual relationships between tourists and locals usually focus on the travelling public. The local sex partners' health, and their impact on their communities' health, seem far less acknowledged. This paper describes a local health education session which implemented recommendations based on a study in Cuzco/Peru on tourists' and locals' views, knowledge, attitudes and experiences relating to sexual relationships between them. On location, fifteen discotheque employees received a health education session at the establishment's owner's request. Concluding from the positive experience, it is argued that researchers should, where possible, respond to requests to deliver ad hoc health education sessions while on location to address an identified local health need.